1969 Chevelle COPO 427

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by scott helms

The front marker light said 396 that was a 1968 piece, speaking of 1968 does anybody remember a 1968 427 Chevelle from factory? Why not in book. not enough made?

I have never seen any documentation of a factory produced 427 powered Chevelle other than the COPO 9562 in 1969.

There were dealer built cars, Yenko, Gibb, etc, and possibly "Baldwin/Motion" cars, before 1969.

In 69, the two 427 Camaro COPO cars fit SS/B and SS/C. Bill Howell and Vince Piggins wanted in SS/D. So the 69 Chevelle COPO 9562 was created for that purpose.

The spring/summer 2008 Chevelle magazine from Super Chevy has a nice little short article on the COPO 9562 69 Chevelle L-72 427 cars, with a breakdown of the options, and even some information on the COPO cars Yenko bought and sold.

[RogerD]

detroit60 website shows this GM Canada doc for a Baltimore '69 Chevelle COPO 9566AA . . .
Here's the link with more details . . .http://www.detroit60.com/id63.htm

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

I have never seen any documentation of a factory produced 427 powered Chevelle other than the COPO 9562 in 1969..

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by FED 387

I ordered/bought a NEW 1969 Chevelle 300 Deluxe 2 door SEDAN with a 396/375 and a Turbo trans --it came from the factory with a 4:88,HD suspension,posi ,a tinted windshield NO radio bench seat rubber floor mats dog dish hubcaps--- Marina blue with a black interior--had SS emblems on it and the SS hood no other ID stuff on it other than the front marker lights said 396 replaced them the first nite with stock 6 cylinder lights and that thing would scream pulled the engine at about 1500 miles put in a 430 ci BBC would drive it too the track put a set of M&H 10:00 XS-11 slicks on it pull the Corvair turbo mufflers off rejet the carb roll a set of plugs in nad set the timing thing would run 10.70 at about 123 then trun around put it back together and drive it home---won a lotta money with that car too---car never saw rain or snow sat in a heated garage all winter sold it in 1974 with the original engine for $7500 to buy a house--wish I had it now!!!! FED387

$7500 was a gazillion dollars for a muscle car in 1974! Somebody wanted that car BAD! I'm guessing that was 1/3rd of the price of the home?