68 COPO CAMARO EBAY?

[Kurt S]

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[Pulnaway]

What yr did the COPO process start? When GM built cars like the Blackwidow, would they have gone through the same channels?

[PeteLeathersac]

Good question on the '57 Widow cars as I believe the model year the Copo designation was first used was 1958?.

Also didn't SO in 'Copo & FSO' refer to Shop Order not Special Order?.


~ Pete

[MultiMopars]

Good info by Kurt S.

That answers my question about the paint order process which indicates a special order paint car is NOT a COP order.
Thanks

[talwell]

Even if a special paint car was truely a "COPO" car - that would not give it the value and collectible nature of the other COPO cars. There are many desirable things to the COPO cars that make them in demand with very high prices - it is just not the fact that they were required to be ordered via the COPO method.

[Steve Shauger]

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Good info by Kurt S.

That answers my question about the paint order process which indicates a special order paint car is NOT a COP order.
Thanks

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It also contradicts the incorrect statements you have made in this thread:

MultiMopars
"If the order for special paint was ordered through the Central Office Production Order process then it IS a COPO car. I may not be what people have come to expect a COPO car is but that is only because of what certain people in the hobby have come to expect of a certain label."

[MultiMopars]

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Good info by Kurt S.

That answers my question about the paint order process which indicates a special order paint car is NOT a COP order.
Thanks

[/ QUOTE ]


It also contradicts the incorrect statements you have made in this thread:

MultiMopars
" If the order for special paint was ordered through the Central Office Production Order process then it IS a COPO car. I may not be what people have come to expect a COPO car is but that is only because of what certain people in the hobby have come to expect of a certain label."

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Well, if you have read the posts I have made in this thread you will see that I was asking a question and the quote above is NOT a statemnt of fact but rather posed as a possibility of what would be IF the car was ordered through the COPO process for the paint.

Part of my point above has to do with the fact that many vehicles were ordered through the COPO process as indicated in Kurt's info that ARE COPO vehicles but hold no value TODAY because of it.

[Steve Shauger]

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Good info by Kurt S.

That answers my question about the paint order process which indicates a special order paint car is NOT a COP order.
Thanks

[/ QUOTE ]


It also contradicts the incorrect statements you have made in this thread:


MultiMopars
" If the order for special paint was ordered through the Central Office Production Order process then it IS a COPO car. I may not be what people have come to expect a COPO car is but that is only because of what certain people in the hobby have come to expect of a certain label."

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Well, if you have read the posts I have made in this thread you will see that I was asking a question and the quote above is NOT a statemnt of fact but rather posed as a possibility of what would be IF the car was ordered through the COPO process for the paint.

Part of my point above has to do with the fact that many vehicles were ordered through the COPO process as indicated in Kurt's info that ARE COPO vehicles but hold no value TODAY because of it.

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Another incorrect statement you made which was not "posed".
MultiMopars:
"Yes, that is just it.

It was an order that the dealer submitted through that office rather than on the standard order form.

The office assigned non-standard (not RPO) numbers. Different numbers to identify what you were ordering. The ones that everybody is familiar with are the performance ones used by Yenko and other dealers to get what we recognize as "COPO Camaros" etc."

Before you make absolute statements do your research. This site is about preserving the heritage of these cars accurately, not recklessly trying to rewriting it....

[old5.0]

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Good question on the '57 Widow cars as I believe the model year the Copo designation was first used was 1958?.

Also didn't SO in 'Copo & FSO' refer to Shop Order not Special Order?.


~ Pete

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Weren't the black widows "technically" built by SEDCO at Nalley Chevrolet, and not G.M.? Maybe because there was no well established COPO process at the time?