Re: Number of COPO 427 cars
The engines would be stamped at the engine plant with the TxxxxMP/MQ or CExxxxxxx. Any MP and MQ engines left over at the end of the production run just may have been scrapped. It would make a person cry at what went into railway cars when emptying out a plant for a major model change. An acquaintance here in the Oshawa plant remembered running SS wheels through a band saw for scrap. Engine blocks got holes hammered in the sides and the ends of the cranks torched off. Just obsolete stock that was cheaper to scrap than keep in stock.
You don't see this today because major model changes are so far and few between.
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Chevelleless after 46 years......but we did find a low mileage, six speed, silver 2005 Corvette. It will just have to do for now. 
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