Dick Harrell - 1969 427 Camaro at Auction

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I do not think people give Fred Gibb and Don Yenko enough credit for what they did.

While most dealers and other performance shops were doing conversions in house, one or two at a time, to improve the process, and make it more profitable, to get the COPO ball rolling, Fred and Don had to agree to buy 50 like cars, basically risking their business’ in a belief that hi-performance cars could be sold in volume.

At a time when GM was “out of racing”, the COPO cars allowed racers, such as Grumpy, DH, Hedrick, The Rat Pack, who were loyal to GM, to field a competitive car.

Just think how different the musclecar hobby would be today if they had not talked GM into allowing them to use the COPO system for hi-performance, and then, willing to take the risk.

Fred-Don…. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif[/img]