Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

I was at the Car Craft summer nationals here in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN last weekend and had a great time checking out some nice Detroit Muscle when all of a sudden this beauty caught my eye and I had to check it out. I beleive it to be the same car as above with dog dish wheels on it. It had the Dale dealer emblem on the tail pan as well. I would have to imagine that this is probably a 1 of 1 type of car with the yellow houndstooth interior in a COPO. Either way it was a great looking car and I really enjoyed checking it out. Here are a few pictures for you guys to [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/drool.gif[/img] over. I hope that you guys enjoy these pictures.

Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

Dale also sold an orange/orange automatic COPO; I worked with the original owner. Do not know if it still exists.

Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

Didn't they have dealer installed Black Z28 stripes and were marketed as Dale Dusters?

Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

The yellow COPO in the photos had Z/28 stripes added at Dale before delivery; do not know about &quot;Dale Duster&quot; ID.

BTW both of these were very slow to sell. The yellow car sold Dec '69; orange auto spring '70.

Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

With the Canadian yellow/yellow COPO and the Dale yellow/yellow COPO that makes 2 known yellow/yellow COPOs...?...or did I miss something.

Re: Orange/Orange RS COPO
 

Who knows?

There were 1,015 L72 Camaro engines shipped from Tonowanda. Lets say 90% were installed in cars; a bit over 900. There is much known about COPOs delivered to Yenko, Berger, Scuncio, Jack Douglass, Emmert, Canada. Of the 6,000+ Chevy dealers in '69 this is a small group. No matter how you add it up they account for maybe 500 cars. That leaves 400+ L72 Camaros we know nothing about. We continue to mash the same data.

Despite the attention given some of these dealers, many only had a few COPOs. Dale is a good example; from what I have pieced together they had 6 L72 Camaros. At least one of them [Rallye Green] became a full-time race car and is probably lost in time. Two others are not known to exist.

Plenty left to learn about COPO Camaros.

Dale also had orange/orange and yellow/yellow JL-8 Z/28s. I briefly owned the orange car. A friend had the yellow one, also an RS with black vinyl. Both still around somewhere.