[Steve Shauger]

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Sounds like he's talking about Jim Mattison's post a few years back about special paint cars.
Special paint isn't a COPO, though it also went thru the Central Office. COPO's required engineering, fleets and special paint didn't.

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That is a contridictory statement. If the order for special paint was ordered through the Central Office Production Order process then it IS a COPO car. I may not be what people have come to expect a COPO car is but that is only because of what certain people in the hobby have come to expect of a certain label. There were lots of different reasons for and order to go through the central office rather than the normal dealer order process.

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Let's not make it into something it is not. The central office had many functions. Special paint was not a Central Office Production Order. There is no need to generalize the term to make it fit anything the central office was involved in. Also let's face it, the owner of the car is attempting to use the term (falsely)to enhance the value of the car.

BTW this sites mission is:

"Dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Chevrolet dealer built Supercars and COPO cars".

I don't believe we are trying to preserve Verdoro green paint on this site. Lets not continue to split hairs.