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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Originality => Topic started by: bsfs on June 13, 2008, 09:50:45 PM

Title: C.O.P.O. - Automatic Transmission
Post by: bsfs on June 13, 2008, 09:50:45 PM

How many column shift automatic C.O.P.O.'s were built?

Can someone supply actual numbers or statictics or better yet some articles on this topic?

Thanks

Title: Re: C.O.P.O. - Automatic Transmission
Post by: Ed Ernst on June 13, 2008, 10:59:59 PM

I have seen a couple, but there is no way to know how many COPO's were column shift equipped.  Here's a CRG research report by Bill GLowacki with regards to the 9560 & 9561 COPO Camaros:  http://www.camaros.org/copo.shtml

Title: Re: C.O.P.O. - Automatic Transmission
Post by: JoeC on June 15, 2008, 08:33:53 PM

almost all of the Yenko 1969 COPO 427 Camaro and Chevelle AT cars were column shift.
Yenko then installed a Hurst his/her duel gate shifter in most of them

Title: Re: C.O.P.O. - Automatic Transmission
Post by: william on June 15, 2008, 09:00:28 PM

In my experience most automatic COPOs are column shift. 21 of the 22 ZL-1s were; only #54 had a console.

A good friend owns an automatic Yenko Camaro with a factory console; quite rare as most were converted column-shift.

As I recently pointed out elsewhere the existing L72 COPO Camaro body of knowledge is based on half or less of the 950 or so built. Plenty left to learn.