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    1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!

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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    My gut instinct tells me "It could be done cheaper".


    Ok fine, it'll miss some of the fine details. However, it goes, and it looks pretty from 30ft away, so what do I care?


    So, from a POV solidly planted on planet Earth, crackpipe.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    It's not a real COPO and no amount of code correct stickers is going to change that, so why bother. You could easily build (or have built for you) a more enjoyable to drive Camaro for the same price or less.
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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Awesome tribute car at a bargain price! Some internet 'experts' don't have a fucking clue. They'd probably rather pay $76K to watch two fish fuck!
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    04/06/09

    @bigblockautoX: The term is "piscoeroticism," and don't knock it until you've tried it.
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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    As a few others have said, this should be compared to the price of building a all Al BBC Camaro, not a ZL-1 COPO Camaro. I really don't see the point of this car. If you are doing this and probably doing it to drive, either that or try to pass off as the real thing. You might as well upgrade the brakes and suspension. and put a good exhaust on it. What you have here is a finiky 1960s tech race engine in an under tired and under braked chassis. So probably crackpipe, but maybe only one or two hits.
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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Abstain. I prefer not to look at this $76K Camarfaux as a low-cost cipher for the real thing, but rather as an offbeat alternative for someone who's cross-shopping new Z06s. You wouldn't buy a musclecar clone to give it the ol' Morris Frye "rub it with a diaper" treatment, you buy it to drive. So, are you going to get as much enjoyment out of driving a well-done fake COPO as you would out of a new Corvette?
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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Tough call. Considering $7,000 in '69 is $39,000 today, I'm leaning crack pipe. However, only 69 were ordered, and fewer than that made it on the road, you have the rarity factor.


    I'm going to go with Michael Phelps bong, instead.


    Oh, and all the 69s in that article made me giggle.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    I could buy two or three really cool cars with high Jalopnik quotients (in nice, "show/driver" condition) and still have change left over OR buy this bitchin, but utterly fakey-doo COPO clone.


    crack pipe.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Graverobber, nice post, but I simply must point out that it is Chaparral, not Chaparrel. (It feels good to spot a Graverobber mistake)


    As for the car, it ultimately isn't the real thing, and it's a lot of money, so perhaps it's only for the real enthusiasts.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    I was leaning toward "nice price" until I realized that being a "replica" the properly dated, coded and stickered/stamped parts are kinda like getting just the right teeth for your stuffed chicken. If you want to stick an Aluminum 427 in a Camaro, knock yourself out. If you want to make an obsessive copy of a very rare car, don't expect that someone else is going to pay the price for your lunacy.


    Crackpipe. And I didn't have that damned song in my head until you suggested it there. Thanks.

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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Crackpipe. It's just a restomod '69 Camaro.
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    04/06/09

    @TV's Paul Y.:


    I'm not sure you know what "restomod" means, or perhaps are joking?

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    04/06/09

    @rlj676-Carbon Footprint Size - Clownshoe:


    Resto = restored


    Mod = modified


    This vehicle was restored to a condition it was never in. How does it not qualify?

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    04/06/09

    @Mike the Dog will work for a Preview Button!: Exactly.


    @rlj676-Carbon Footprint Size - Clownshoe: See Mike The Dog's comment: I have a perfectly functioning grasp of that term.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    I would say nice price, if for nothing else it appears to be a properly done restoration/replica. I would prefer something else the seller has got though:


    [cgi.ebay.com]

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    04/06/09

    @BTLFED loves Murilee's Voyer Cam:


    You're right... I'd take this over that Camaro right now:
    "http://classyauto.com/image.php?image_id=357298">

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    04/06/09

    @Gearhead's Garage:


    I WANT MY PREVIEW BUTTON BACK!!!

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    04/06/09

    @Gearhead's Garage: <.img src="http://classyauto.com/image.php?image_id=357298"


    Take out the . and you (hopefully) get:


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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    With the bloom off the musclecar valuations rose, this could go either way.


    As of late it's been the replica/tribute/reimagining/fakey doo musclecars that have taken the biggest hit in market downturn. I'd have to dig thru my old SCM's but I'm sure plenty of well done COPO replicas sold for $100K+.


    To add a little more confusion, you can buy a "continuation" COPO '69 Camaro for $140K or so. Seeing as the real deal COPO's are $250K+ and will never be cheap again, $76K is not a bad price for a well done replica.

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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    Wow, I'm torn. I was going to say Crackaro but then I looked at the interior and a warm wave of nostalgia washed over me...but then I thought, nah, maybe $50k or so. So it's not the Heart of CrackCity but it's definitely on the outskirts.
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    04/06/09

    In reply to 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 Replica for $76,000!
    I will vote Nice Price with the caveat that it was properly done. Getting the right, date-coded parts to make a proper replica is very difficult and time consuming. Plus, it looks like the paint stamps, etc. were properly duplicated as well. This was an expensive restoration to do and it would be hard for someone to duplicate the car for similar money with the right parts. Is it something I would want? No. If I did a 69 Camaro it would be anything but stock as they suck in stock form, no matter which engine they came with. Scary brakes, scarier handling board flat seats, etc. I would modernize it instead.
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    04/06/09

    @Jim-Bob: I will also add that the engine may have made those numbers on the dyno, but it would never have put it to the wheels in a stock vehicle. GM records from the time show that the stock dual exhaust designed for these cars could support no more than 275hp. The L-72 and L-88 engines with the good dyno numbers were run on open headers, not stock manifolds and exhaust. Remember: GM only designed one dual exhaust for these cars and put it in anything from a 4 bbl 350 to a ZL-1. It was expected that the racers who bought the COPO cars would change it anyhow, so it was not deemed important. I will also say that it was the COPO 9560 cars that got the aluminum block ZL-1, not the COPO 9561's which got the Iron block and head L-72. The 9560's were the ones with a production run of 69 cars. The 9561's saw far more produced and are the ones that were commonly sold through Yenko, Nickey, or Berger Chevrolet dealers.
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    04/06/09

    @Jim-Bob:


    Heart clicky for you for knowing your Camaro's and raising good points

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    04/06/09

    @lilwillie: Indeed. Heart-click from me as well for the cargeek minutae, even if it's about a car I could hardly care less about.
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    04/01/09

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