Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

Sixtiesmuscle had an oddball 66 (?) Skylark GS quite a few years back but I forgot what the heck it was. I really like that car...Mike...what was that car ?

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

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What about the Knafel Magnum 400 car. 50 or so built..???? Was that a COPO type deal with Pontiac

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I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Knafel did the work... like a Motion/Nickey conversion... beats me... I barely know Chevys forget about Pontiacs...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...PontMotion.jpg

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

The Knafel thing was not a COPO-ish item. 400s were available on the Tempest. They just created a package to promote an image and RR fighter.

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

motosportgreen66,
I have one of those books and on the back it shows one for Olds also. Maybe others. I am not home so can't look.

Remember that the COPO cars were one year only. Up until that time the 427's were dealer installed like Pontiacs. But like any other dealer, if you had the $$$$ you could get anything. If not factory then dealer.

Oh,those were the days my friend, and we thought it would NEVER END......but, it did.

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

Were the Knafel cars Ram Air 4 's ???

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

I guess that you could call the Hurst/ Olds a COPO type car, except that the factory never claimed to put the motor in themselves. The story goes that the cars were delivered to Demmer Engineering to have the 400 pulled out, the 455 installed and all of the 'Hurst' stuff was done. This was done to keep the GM brass happy. Olds obeyed the 400 cu in limit for the 'A' bodies with this move. In reality, the 455 was placed in the chassis on the line at Lansing. I spoke with a couple of the guys that worked on the line in '68 and '69 and they said that the red motors in those 'A' body frames stood out like sore thumbs. (Right Dave!) https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

Re: lemans skylark cutlass COPO?
 

I believe some '68s have been found to be COPOs too. One of the Yenko guys should know this for sure.

The Knafel Tempests were regular 400s. This was the top engine for this car and was the same as the standard GTO's engine, but it was rated lower in the Tempest.

Of course, in '71, the top Pontiac engine was available in most of the A-bodies besides the GTO.