REAL COPO? saw what I think is REAL see my pics

[Les Quam]

Great thread.

Marlin it takes a lot of courage to come out with the truth about a car rebodied by a well known and well respected guy knowing you are going to get severely bashed or burned at the stake as you say. Well done that kind of integrity isn't found in abundance today.

I am trying to learn more about documenting Camaro's the only two I own have paperwork, living original owners and were well known. So if I understand this a COPO will have its VIN on the trim plate and behind the heater box and on the cowl? Plus on the block? But the VIN contains nothing that indicates what the car is in regard to the factory engine? Thus if all the VINS match then you are comparing them to paperwork which may or may not be authentic??

My rookie understanding is that the 512 block has a VIN on the rear pad in front of the oil filter in a rough area that can't be restamped so if that is true and that VIN matches the other VINS what does that mean? I was also told the other chevy big blocks the non Hi- Po blocks have the rear stamp on a machined pad near the oil filter and can be restamped?