emmert chevrolet rs double copo

[jaybird]

home in the garage.this car has never been shown. it was purchased in in the late 70s' tottaly disassembled and the owner has never shown it. it didn't recieve that paint job until 1990 and that was before we new that it was even a copo all he new was he wanted a big block car to go with his z-28. i stumbled on to the P-O-P around 1992 when i opened the glove box and it was with the owners manual in plastic. if we new what it was we would have put it back to original color. he new it had paint delete in the tag so he figured what was the difference in the color it got painted. if only we new back then what we know now.this car has never been rusted or cut apart it was just assembled and painted.It even retains its original headlight vacum hoses and check valves although we did buy one of those rebuild kits for the headlight doors because some of the nylon bushings were broke. this car has an am radio with the original oval antenna. i think the only 2 parts it does not have is the reverse rod to activate the back up lights and the retainer for the clutch spring that goes on the exhaust manifold flange. Jim from heartbeat city remakes a good looking reverse rod but we have never goten around to getting one.

[68l30]

What I'm trying to say is...... I'm wondering if this is the same car I saw the window sticker for. I never saw a car. The guy that showed it to me never saw the car. It was sold by his friend in the 70's..I know Emmert sold some weird cars, but Two RS Double COPOS w/ spec paint? I think all he wanted to know is if it still existed.


BIG

[jaybird]

this car was that pontiac green originaly and is a X22 with 713 interior.i think the guy who owned first might have had something to do with Gratiot auto parts? probably a different car. when i spoke with Jim Mattison he said that he ordered to many of those cars to remember each one exclusively

[68l30]

Wow, different car. I did send him to talk with Mattison, not sure if he made contact with him or not. I've always heard Emmert sold some cool cars and it looks like two were RS Double COPO'S.


Big

[jaybird]

lets not forget that being in Detroit and so close to GM who knows what they could have came up with back in those days. Makes me wish i could go back and order a new one.what i would like to know is how come just over the last 25 or so years these cars are coming out of hideing.did we not no what these cars are? i was only 5 yrs old in 69 so i am to young to remember.Seems like people watch that Barret-Jackson and they think they have a piece of gold or something?the owner of this car is a used car dealer so to him it has just been another car that is till we did our homework in 1993 after we found that P-O-P in the glove box. he says that this coming summer he wants to take it to one of those shows? and let people pick it apart. we Know that it really needs to be taken apart again and detial every part with the correct paint and pencil markings etc. but bassicaly this is an unrestored just repainted car. it still has all the original parts (dash seats carpet even the original t-3 headlights from 1969)its praobably a piece of GM history.

[jaybird]

i checked the vin and it is definetly not the paperwork are vin is 591194

[jaybird]

afternearly three years of searching i finally found the original owner to the RS copo from Emmert chevrolet, he about s@%$t when i asked him if he bought a camaro in 1969. He currently lives in Dallas TX and was amazed that i found and called him. He is going to look and see if he has any paperwork or pictures from when he owned the car. I spoke with him for almost an hour as he did most of the talking. For you guys who have little or no info on the copos from Emmert he told me that they had about 7 or 8 sitting on the dealer floor and this one was the most appeling to him with the special pontiac firebird green paint and the houndstooth and rs double copo. it turns out his wifes aunt was the owners daughter and Jim Mattison was dating her. He also told me that he never had the car at the drag strip but used to street race it on Woodard ave. he said that after he bought the car he put in a Racer Brown camshaft and that made it run like a bat out of hell!!! I sent him the same pictures that i posted on this sight and he replied that he still has a son that lives close to us and when he comes in town next he would love to see the car and would LOVE to bt it back but its not for sale. what a christmas present that phone call was to him as i called him the day after christmas. i find it hard to believe that being Detriot and home of GM that no one has any info on the copos from Emmert

[mockingbird812]

Big Congrats! Way to persevere. Let us know what you come up with. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[bigsixman]

Just ran across this post on X22 COPO cars. My friend ran across a car in 1990 that was for sale locally and I went with him and verified that it was a COPO camaro. It is a X22,console,gauges,tint,
M40,9737,remote mirror,D80,black vinyl top,std black interior. It still has the BE rear, original M40, but the original motor was replaced. The original -- paint appeared to be verdoro green or some Cadillac firemist green of some kind. The car has been repainted a different color prior to him buying it. This car did not come from Emmert, but I wanted to mention that there are cars like this out there.

[Kurt S]

What's the build date? Or better yet, got a pic of the tag?
It can't be a Firemist paint - it required a special gun to shoot.