L72/L78/COPO production dates?

[William]

The USCC was doing a 1970 registry and had some info in The Camaro Corral magazine. I recall one car with a Dec '69 build; a few January dates also. Probably Pilot cars.

The official reason given for the late intro was the '70 was originally slated to be a '71; Chevy moved it up 6 months. I think it was John Z who stated the car was always going to be a '70 model introduced with the rest of the line. The pilot quarter panel stampings fit so poorly the tooling had to be scrapped and re-done, delaying the car.