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Rare car1969 COPO 9560 ZL1
69 built
Rare car
1969 COPO 9561 (L72 427)
997 cars (per CRG)
Racing
NHRA drag racing and COPO
1969–present
Story
The COPO dealer that never stopped
Berger Chevrolet ordered fifty COPO 427s in 1969 — and is still building performance Camaros, a hundred years after it opened.
Model year
1969 Camaro
COPO ZL1 and L72, the second Indy pace car, and the most collectible first-gen year.
Model year
2018 Camaro
A styling refresh — and, at SEMA, an all-electric eCOPO drag concept marking 50 years of COPO.
Model year
2012 Camaro
The ZL1 comes back (supercharged, 580 hp) and the modern COPO drag program begins.
Story
Chicago's 427 shop that beat Yenko to it
Nickey Chevrolet was stuffing big-blocks into Camaros before the ink dried on COPO — and the name is still on shop doors sixty years later.
Rare car
Dana Chevrolet 427
~50 built, ~6 documented survivors
Person
Vince Piggins
Chevrolet product performance chief — “father of the Z/28”
Person
Don Yenko
Racer and dealer — the Yenko Super Camaro
Generation
First Generation (1967–1969)
The answer to the Mustang — "a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs."
Story
Corvette and Camaro were never really separate
The same people, and the same engines, moved between them for sixty years.
Story
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.