1969 Chevelle COPO 427

[chris ok]

sorry to hear this John. Hope you are enjoying yourself racing something now.
Chris

[Flynfol]

John,

You wouldn't be from the Cleveland area by chance? A friend of mine's neighbor had a couple 69 chevelles in the early 70s. Held a d/ sa record for awhile. The brown one had a 427 in it and I think it was a copo car. The other was dark green.He and his partner split up...he kept the engine, partner kept car. I was restoring a 69 SS at the time( early 80s)when he showed me his pics of the cars.

John

[71Dartman440]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

A little '1969' match race;
1968 426 Street-Hemi Road Runner SS/DA
versus
1968 Chevelle SS 396 (396/375HP) B/S (opposite lane, see the vent window 1968 Model)

Wow...wonder if that Chevelle is this one out of Rutledge PA back in the day. Car was raced predominantly at Atco NJ.

[denny harvey]

Denny ford out of pa..i think..had a sweet blue 4-speed b/stocker. car was bad..

[Steve340]

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 saw a 68 427 car. back in 82 or so. I was at the auto hobby shop at DMAFB, and a guy drove in a pea green 69, thing looks plain as heck, the badges said 427, I asked him what the heck, he said his family had ordered it new like that. Since then I found that you could COPO it with the 427. Nothing else was changed, body or trim wise. Never saw what trans or rear it had. But it was a bench column car.

Steve

[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..

[RogerD]

Originally Posted by MrsDickHarrell

As always, I try not to get too far in the middle on these issues that keep surfacing on the Dick Harrell name. . .
. . . These statements are made by me for another reason - to be in fairness to those people that have purchased a genuine Dick Harrell car.
I was there and I lived it and I am still living it!
__________________
Elaine Harrell "Mrs. Chevrolet"

Fairness indeed . . .
I purchased "a genuine Dick Harrell car" from Bill Allen Chevrolet . . .

Copies of the ORIGINAL, circa '69 docs I saved. . .
The Dick Harrell Performance Center MSRP was on the driver side window the day I bought the car new. . .
The Bill Allen customer invoice I received after the trade was finalized . . .
Bill Allen was a reputable GM dealer - not one who would participate in a scam to sell fake Harrell cars . . .