COPO Camaro pick from FB (was wrecked years ago)
 

pic attached

It was deleted from Facebook.

Pic & text from Pro Stock John.
"Car has been discussed before,it's in Colorado I think? I had not seen this pic of it in the wrecked state."

sent thanks

That damage is not all that bad to let it sit for years. Mostly just sheet metal and maybe a little rack pull on the hinge pillar...:frown:

Yeah I've seen comments on this car before, the person who posted on FB said they were going to finally fix it.

Mac’s Chevrolet COPO

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthre...light=Colorado

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Thanks Stef, I was just going to post that same link.
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~ Pete

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Whatever gave those guys the idea to lay on the ground for that pic? Just plain nutty.

there was also a wrecked ZL-1 #69

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Is it known if the subject car is the one on the left in the Mac's 'layout' pic?
As past threads, the Black 9561 M40 is known existing also it may be the Mac's delivered ZL1 in this same picture on the other side of the Toro behind the Red C10 w/ topper @ left?
Looking forward to more on this one!
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~ Pete

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Can someone find out if they are still around ?

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It's like an earlier version of the timeless art of seduction, Chevy style?:hmmm:
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~ Pete

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George is probably wearing sandals along with the black socks :tongue:

even Bill Jenkins did one

Weird to see that even a ZL-1 as a faked Z/28!
Buddy

The car is currently at Big Creek Restoration in Ellis, Ks. I am the one who posted the pic of the red COPO on FB and have posted about it here as well. It is not my car but I am doing the restoration. The car was shipped to Mac's in Crete, Nebraska and sold new in Lincoln, NE to a spray plane pilot who later took it to his native Colorado. He owned the car for about a year and a half before trading it at a Ford dealership in Littleton, CO on a new Torino. From there it was passed down between 3 brothers in the La Hunta, Colorado area when the latter brother sideswiped a tree. The car was then put in a small shed until it was purchased in or around 1985 by a Chevy dealership owner/drag racer in Kansas who planned on fixing the damage and racing it but never got around to it. The car has 29,xxx actual miles and is very original other than the starter, water pump, heater hoses , spark plugs and wires. It even had it's original exhaust.

Jeremy,

Do you have any undercarriage pictures of the original exhaust system? Did the car have resonators?

- Warren

no resonators, i have hundreds of pics of this car but only a few on my phone and i'm not sure how to post them from the desktop

A few pics.

Yeah I saw your pic on FB, great to see a car like this finally get restored.

A few progress pics

So was the pinion yoke on this car painted black or natural steel originally?

Are there any stripes still visible on the driveshaft?

yoke was raw cast iron. driveshaft bare with orange, brown/tan, and purple/blue stripes from front to back and the u joints lined up with each other.

I look forward to watching the progress on this car. The other known COPO Camaro from Mac's is N661680 and body number NOR362851. Is this car close to that?

No, not close at all

My March build, Muncie COPO driveshaft, also has inline trunnions.

- Warren

I have never seen the paint marks on the pig, does anyone know what each one signifies?

Driveshaft
 

Thanks Warren I sent you a message.

I have never seen paint marks like that before, but if those were out there because the original had them, could be to make sure line workers knew it was special? I really don’t know.

I found similar markings on my BE rear, though the stripes were front to back vs side to side. Also saw similar on a 9,000 mile unrestored COPO at Goodguys in 2019. First photo is from unrestored car, next are what I found on mine, third is my attempt at recreating the stripes.

Wouldn't those yellow markings on the pig,have originally been applied underneath the black overcoat?

Yes, I believe that is correct. I actually painted the black, added the yellow, then top-coated black over the yellow. I then took acetone on a rag and removed some of the black to let the yellow show through. Obviously not 100% correct, just my attempt at duplicating the look.

i'm working with a 69 camaro expert on this car who's name I will not mention as I do not want to drag him into any potential internet arguments. I asked him that same question. He told me to put the inspection marks OVER the black paint. he did not give a specific reasoning for it and it was impossible to tell on this axle wether they were under any black paint or wether it was on top of the black paint.

FWIW, I did not find any black paint under the yellow when I carefully stripped mine down. Once I got through the yellow, it was bare cast.

That's what I've witnessed on many as well.