Would this car be considerd a COPO

[Belair62]

What functions did you perform Keith ? Very interesting stuff..I have an Oshawa 63 Belair

[Kurt S]

http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml

Keith,
John discusses the change to an integrated plant a little in the first few paragraphs and has posted about that in the past (on camaros.net and on CRG). From what I know, plant setup depended on when you worked there and what division ran the plant. The divided plant was incredibly inefficient.

[Chevy454]

There's a few posts around here with info from Moparts' dad who worked at the St. Louis plant...Fisher body did from the firewall back, then passed the car through a wall to Chevrolet who took it from there. Pretty wild...

[Kim_Howie]

OK My 67 Yenko on the trim tag has 4FK - I started asking about the dash. Nobody knows for sure. I know of 3 67's 375 non Yenko cars that don't have the dash. I know of 3 67 Yenko's that have the dash. I also know of 2 that don't.Yenko I think had ordered several 67's 375 cars at one time. This I think were a fleet order, They have the dashs on them that's all it is not a COPO order. COPO is away to order cars not offered under RPO #s in other words not all dealers could get them. I hope this helps. Kim

[Steve Shauger]

That my understanding as well.

[Charley Lillard]

My friends 67 Yenko has the dash ans also has a 1/2" sway bar

[Kim_Howie]

I bet the car was converted at DH shop.

[Keith Tedford]

I worked in the car plant as a tool and die maker from 1976-1983. The west end of the plant had the "A body" body shop and general assembly for Chevelle and Monte Carlo. The east end was for the full sized "B body" Chev and Pontiac. There was a separate Chassis plant as well where the chassis and drive train were assembled and married to the body. In the '60s they built Chev, Pontiac, Olds, and Buick. Now that would have been a tooling nightmare that I wasn't around to see. They even had a small Corvair line at one time. In the '60s, when it would have been interesting, I was in the up town stamping plant learning how to be a tool and die maker. Every year we built a full set of hood and fender dies for the full sized Chev and Pontiac. That ended in about 1970 when model changes became a matter of grille and tail light changes. The body metal basically stayed the same until the 1977 model change. After the year's production run, the dies were greased up and stored in an outdoor compound. Periodically, dies would be brought back into the plant and runs of earlier model fenders would be run on weekends to suppply the GM warehouses. Once the dies weren't needed any more, apprentices, along with a crane operator, were sent out to the field to strip the dies and bring the die shoes in for re-use. How things have changed. Now the dies are just as apt to be built half the way around the world.