Rare LS6 - restoration to begin - question...?

[COPO PETE]

If you go way back on this site, there was a thread called Daytona Yellow. Might be an interesting read for you!
Peter

[JoeC]

Do you have anything in box no. 60 on your build sheet? There was a guy on here with a Monaco Orange LS6 that was in a MCR article called "Mystery Chevelle" or something like that. I have heard of other 1970 cars with these two colors. Since the Monaco/Hugger Orange and Daytona Yellow were special order Chevelle colors in 69, there were probably some customers who asked for these colors in 1970 so they made if available. It may have required using the COPO process to get them built. This would explain special numbers on the build sheet.

[Rare_LS6]

Thanks for the info - so far...

The area of the most confusion for me is exactly what the eight digit code means - Tracking number, paint code, special order number, COPO number...? The "926" at the begining would seem logical to be a paint code....yet, I haven't been able to find a color for that code. The 99568 code...no idea...9568...copo number?

Some more details;
Mr70 - Yes, the car has ZL-2 Cowl Induction.
The car was built in Van Nuys in Jan. and delivered to Garden Grove Ca. (SoCal).

I've personally only seen one other LS6 chevelle with the ZP3 option and the paint delete "-" on the trim tag (not to say there aren't more) that car was orange.

Anymore info....

[JoeC]

On the cover of Colvin's book 70-75 Chevy by the numbers is a 70 454 Chevelle that looks like Daytona Yellow. I don't know if this is an original car but there were not many made in Monaco Orange or Daytona Yellow.

[Rare_LS6]

JoeC -

Yes, I've seen the car on the cover of Colvin's Book 70-75...nice car. I have a zerox of my build sheet here at work - box #60 appears to be blank...?

Is box #60 for a copo number...?

[JoeC]

I have seen COPO build sheet with numbers in box 60. Not only hi po COPO but also fleet order stuff. But your car was built in Cali and those free spirited Cali people did weird stuff to build sheets and trim tags. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] They may have used the hand written numbers instead of typing in the boxes. I have not seen too many Cali COPOs but if you can email or post the build sheet I may be able to notice some similarities to other COPO build sheets.

[Nova Research Project]

Rare_LS6;

I think the whole number is the paint code. I still can not find a it exactly, but I found similar numbers. Check out this link for similar codes used on 1969 Buicks. Buick paint codes

Greg

[Mr70]

Why I believe you have a special order Daytona Yellow Code 76 Paint on your Chevelle:
*ZP3 appears on ALL special Paint Cars.
*Januaury is too early to be Sunflower Yellow.I have documents stating it was not available until Spring 1970.I.E. April/May 1970.
*Box #60 is blank on some of these cars buildsheets.Some show the word "Paint"typed in,or hand written.
* 926 appears on all my ZP3 special paint buildsheets as well.Be it Monacco Orange,or a buick Gold paint on a Chevy.Those digits after the three digit code seem to be the call out for that specific color.After reading what has been said here,I am guessing that is a COPO color code of sorts,or Chevrolets in house coding.

[Schonyenko2]

I agree this may be a Daytona yellow car, but could be code 51 for 70. 76 and 51 might be the same, but should check the mix formula as one may be brighter than the other. This is true of code 75 cranberry red. 70 has black tint, 71, same name and number has white. I'm guessing this was inhouse special order vs COPO as COPO as I understand it was usually more than one unless he owned a cab company and had it painted with the order. I guess we may never know for sure, but having it checked with the spectrum machine should tell you what it is, or close to it. My son did find some interesting info on dates of color availability as in spring of 70. I will ask Rob to post an attachment. Note the last three colors added to the 70 Novas. These were the 10 each Yenko deuce colors. Ken S.