COPO Camaro from Mac's
 

Hey guys, thanks for the add! i'm currently restoring a 9561 69 COPO Camaro for a customer. The car was shipped to Mac's originally according to NCRS data and I was hoping to get some history/info/pics regarding the dealership. i can't even find the address. This car was shipped to Mac's but i've talked to the original owner who says he bought it in Lincoln, NE. There were two dealerships in Lincoln....Misle and DuTeau...he doesn't recall which dealership it was. ANY info -especially photos- of Mac's, Misle, or DuTeau that anyone may have would be greatly appreciated.

I hope the VIN is not 124379N601701.

MACS CHEVROLET-OLDS
223-25 W 13TH ST
CRETE NEBRASKA

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthre...highlight=Macs

No, sir

What color and build date is it? Not many came thru Mac's.
Thanks!

Only the black/auto COPO at the right end ls known to exist.

Bill,
Thanks! I forgot about that pic!

Kool pic, all COPOs and one Z28?

FYI..............

https://www.camaros.net/threads/vint...icture.201219/

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.

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Looking forward to hearing more about your Copo Jeremy, welcome aboard!
According to the linked Camaros.net thread, the Silver ZL1 is in the picture background?
Looks like a '69 Camaro behind the Red Pickup between a '69 Toro and a Cutlass?:hmmm:
:beers:
~ Pete

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Kurt S. car is Garnet Red, white vinyl top, red deluxe interior. it spent it's only 8 years on the road in SE Colorado until it was wrecked in or around 1977. It has been indoors ever since. still has all the original drivetrain... the water pump and starter have been replaced, the smog pump was removed, other than that it's all original. i think even most of the exhaust is original

Very Kool, keep the pictures coming!

What color pinstripe was on the car....white ? Seeing that it’s an X11 car.

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This showed up on FB yesterday

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Copo Cartel white pinstripes

Do you know what town in Colorado this car came out of?

Vortecpro the car was bought new in Lincoln Nebraska and then was traded in on a new Torino at a ford dealer in Littleton, CO and then was purchased by a guy from Ordway, CO and was driven in the Ordway/Rocky Ford/La Junta area until being purchased in/around 1985 and put into storage in Scott City Kansas

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.

In my travels I have found drag racers don't much care what their car was originally. A few years ago a bud was contacted to examine a race car, owner had it almost 20 years. How he could have not known it was a ZL1 is hard to imagine, as the VIN tag was untouched. Race car since new, probably never registered. Many don't have any tags.

I believe there is a '69 Yenko Camaro drag car, still being raced out of the Chicago area. They know and don't care.

I found a COPO out here a couple years ago. The owner keeps hinting to me at selling but hasn't pulled the trigger yet. It's an X44 that is dollied up like a Z. He drives it around on a regular basis and we talk occasionally. Found the car in a backyard in Phoenix with no engine/trans. Has a BE rear dated to the car, factory muncie hole and ZL2 hole in the firewall.
He installed a small block and muncie 4 speed, painted the car up to look like a Z and has fun with it.

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.

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.

Thanks Jeremy, I always wondered if there was any rare cars in that area (Rocky Ford).

I saw a post on a drag racing forum where a guy said he knew the owner of ZL1 #22. It was bought from Mac's with a 375 hp 396. The guy raced it with the L78. He said the engine was put in a Corvette race car and was blown up, then the engine was sitting in the showroom of Mac's Chevy on display. I don't know it the story is true but he posted these pics.

I checked the CRG ZL1 list on #22 and it shows a silver car from Mac's

Al McNamara was the proprietor of Mac''s Chevrolet / Oldsmobile in Crete, Nebraska.

sometimes you can find some of the old employees

here is another Mac's Camaro

http://twubs.com/69MacsCamaro/members