I´m not trying to wake this thread up again. I just want to say what I know before I forget.
When I tried to find the COPO Chevelle “The Convincer II” a few years ago I found out some things that should be known to everyone in case it is being sold in the future.
While searching for it I talked in person, or by phone, or by e-mail with three of the owners in Sweden. The first, the second, and the current owner. And I talked to a friend of another of the owners. I also talked to Joe Spino in N.J, who built the race engine for the Convincer II.
This is what I found out: The engine and transmission was not in the car when it was shipped to Sweden. And since the internals in the rearend had been substituted earlier, the rearendhousing would be the only part of the original drivetrain that COULD have come with the car.
Since the Convincer was imported to be used as a dragracecar, customs fee was not paid to the amount that it could be titled over here. When one of the owners at one point wanted to drive it in the streets, he borrowed a tag from another Chevelle and put it on the Convincer. When the police saw him coming down the street they pulled him in and told him never to use it like that again, or…. Luckily for him, they didn´t find out about the tag-situation. The strange thing is that he told me he had used the TrimTag from the other car since that Chevelle was titled using the bodynumber. I have seen the entire list of VIN´s from the 67-69 Camaro´s in Sweden and some of those are also titled using the bodynumber. So maybe that was the case with the Chevelle also. Anyway, this would mean that the TT was taken off the car and then put back on again.
Some years later another owner who also wanted to drive it in the streets pulled the VINtag and installed a tag from a very early 1969 Chevelle. That car was built in August 1968, long before the COPO Chevelles were built. This is a pity since everyone tells me about the beautiful body this cars had/has. I don´t think the hidden VIN´s has been tampered with but I can´t say for sure since I haven´t been given the chance to inspect it. The current owner knows about the tags being switched since I have told him about it. In Sweden this COPO has been called “the Convincer” but also “the Yenko Chevelle”
I have been told that the original hood was sold in the 80´s, but have not heard about any other bodyparts being sold off.
