The Term "COPO"

[Kurt S]

I agree that the most popular use of the term 'COPO' is for hi-po cars. But a 396/325hp 4 door Chevelle built for the CHiP was also a COPO as was a fleet of cars with trailer hitches.
Realize and accept that the COPO term encompasses more that just hi-po's. COPO was any order that required some engineering/thought as to how to build it and wasn't handled by the RPO system. As Jim states, hi-po's were just one aspect of the COPO system, but it is the reason the COPO system is now known about. Of course that opens the door for abuse of the term by taxi owners, but what can you do. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

As Jim also states and the limited documentation I've seen shows, the ordering of the special colors was not a COPO process. A more accurate statement is that special paint needed Central Office approval.

What throws the special paint nomenclature issue up in the air is when someone advertises a car as a COPO and it clearly says 'Spec Paint / COPO' on the buildsheet, I can't argue about them advertising it as a COPO. It may just have been the person who manually input the comments on that sheet at that one plant used the term. I still agree that the terms special paint and COPO don't go together. And it doesn't mean it's a desireable COPO. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]