COPO question .

[Mr70]

Welcome Tom Hendricks..what took you so long.

[hugger1]

There is a Corvette listed for sale here locally and advertized as a possible "PHASE III" Corvette

Is this a Baldwin Motion car ?

What exactly is a PHASE III CAR ?

[Kurt S]

L88 and ZL1 were RPO's. No COPO order was required for an RPO. May have required the Central Office to approve (the special color combos did require this), but they did not require any additional engineering so thus did not get a COPO # assigned to them.

[Denis]

hugger1, see http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/corvette/69Baldwin

[Tom Hendricks]

Thanks Rick:

I must have been sleeping. I never knew you guys were here partying without me. Looks like a good place to learn more stuff !!

[Edited by Tom Hendricks (02-26-2002 at 07:48 AM).]

[JoeC]

QUOTE.."but they did not require any additional engineering so thus did not get a COPO # assigned to them."

I would disagree with this because there may have been different types of special paint. Some early Camaros had special paint but it was no more then deleting the mandatory nose stripe on an SS. This may not have required processing by the COPO system. When a car received a complete color change to a non standard color, I believe it would require approval through the COPO system. Jim Mattison recalled in his interview that he did paperwork for some strange colors requested by Chevy dealers. Also I have seen Chevelle build sheets with special paint that have some COPO type numbers on them. Some special paint 1970 Chevelles have been found with strange numbers stamped on the trim tag.

[Stefano]

There are people like Jim M. who were there, so I just want to clearify my understanding(I don't know I wasn't there).
It would be highly unlikely to get the Central Office to process a single special request ,not that it couldn't get done for the likes of, lets say Pete Estes, but unlikely for a single vehicle. Usually it would require at least a few???