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Old 01-18-2021, 07:47 PM
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Yep, ducted hoods and no engine emblems. Actually, 9 COPOs if we count ZL1 #22 N609690. I guess what remains of it is buildable.

L72 COPO survival is about 1/2 of the 997 built. Still a bunch around, built up as Z/28s or street machines. Noticed one on ebay last summer; a bud picked it up right. Axle still there. Saw a Le Mans blue Z/28 at SC-Indy 2001 with a repro X33D80 body tag. If they copied the body number from the original tag correctly, it was likely a Glockner Chev COPO.

ZL1s are doing much better. Now at 50 surviving cars with the recent addition of #45. Fairly certain at least 4 others still exist.
So someone turned a Glockner COPO into a cloned Z28?

My buddy has a Glockner COPO, wait until I tell him that story. 🤬
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Old 01-19-2021, 12:58 AM
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So someone turned a Glockner COPO into a cloned Z28?

My buddy has a Glockner COPO, wait until I tell him that story. 🤬
There was a COPO found somewhere around Atlanta, about 15-20 years ago. It was badged and painted as a Z, and the guy who bought it did not know what it was, until someone clued him in. I think it still had some big block stuff on it- maybe heater box, can't remember. Then he checked the rear, and it was a BE.
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Old 01-19-2021, 03:10 PM
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In my travels I have found drag racers don't much care what their car was originally. A few years ago a bud was contacted to examine a race car, owner had it almost 20 years. How he could have not known it was a ZL1 is hard to imagine, as the VIN tag was untouched. Race car since new, probably never registered. Many don't have any tags.

I believe there is a '69 Yenko Camaro drag car, still being raced out of the Chicago area. They know and don't care.
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Old 01-19-2021, 03:53 PM
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I found a COPO out here a couple years ago. The owner keeps hinting to me at selling but hasn't pulled the trigger yet. It's an X44 that is dollied up like a Z. He drives it around on a regular basis and we talk occasionally. Found the car in a backyard in Phoenix with no engine/trans. Has a BE rear dated to the car, factory muncie hole and ZL2 hole in the firewall.
He installed a small block and muncie 4 speed, painted the car up to look like a Z and has fun with it.
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Old 01-19-2021, 04:54 PM
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There was a COPO found somewhere around Atlanta, about 15-20 years ago. It was badged and painted as a Z, and the guy who bought it did not know what it was, until someone clued him in. I think it still had some big block stuff on it- maybe heater box, can't remember. Then he checked the rear, and it was a BE.
Sounds like my friends Glockner COPO. It was badged as a Z28 with engine and trans gone, but had all the indicators of a COPO. I was looking thru the COPO chapter in McNeish’s Z28 book one day and there was a bunch of trim tag pictures. One of them was from a Glockner COPO one number away from my friends. If I remember right there’s three Glockner COPO’s with sequential numbers and could be more.
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Old 01-19-2021, 11:21 PM
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Mine just had the Z-stripes, still retained the bowtie badging. Was being used as a street machine from 1978 until I bought it in 2018. I wasn't even sure I bought a COPO until I consulted folks on this site with my suspicions.
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Old 01-22-2021, 02:40 AM
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Vortecpro the car was bought new in Lincoln Nebraska and then was traded in on a new Torino at a ford dealer in Littleton, CO and then was purchased by a guy from Ordway, CO and was driven in the Ordway/Rocky Ford/La Junta area until being purchased in/around 1985 and put into storage in Scott City Kansas

Thanks Jeremy, I always wondered if there was any rare cars in that area (Rocky Ford).
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Old 01-22-2021, 11:49 AM
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I saw a post on a drag racing forum where a guy said he knew the owner of ZL1 #22. It was bought from Mac's with a 375 hp 396. The guy raced it with the L78. He said the engine was put in a Corvette race car and was blown up, then the engine was sitting in the showroom of Mac's Chevy on display. I don't know it the story is true but he posted these pics.

I checked the CRG ZL1 list on #22 and it shows a silver car from Mac's
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Old 01-22-2021, 12:11 PM
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Al McNamara was the proprietor of Mac''s Chevrolet / Oldsmobile in Crete, Nebraska.

sometimes you can find some of the old employees

here is another Mac's Camaro

http://twubs.com/69MacsCamaro/members
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