Would this car be considerd a COPO

[Charley Lillard]

My friends 67 Yenko has the dash ans also has a 1/2" sway bar

[Keith Tedford]

I worked in the car plant as a tool and die maker from 1976-1983. The west end of the plant had the "A body" body shop and general assembly for Chevelle and Monte Carlo. The east end was for the full sized "B body" Chev and Pontiac. There was a separate Chassis plant as well where the chassis and drive train were assembled and married to the body. In the '60s they built Chev, Pontiac, Olds, and Buick. Now that would have been a tooling nightmare that I wasn't around to see. They even had a small Corvair line at one time. In the '60s, when it would have been interesting, I was in the up town stamping plant learning how to be a tool and die maker. Every year we built a full set of hood and fender dies for the full sized Chev and Pontiac. That ended in about 1970 when model changes became a matter of grille and tail light changes. The body metal basically stayed the same until the 1977 model change. After the year's production run, the dies were greased up and stored in an outdoor compound. Periodically, dies would be brought back into the plant and runs of earlier model fenders would be run on weekends to suppply the GM warehouses. Once the dies weren't needed any more, apprentices, along with a crane operator, were sent out to the field to strip the dies and bring the die shoes in for re-use. How things have changed. Now the dies are just as apt to be built half the way around the world.

[Kim_Howie]

I bet the car was converted at DH shop.

[Belair62]

Got any pics of dies Keith ?

[Pacecarjeff]

This is a Zedder quote from not too long ago;
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Man, you really are a rocket scientist aren't you

Don't waste your breath trying to reason with him.

Also, to clear up some misinformation he provided in this thread, the 80055 GM Oshawa account was a Sales Promotion Account, not a "Show car" account. Over the years, this term has been used incorrectly by some at GM Vintage Services - especially in the early days when much of this information was just being figured out.

Pacecarjeff...please do not continue to contact me with your little games, I don't care about your "special car" or your "trim tag collection"

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I guess it didn't take as long as I thought for this big talker to be proved absolutly wrong.

All I can say McZedder is "I told you so", and keep watching for additional developments.

Guess I was right about the blue stripe thing too.

[Pacecarjeff]

Here is how GM of Canada OFFICIALLY describes Special order #80055

"Just an update from Vintage Vehicle Services. 80055 is not a Zone Office account, there was no zone office in Oshawa, Ontario, this was head office. Zone offices were out in the field such as Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, etc. 80055 is a Show Car account used by the Sales Department for company show cars that were sent to new car shows to display our products. These cars were usually heavily optioned so that customers could see a wide variety of features on the vehicles, but not always. I am just a newbie here but thought I should clear up a few misconceptions."