'69 Copo Camaro

[J jones]

I looked the car 2 weeks ago and took a good many pictures. I also passed on it. The car really needs a total restoration IMO. From the comments here the restoration was done 40 years ago and it shows.

[J jones]

I will try to post pics if I can figure it out. I guess it would make a good driver, but not at the price he's asking , I was there over an hour, they did come over and raise the hood when I ask. But never offered to talk about the car. I guess I didn't look like a buyer. Idk.

[markjohnson]

Restored by Jay 40 years ago (one of the 1st COPO’s to be restored) when you could still find & buy good GM NOS parts from the GM dealer down the street. Now we’re saying those same Genuine GM parts should be removed and replaced by Chinese offshore reproduction parts to bling it up. I personally remember this car from way back when and I’ll take it the way it is. Maybe we’ve reached a point in time after so many decades where some of these older restored cars need a name like, dare I say it . . . “Resto-Vivors”!

[mprice]

The car is a great car but unfortunately its in the hands of a dealer so the economics just will never be there to give the car what it deserves and that is restored, so someone will have to buy it and enjoy as is for what it is. The car drives better than any frame off car I have ever been around.

[J jones]

I drove 1,100 miles round trip to look at the car. Didnt say it needed a but load of Chinese parts, wrong motor,rear, color,trim tag, and paint coming off in places, all rubber looked bad. The cowl seal was smashed down and about to fall off. The car was filthy dirty, like it had been sitting in a barn for a long time. All can be fixed, if what he's asking and whoever buys it has an unlimited bank account. Has anybody checked the guys reviews. Pretty bad.

[purple panther]

i didnt know you could get a repo tag in 1983.. I thought they came much later like late 80s or early 90s. The stamps came out about 1986 with ads in hemmings.

[mprice]

I don't think anyone has said the tag was changed in 1983. I know this car very well and Jay didn't change the tag when it was restored. Carl didn't change it either. It wasn't until Reggie owned it that Chip Gerst who worked with reggie changed it to match the color that Jay had painted it with. I don't know the year but it would have been sometime in the mid two late 90s. By the way in answer to an earlier question
the car originally was an X44 trim code.

[cook_dw]

Originally a hugger orange car iirc.

[mprice]

Yes hugger orange originally as stated much earlier in this thread. Let me say this I think the car is way over priced (like double what I sold it for) but with that being said I would rather own this real car with a replacement trim tag that is rock solid and drives like a new 69 Camaro than any of the welded up Frankensteins that has every piece of the drive train replaced but oh my they may have the original trim tag.

[J jones]

I totally agree with you on the price and the fact this dealer has it. I personally liked the fact that it was black. Thats what we did back then.. Hate that the tag got changed and someone still has the pop. But thats what it is. Who ever had this car at some point must not of had a climate controlled garage. Still looking though. Got a few more leeds..