COPO Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 History

1969 Camaro ZL1 - Pulls like Train Ad

Most of the Chevy Camaros were ordered using the Regular Production Option (or RPO) method. This provided a wide variety of performance and styling upgrades, but the Central Office Purchase Order (COPO) is legendary for creating rare, super secret, high performance Camaros.

The COPO system was truly intended for more mundane fleet type of alterations. The most common use of COPO system was to specify fleet paint schemes for municipal vehicles, heavy duty springs and special fabrics for use in taxicabs. It was never intended for creating ultra high performance Chevrolet vehicles, but try telling that to Don Yenko, Baldwin-Motion, and Berger Chevrolet. Read More

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Camaro New vs Old

Just How Good Were the Good Ol’ Days of the 60′s? To find out, Motor Trend gathered three modern high-spec pony cars and matched them with their glory days ancestors.

We’re pitting a 2011 Camaro SS against the ’69 Camaro SS396 that inspired its design; a 2011 Challenger SRT8 meets the ’70 Challenger it so faithfully resembles; and a freshly minted Shelby Mustang GT500 convertible meets its ’69 forebear.

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1969 Chevrolet Camaro David Alfred

1969 Chevrolet Camaro

Year: 1969
Make: Chevrolet
Model: Camaro
Owner: David Alfred  from Lake Elmo, Minnesota
Features: 383 producing 511 hp,  5 speed,  9 inch Ford and more Read More

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