[copo69]

Thanks for the Ed Stinn info... look forward to your scans.

Steve, I'm close to Charleston where Roger Dean was located. I remember lots of muscle Chevys at the time with Dean emblems. They sold 2 COPO Camaros that I know of. Both were silver, 4 speed cars and sold early. One went to Jim Minnick who was a former gas dragster national champ and had a large local speed shop. Car became a Pro Stocker but no one seems to know what happened to it. The other car was purchased and driven on the street. I started getting info on these cars and ran across it in early 1980 for sale. At the time knowledge of these cars was real fuzzy. I called lots of people but little knowledge was turned up. The guy wanted $3500. for the car but had it not turned out to be legit would have been an old Camaro worth less than half that amount. I went home to sleep on it and decided to take a chance. I called the guy to take the car and was informed he just sold it to an eighteen year old kid. The protecto plate was with the car and I had copied all the info and eventually ran down the original owner. It was legit. I tried to contact the buyer but he was now in the army and his dad told me he'd never sell that car. Only saw it one other time.... a couple of years later, met it blasting off from a stop light with smoke bellowing from the exhaust and kinda beat up. I guess it was just a hot rod to the kid. Thats my fishing story. There were several COPO Camaros in this area. I remeber a few years ago there were 5 here in a 25 mile radius. While that may not seem significant to some of you this is a sparsley populated area. One of them had a Olds motor in it hooked to the gooseneck radiator. Greg