Missing COPO in Hot Rod magazine?

[William]

I have done dozens of title/registration searches and finding no records on a car is hardly unusual. They don't keep records forever and if it was legally junked the title was surrendered. Cars that go several years without registration also drop off the file. A number of states did not title cars in those days; it may never have had one.

It may be a COPO-there are hundreds of "missing" COPOs. But with no supporting docs every claim they have made is hot air. And why would Fisher body write "ORANGE" on a car after it was painted?

Just Hot Rod hyping a car for one of their buds. Expect to see it for sale soon.