70 COPO

[owners2]

What if someone was selling copo 9796 end caps on e-bay , How would you know? How exactly can anybody tell the differance from the first run of end caps that were made for copo cars as opposed to the end caps for the 71 cars & newer? Thanks Jeff

[owners2]

O.K. guy's,somebody has to know what the differance is between the first run of COPO end caps as opposed to when the end caps where re-tooled & revised.What is the specific differance?If there was a first run of 500 shouldn't they have a differant part # or possibly something changed that is reconizably differant.You surely wouldn't make new tooling & not have anything differant(mounting perch heights or widths ?).How would you know if you were looking at copo end caps? Hey Phil,help me out & tell me what to look for , thanks Jeff

[CamarosRus]

Hello to ALL my 2nd Gen friends, This COPO spoiler end piece issue is obviously a very obscure, rare subject. Phil B. in my thinking is the most known 70 COPO authority in the world. Jeff C.(owners2) from N.C. has many 71 Camaros with three piece spoilers, and has been trying to research the heck out it.
Up until recent times, I had never heard of the existance of two different varities of spoiler ends 1) those that were used on REAL 1970 COPO Camaros and 2) those that were used on all other 3pc Spoliers from 71-73.
In so far as (Carlisle) judging how will WE ever be able to tell a REAL 70 COPO apart from a cloned COPO w/o seeing a build sheet.........and Norwwod COPO's like Phils' didnt come with buildsheets.
I sincerely hope Phil, Jeff or someone can shed some much needed light on a very difficult hard to research group of parts...........

[RamAirDave]

My 70 RS Z is a fairly original car. 58K miles, all the #s I've checked line out (except for wp, which was early for the car), and the engine is still on the original GM build. No paper, though. 4.10 posi/TH400, never tracked it, but g-teched at 5.7 and 14.5. Figure thats pretty close to what a dead stocker should run.

Had a "quickie resto" (paint and blacked undercarriage), I'm guessing sometime during the mid 80s or so.

Can see where the car had the tall spoiler at one time. I briefly talked to Phil at SCR8, and being an 04A car it's too early to be a COPO spoiler car. Thought it was kind of interesting that it started life as a short spoiler car, then had a tall spoiler, then back to the short again.

Not saying that that happening would be out of the question by any means, I just guess whoever owned it at the time of the repaint didnt like the tall spoiler.

dave