Brents 1969 Hugger Orange Copo Found ?

[Kurt S]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m22mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Interesting that my black car is BDY 322433 and my vin# is only 27 after yours, most likely built very close together on the same shift.
Also note your bdy # 292934 is quit a bit lower than mine.
only thing that means is your body shell may have spent some time in the body bank with others waiting for all the good stuff to show up, and/or they were batched with other COPO's
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They were just a few cars apart on the line.
The low body # means the order was accepted but didn't get scheduled (and hence built) until several weeks later.

[m22mike]

Kurt
What do you know about the 05A run, more that a 7 day period ?
Over the years it seems like many of the Camaro's I see are 05A built.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[jannes_z-28]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m22mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kurt
What do you know about the 05A run, more that a 7 day period ?
Over the years it seems like many of the Camaro's I see are 05A built.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] </div></div>

In may they reconfigured the Norwood plant for the Firebird production that started in the second half of May.

That is also the reason for the introduction of the D80 code on the trimtags, to separate the trunklids due to different holes for the spoilers. D80 made sure that a Camaro got a Camaro trunklid.

BTW there are no (or very few) 05B cars. And that might be the reason we see so many 05A cars.

Jan

[brent396]

The rear is not orginal to the car .When i talked to the owner who had it in 78 he said he pulled the 12bolt out and tub it and put a dana in it. How does it work. My body number seems very early before the build date on the trim tag. By looking at other trim tags .Is it because it was order early to be built then wait for copo parts then go on the line to be done.If so my x44 plain jane car didnt even come with a radio. It was as base it could get so i dont know why it would be waiting for anything .I know Mike talked about it because of his car body number is diffrent than mine .Does this put the nail in the coffin for being a copo car

[m22mike]

Brent
Again, it is very common to see a larger spread in BDY #&quot; vs Vin#'s when compared to other COPO Camaros. It was common practice to hold a batch of these special cars in the body bank untill all the special components were on hand to run these cars with any hold up in production.
They may have been waiting on BE's, double COPO stuff, or even built up 427's ?? These were little used items when comapred to the rest of the Camaro production.
If you study the spread between BDY#'s and Vin#'s on your average 6 cyl/ and or low HP V8 cars, which there were hundreds built each day, there is not that large of a diff in the spread of the two #'s. Basically because the components to built these cars were more common to these basic drivers and the inventory levels were high enough based on the larger number of orders place by dealers to keep the lines running on schedule.

[brent396]

Thanks Mike [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[COPO_Anders]

When I had bought my COPO years ago someone told me that the X44D80 combination on the trimtag was a good indicator (not proof) of a 427 Camaro, just because so few base-cars were ordered with the rear spoiler.
If your trunklid is original to the car (check the datecode on it and if it has the right color underneath)and if the spoiler was put on at the factory (check the holes), then that would be a good indicator of 427 car. Especially combined with the hole in the firewall for the wiring to a Special Ducted Hood.
But still not proof of course.

[Kurt S]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m22mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kurt
What do you know about the 05A run, more that a 7 day period ?
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Looks like between 7-8 days of production. So not really that different than some other weeks.

[brent396]

Found out new info .My car was a Dyno Motion car that ran Super Stock Class when it was new.The shop was located in suitland maryland the car then was hugger Orange and had the name Dyno Motion on the door of the car .It raced on the east coast tracks there was 2 owners one is Jim Deakins he drove the car .Any pictures or info on it let me know thanks Brent [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[Plowman]

Congratulations Brents