1969 COPO 9560 ZL1
69 built
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1969 COPO 9561 (L72 427)
997 cars (per CRG)
NHRA drag racing and COPO
1969–present
The 1969 Yenko COPO prototype
One car
The 2019 eCOPO electric drag concept
A single running concept, shown at SEMA 2018
The COPO dealer that never stopped
Berger Chevrolet ordered about fifty COPO 427s in 1969, and it is still building performance Camaros a century after the family business began in 1925.
The modern COPO Camaro (revived for 2012)
2012 run: 69 cars; 2022 quota statements conflict
1969 Camaro
COPO ZL1 and L72 big blocks, all-new sheet metal and a second Indy pace car.
Fred Gibb
Dealer behind the COPO 9560 ZL1 order
2012 Camaro
The ZL1 and COPO names come back in the same year.
Dana Chevrolet 427
~50 built, ~6 documented survivors
Berger Chevrolet and the GMMG cars
Dealer-built continuation specials, produced in small documented batches
The dealer-tuners
Dana, Nickey, Baldwin-Motion, Berger, Yenko
Dick Guldstrand and Dana Chevrolet: one dealership, two famous cars
Where the stories cross
Vince Piggins
Chevrolet product performance chief, “father of the Z/28”
Don Yenko
Racer and dealer behind the Yenko Super Camaro
Don Yenko: already named on the Corvette site
Where the stories cross
Chicago's 427 shop that beat Yenko to it
A Chicago dealer with a backwards K on its sign sold 427 Camaros the factory wouldn't build, and the name is still on shop doors sixty years later.
2013 Camaro
The 1LE track package comes back on the SS, and Hot Wheels gets a full-size Camaro.
First Generation (1967–1969)
"A small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs."
Cowl tag decoder
Did you know
1971 Camaro
V8 compression falls as Chevrolet prepares its engines for unleaded fuel.
2011 Camaro
A folding roof comes back to the Camaro for the first time since 2002.
2015 Camaro
A Commemorative Edition sends off the fifth generation.
A story that looks fabricated, and how to tell
Community & lore
Baldwin-Motion Phase III
Single digits to low double digits
Bill Thomas
Chevrolet tuner: the Cheetah, then Nickey's 427 Camaros
Corvette and Camaro were never really separate
The same people, and the same engines, moved between them for sixty years.
Dick Harrell
Drag racer and engine builder, “Mr. Chevrolet”
Fifth Generation (2010–2015)
The comeback, with a movie star's head start.
Modern licensed “Yenko/SC” continuation cars
Modern licensed conversions, not vintage cars
Mr. Chevrolet
When GM quit racing, one man became the brand's unofficial presence, and built the cars the dealers put their names on.
Sixth Generation (2016–2024)
The one that nailed it, and the one that said goodbye.
The dealer who out-engineered Chevrolet
A small-town Pennsylvania Chevy dealer talked the factory into building his cars for him, and a prototype from that deal just became the most expensive Camaro ever sold.
The Z/28 convertible that wasn't supposed to exist
Chevrolet never offered a Z/28 convertible in 1968. It built one anyway, for the man it needed to convince.