1969 copo l88 convertible

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by useless tony

I have heard that COPO means either Central Office Production Order or Central Office Purchase Order ?

Central Office Production Order

Originally Posted by useless tony

That being said, IF the above is correct, COPO means "large fleet order"

It doesn't have to be "large". Not sure how you made that jump.

The COPO process existed well before all these performance vehicles were ordered. Its original intent, and major usage, was to configure special vehicles outside the production process. Normally this would be nondescript vehicles like special order taxi cabs, or some quantity of vehicles in a particular color or with regular option content removed.

The idea to co-opt the COPO process to create high performance dealer packages came later.

Also - often the production volume quantities were a constrain by race sanctioning bodies; ie - there needed to be 50 production vehicles in order to allow entry in a certain race class.

Jim Mattison, more famously known as the creator and owner of Pontiac Historic Services, did this job when he worked at Chevrolet.

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