70 COPO

[69LM1]

And how many 70 Copo's have been found to date? vs, how many do we think were produced (500 or so?)?

Rich

[Rick H]

I have one that is being restored. My car is an 06B build. It still has the original quarters and deck lid with the factory drilled holes. The quarter panel holes were done very crudely. Matter of fact the deck lid holes look pretty bad as well.
The quarters are being replaced but I am documenting everything.

Rick H.

[70 copo]

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I have one that is being restored. My car is an 06B build. It still has the original quarters and deck lid with the factory drilled holes. The quarter panel holes were done very crudely. Matter of fact the deck lid holes look pretty bad as well.
The quarters are being replaced but I am documenting everything.

Rick H.

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Rick,

Sounds right. The struggle to get the end caps to fit and line up required oversizing the holes.

Phil

[Rick H]

Phil,
You should see a few of the holes in the quarters. You can stick your thumb through 'em.

Rick H.

[markjohnson]

This is an interesting subject as I just finished looking at the Camaro Registry and there are cars built before mine (05C build) with the tall COPO spoiler. I had always thought that Chevrolet had stopped production on the short spoilers and the remaining late '70 Z-28's got the tall spoilers and COPO designation. Apparently there was a mixture of the two spoilers as the cars came down the assembly line. Regular Z's got short spoilers and COPO Z's got the tall one. Interesting. I picked up my car recently advertised as a used and abused bracket racer in Oklahoma. It turned out to be a Shadow Grey, 4-speed radio delete Z-28 that has supposedly been a race car since new. Lots of neat features: magnesium Ramchargers dana 60, vintage four wheel race disc brakes, old fiberglass front clip and lots of swiss cheesing. An exciting find with a lost history that I'm trying to dig up.

[Xplantdad]

Hey Mark...sounds cool! Shoot some pics of it. BTW, I still see the AA/FX car around here every once in a while

[Rick H]

I believe that all 1970 Z/28's came standard with the one piece spoiler and after late April, early May of 1970 the three piece COPO spoiler became available but only as a special dealer order, not standard equipment. Phil??

Rick H.

[CamarosRus]

FYI, My 07E Norwood Shadow Gray R/S Z has short spoiler....as shown in this 1978 picture

[70 copo]

Rick,

Yes the dealers that knew about it could order it. How that all came together was through the zone reps as they were trying to spread them out to show the SCCA they were in production. Dealers within 300 miles of an SCCA race event were a priority for delivery.

Phil

PS. Chuck Nice Z. Do you still have it?

[markjohnson]

Please help me here. I've always had trouble understanding the signifigance of the COPO 9697 on 1970 Camaros. Isn't it the same spoiler that was used on all 1970 Pontiac Trans Ams and Formula Firebirds? If this is so, then Pontiac should get the credit for developing the superior spoiler and Chevrolet just robbed it from their parts bin. My own 1970 Z/28 by the way is a smaller spoiler (holes filled in)car built in the third week of May in Norwood.