Fred Eichhorst's COPO Camaro

[Born30YrsLate]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scuncio</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My wife and I made it to MCACN on Saturday afternoon and really enjoyed the &quot;found as-is&quot; and Survivor displays. Among the restored cars, I have to say Fred's COPO was just stunning. Fred, where did you ever find this car? </div></div>

Hey Tony...thanks for the public props on my COPO! I’ll give the short version here and give more detail in the write-up for a feature car. As far as finding this car I'll have to give that credit to Doug Perry. The car spent its entire life around the Columbus, OH area until I bought it from him not quite three years ago. In fact it was at the first MCACN show in 2009 that I first talked to Doug about this car as I was on the hunt for a Supercar/COPO...the stars aligned and it ended up in Wisconsin. A special thanks to Schoenthaler Restorations (Deuce Heaven) for bringing this unique piece to what it is today as well as to Doug for his continued involvement in the details of restoring this car. I originally intended on restoring this car to “as delivered” specs due to it being so unique, but halfway through the restoration I made the decision to go Day2 and give this unique car a personality as well and built it the way I would have done it if I owned the car back in the day. I had been collecting Day2 parts for the last 12 years or so and had a pretty good inventory in the basement…back in the day they would have called it “throwing the book at it” in this case I “threw the basement at it”. A good number of NOS and Mint Day2 period correct parts ended up on this car…to notice them all you need to look over every inch of the car.
NMW tow tabs (originally yellow) with original pins
Flex-a-Lite Orange Fiberglass fan
Stellings Fly-eye air cleaner
Cyclone Headers (individual port) painted VHT white
Cal Custom finned Aluminum Valve Covers
Holley Spark Plugs
Thrush Glasspack Mufflers
Lakewood Long-tail Slapper Bars (almost installed NOS Yellow NMW ladder bars)
Ansen Sprint Rims, polished, with Aluminum center caps (15x7” front 15x7.5” rear)
Cure Ride Hi-Perf Spiral Shocks at all four corners
Sun Greenline Gauges, 2-5/8”, Water Temp, Oil Pressure, Ammeter
Hurst Black Velvet T-handle
CARS Magazine decal on rear quarter window.
SS550 Spark Plug wire
Tires a reproduction bias-ply (F70 front, L60 rear)
Also have a Mallory ignition set-up ready for install (YC-310hp distributor, Blaster II coil and Orange Mallory 7mm ignition wire) but couldn’t figure out installation of the coil &amp; ballast resistor without drilling new holes in the firewall soon enough before the show. And have a period correct Hurst Competition Plus shifter that could be installed (car currently has the factory Hurst Shifter set-up installed).
And yes, the Pabst case is date-code correct, manufactured in 8/69.

I should be able to post some pics for everyone’s viewing pleasure. I never even thought of taking my own pics of the car at the show, I was just too happy to see the finished product in person! It was great talking with everyone at the show, I wish I could have been there the entire weekend and talked to more people!

[Xplantdad]

Cool Fred...can't wait for the feature [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[scuncio]

Thanks for the history Fred! What an awesome car.

[Born30YrsLate]

X44 car, 09D build date, rear antenna, deluxe yellow houndstooth interior with standard seatbelts, factory tach and center fuel gage but no center console.

[Born30YrsLate]

[hvychev]

Cool frickin car, man, is that different! Fred, I really dig the Sun greenlines. They're almost &quot;regional&quot; for where your car now resides since they were made over the border here in Chicago. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[kwhizz]

This car is a must to see to appreciate the efforts of all involved in the restoration....It's just as it would have been back in the day.......Fred's attention to detail and using the correct day 2 parts is second to none.....and the assembly and Paint work by Schoney and Joe is out of this world......this is one of the straightest Black cars in the world......Great Job Schoentalter Restorations...........and great vision to Fred and Laurie to see this thru to completion.........Great Job Guy's!!!!!

[bergy]

Great car Fred - thanks for letting us see it at MCACN!

[m22mike]

Fred
I can't believe I missed you at the MCACN, But I sure didn't miss your car. I think you made the correct decision to go day two with it. Like you said, now it has a personality.
Very cool.

Mike

[DarrenX33]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m22mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Fred
I can't believe I missed you at the MCACN, But I sure didn't miss your car. I think you made the correct decision to go day two with it. Like you said, now it has a personality.
Very cool.

Mike </div></div>

You missed Fred. How the heck did I miss you???