Re: Car Search Info
TXYenko,
Once (if you do) you receive paperwork, please let us know who the ordering dealer was. Maybe, just maybe, it will be a Courtesy Chevrolet car.
bkhpa/JoeC/CharleyL,
I have been developing some thoughts, that need to be either confirmed, substantiated, or debunked, regarding Harrell COPO orders.
It is known Dick Harrell had a number of Chevrolet dealers willing to go to bat for him over the years. As of this time, little is known about the "missing" COPO's, which appear to have been up to 1/2(?) of all COPO's made in 1969. I think Dick Harrell may have had something to do with many COPO orders in the Southwest. Early in his career he was associated with Gateway Chev. in New Mexico, and Bill Thomas in California. We also know he had Courtesy Chevrolet as his main southwest sponsor for his Performance Center network (AZ, CA). Has anyone made a tally of the current known COPO orders vs the total assumed made, such as from the Tonowanda plant records?
Are a substantial portion of the missing COPO's to be found in the southwest? Are these COPO's to be found around regions that had National drag events, such as Beeline in AZ or GreenValley in TX or Lions in CA? Are beat-up old drag cars a viable source of future COPO restoration projects, if they can be documented as a COPO in some fashion?
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