COPO Camaro from Mac's

[William]

Yep, ducted hoods and no engine emblems. Actually, 9 COPOs if we count ZL1 #22 N609690. I guess what remains of it is buildable.

L72 COPO survival is about 1/2 of the 997 built. Still a bunch around, built up as Z/28s or street machines. Noticed one on ebay last summer; a bud picked it up right. Axle still there. Saw a Le Mans blue Z/28 at SC-Indy 2001 with a repro X33D80 body tag. If they copied the body number from the original tag correctly, it was likely a Glockner Chev COPO.

ZL1s are doing much better. Now at 50 surviving cars with the recent addition of #45. Fairly certain at least 4 others still exist.

[Vern B]

Originally Posted by William

Yep, ducted hoods and no engine emblems. Actually, 9 COPOs if we count ZL1 #22 N609690. I guess what remains of it is buildable.

L72 COPO survival is about 1/2 of the 997 built. Still a bunch around, built up as Z/28s or street machines. Noticed one on ebay last summer; a bud picked it up right. Axle still there. Saw a Le Mans blue Z/28 at SC-Indy 2001 with a repro X33D80 body tag. If they copied the body number from the original tag correctly, it was likely a Glockner Chev COPO.

ZL1s are doing much better. Now at 50 surviving cars with the recent addition of #45. Fairly certain at least 4 others still exist.

So someone turned a Glockner COPO into a cloned Z28?

My buddy has a Glockner COPO, wait until I tell him that story. 🤬

[Unreal]

Originally Posted by Vern B

So someone turned a Glockner COPO into a cloned Z28?

My buddy has a Glockner COPO, wait until I tell him that story. 🤬

There was a COPO found somewhere around Atlanta, about 15-20 years ago. It was badged and painted as a Z, and the guy who bought it did not know what it was, until someone clued him in. I think it still had some big block stuff on it- maybe heater box, can't remember. Then he checked the rear, and it was a BE.

[Vern B]

Originally Posted by Unreal

There was a COPO found somewhere around Atlanta, about 15-20 years ago. It was badged and painted as a Z, and the guy who bought it did not know what it was, until someone clued him in. I think it still had some big block stuff on it- maybe heater box, can't remember. Then he checked the rear, and it was a BE.

Sounds like my friends Glockner COPO. It was badged as a Z28 with engine and trans gone, but had all the indicators of a COPO. I was looking thru the COPO chapter in McNeish’s Z28 book one day and there was a bunch of trim tag pictures. One of them was from a Glockner COPO one number away from my friends. If I remember right there’s three Glockner COPO’s with sequential numbers and could be more.

[R68GTO]

Mine just had the Z-stripes, still retained the bowtie badging. Was being used as a street machine from 1978 until I bought it in 2018. I wasn't even sure I bought a COPO until I consulted folks on this site with my suspicions.