69 Camaro's Canonsburg yard pic?

[bkhpah]

I would think that the pin stripes were easily removed. I have never seen an X11 Yenko with both style striping. On the Harrell cars, if the stripe was in the way of the custom stripe that was applied, the factory stripe was buffed away. It would take almost nothing to remove the quickly applied factory pin striping...BKH

[Stefano]

bkhpah,
You may be 100% correct. I think that there may be more to it ,however.

It just wouldn't follow that a dealer would create additional work for himself when it wouldn't be required.

I have asked Jack Douglass this same question, as all his Direct COPO orders were X-11 coded.

He remembers that his COPOs arrived without the X-11 pin stripes, but recalls somehow designating them to be pinstripe delete(per Don Yenko's order format).

I would not agree that the pinstripes would be 'easily' removed by buffing them off.

While an accomplished professional could wet sand them flat and finish them off with a buffer,your standard dealer 'prep' or 'get ready' personel, as they were commonly called would not be allowed near a new car with a buffer.

Since these were all batched special orders (not built one at a time)it would make sense to me to have a pin stripe delete for Yenko Camaros.

Is your original paint Yenko X-11 coded?

[T Billigen]

If I remember correctly, not all the cars in this area were COPO cars, maybe this car with the pinstripes is not a COPO? The salesman I talked to said "some" of the cars were 427s. Since this was almost 33 years ago I may be wrong, but I think this was a general storage area for all Camaros.

[JoeC]

I am not so sure that car has pin stripeing on it. If you look at the other cars, they appear to have dust or something on the hoods and trunks. The dust may have settled on the fender in a way to make it look like striping but may be just the dust highlighting the edge and shows up in the picture. It also looks to be too wide to be a pin stripe.

[Stefano]

T Billigen,
I would say that due to the Silver Grill, Chevy Bowtie and Cowl Induction Hood that the Camaro is a COPO. I only have the picture from this site, so I can not determine if they are stripes or not.

[Denis]

Where is the picture originally from, as in what book or what magazine? If I knew, I could rescan the original.

[T Billigen]

I think that line is a reflection from the sun and not a pinstripe, it seems the black car (first one in line) has a similar line and you can tell this is a reflection. The sun seems to be directly above the cars and could cause this illusion?