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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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.... it proves that a grouping of COPOs ordered by a single dealer may not have sequential body numbers. It is true that many are such as Yenko, Berger, Dale and others. It simply is not always true.....Ergo a Camaro that has a body number close to COPOs is not necessarily a COPO. A Camaro that has a body number no where near other COPOs could be a COPO.

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Ditto! This is exactly what I've found in my research as well. There are no absolutes.

[PeteLeathersac]

Using the Gibb cars example, are the units of the same color sequential by Body #...just thinking of the cars going through the paint process?.
Also, is it known if the scheduled units went down the line in order of Body #, Vin sequence or color groups...or neither?.
Lastly, I remember reading once how when '69 Copo 427 cars were first coming available that a minimum of 10 cars had to be ordered first by a dealer to 'join the club' then additional units of any quantity could be procured later by that same dealer code?. I don't recall if what I read specified 10 of each Copo type or an accumulative total of 9560, 9561's &/or the different Copo Chevelles?. Is this folklore, fact or any known mixed up version of some other true fact...Bob J. maybe?.

~ Pete

[William]

In the case of the Gibb ZL-1s all are in body number order by trans/color except Le Mans blue; automatics first, then the 4-speeds.

The first two ZL-1s built N569358 & N569359 are body #222002 & #222003 and are both Dusk Blue/automatic. #222001 is a Le Mans blue 4-speed. The car with the outlying body # is Le Mans blue 4-speed.

I also heard that dealers had to order a certain number of COPOs but the facts contradict that. Many of the non-Gibb ZL-1s were individually ordered by other dealers.

By the way the lowest ZL-1 body number is #211785, the #3 Berger car. It was ordered before Gibbs.

[ssl78]

The other white Douglass Yenko is one body number away from mine.