Daytona Yellow 69 Camaro

[Carleen]

I remember a Black Copo 9561 from Baldwin Chevrolet, (Team Camaro, I think it was) and there was a Silver 9561 (no Endura bumper) here on Yenko.net 5 years ago.
Was this early in the COPO ordering so Baldwin Chevrolet have to Order 10 of them?

[Carleen]

https://www.camaros.net/forums/29-fo...tion-sale.html

It wasint Black. 69-69 and its the 124379N620192

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by Carleen

https://www.camaros.net/forums/29-fo...tion-sale.html

It wasint Black. 69-69 and its the 124379N620192

I remember that car being for sale. No docs unfortunately, but a solid story. As far as Baldwin being unaware of the COPO program, I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I hope this yellow car turns out to be something special, sure seems like it might be - best of luck!

[JoeC]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I don’t see a lot of BS here
it was more difficult to get a COPO 427 then a SS396

Motion and Nickey both advertised their 1967 to 1969 Camaro conversions as
“SS 427 Camaros” and didn’t use the COPO 427s.
They seemed to have used the same plan from 1967 to 1969

Scuncio Chev sold COPO 427s and did 427 conversions

In the Fred Gibb interview 1991, he was asked about the COPO L72 Camaros and he said
“ We sold a few, but we did one or two change overs a week on our own. “

Dick Harrell had COPO 427 cars but also did 427 conversions

Nickey did 2 1969 Z/28 to 427 conversions according to the info on this L88 Z/28
http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/...yZ28/index.htm

[L78M22Rag]

Originally Posted by JoeC

I don’t see a lot of BS here
it was more difficult to get a COPO 427 then a SS396

Motion and Nickey both advertised their 1967 to 1969 Camaro conversions as
“SS 427 Camaros” and didn’t use the COPO 427s.
They seemed to have used the same plan from 1967 to 1969

Scuncio Chev sold COPO 427s and did 427 conversions

In the Fred Gibb interview 1991, he was asked about the COPO L72 Camaros and he said
“ We sold a few, but we did one or two change overs a week on our own. “

Dick Harrell had COPO 427 cars but also did 427 conversions

Nickey did 2 1969 Z/28 to 427 conversions according to the info on this L88 Z/28
http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/...yZ28/index.htm

I'd like to add that Mel Perry at Norwood Motors in Rhode Island also had COPO 427 cars and did 427 and L88 conversions.

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by JoeC

I don’t see a lot of BS here
it was more difficult to get a COPO 427 then a SS396

Motion and Nickey both advertised their 1967 to 1969 Camaro conversions as
“SS 427 Camaros” and didn’t use the COPO 427s.
They seemed to have used the same plan from 1967 to 1969

Scuncio Chev sold COPO 427s and did 427 conversions

In the Fred Gibb interview 1991, he was asked about the COPO L72 Camaros and he said
“ We sold a few, but we did one or two change overs a week on our own. “

Dick Harrell had COPO 427 cars but also did 427 conversions

Nickey did 2 1969 Z/28 to 427 conversions according to the info on this L88 Z/28
http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/...yZ28/index.htm

All dwarfed by Motion's book of business. Nope, not buying the "we never knew about it" line.

[Carleen]

It seems like Kurt Sonen knows about more Baldwin COPOs

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1044089

[JoeC]

In the 1991 interview with Dale Berger jr he said they ordered 50 COPO L72 Camaros and 10 L72 Chevelles and thinks they sold 40 to 50 Camaros L72.

Yenko had about 198 L72 Camaros and 99 L72 Chevelles.

The next highest number I recall is 20 Camaro L72 sold.

Many say they just remember “a few” sold.



I used to buy parts from Jerry Roberts, the parts manager from Byrne Brothers Chevy in NY.
They sold Yenkos, COPO L72 Camaros and Chevelles. He did not remember how many they sold but said they had at least a few of each. He remembered lots of 1969 Z/28 ‘s as he bought a new one and said they had truck loads of them and at one time they averaged one a day sold.

[camarojoe]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

I remember that car being for sale. No docs unfortunately, but a solid story. As far as Baldwin being unaware of the COPO program, I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I hope this yellow car turns out to be something special, sure seems like it might be - best of luck!

Totally agree with this.

[JoeC]

It would be interesting to talk to Joel and Marty about the relationship with the Baldwin Auto Dealership.

They worked together to sell the SS427 cars but at the same time Baldwin sold their own SS350 SS396 and Z/28 cars. Baldwin also had a parts department that sold hi po parts.
They didn't do a lot of national advertising like Motion did.

Baldwin Chevrolet and Motion Performance were both painted on the drag cars as sponsors

Baldwin may have just sold the COPO 427 cars on their own.