uncommon copo found

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Both scenarios are possible. Sometimes a group of cars were sequential, other times they were not. I think that if a car is line with the others, it's a good indicator, but no 100% conclusive. It's a shame that NJ is so poor with title searches, as that is one avenue to find more info on the car.

[deuce-less]

i guess for some the research on a particular car is fun.
i personally subscribe to the theory that the body numbers were sequential, if the order was accepted for production
at one time from one specific dealer, it makes sense to me that the body numbers would serve as a type of purchase order number. jmo

[COPO]

I think if the body # is right in the middle of other known COPO's from the same dealer, NICB says it came from the same dealer, and all the typcial physical clues for a COPO car are intact, then you can probably be 99.9% it is a real COPO. The difficulty being if you spend $80K on a resto and then need to sell it for some reason, it might be more challenging getting the next buyer comfortable.

[camarojoe]

Do you have an NICB report for this car?

[COPO_Anders]

Marlin, what is your experience with the 1969 Yenko Camaros ?
Do you know when a specific car was ordered, so that you can see today that cars ordered at the same time don´t have sequential bodynumbers ?

[COPO_Anders]

I don´t have any proof of it, but I have been told that bodynumber 353001,353003 and 353005 are known Malcolm Konner cars.
Is the owner of 353003 out there, and can confirm that your car came from MK ?
Or are the owners of 353002 and/or 353004 out there, and know that your cars did not come from MK ?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Hi Anders,

The short answer is 'no', I don't have any info that shows that cars ordered together have/don't have sequential body numbers. The reason is because we don't know when a specific dealer placed their orders, even though we might know that a specific dealer received 10 cars for example - we don't know the production sequence that GM decided to produce them under. The more dealers involved with ordering cars under a particular copo, the more variability - and the higher the possbility of non-sequential bodies going to a given dealer.

I'm no expert on the COPO Camaro bodies, but have studied them in some detail to determine similarities to the Nova body numbers.

[firstgenaddict]

I was thinking about this earlier and thought that if plain/standard non special order cars were produced very soon after being ordered then we should be able to tell by the body numbers approximately when the car was ordered. It seems that if you went backwards on the body numbers and found other "plain" cars with close body numbers to the COPO "groups" then we could guesstimate the order time with in a week or two.
Don't know how this might help but I was thinking on it as well.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The body numbers are not always linear in relation to build week.

I like to use the copo novas as an example: The first 15 deuces have the earliest body numbers, and have build dates of 06A. The next 15 deuces have sequentially later body numbers, but have an earlier build date of 05D! So, the earlier build week does not necessarily indicate a lower body number - strange, but....

[firstgenaddict]

I understand that the special cars do not follow any set sequencing. What I thought was that the "normal" ordered cars may have. So after the order was accepted by fisher (body number assigned) they would have been built relatively quickly. So we could determine more or less when the COPO orders were accepted by Fisher by comparing the COPO body numbers to regular cars body numbers.
I will post this topic on CRG to see what JohnZ has to say about it.