After blowing up a couple of 427 big-block mills, this COPO Camaro was parked for decades.
These days it’s common that high-performance “race” versions of cars are stuffed away in climate-controlled garages and treated as collectibles or investments rather than the beat-the-crap-out-of-it track weapons they were designed to be. But back in the day this wasn’t the case, and track-prepped cars were commonly thrashed on the track. Go figure. Then again, we also drank out of garden hoses and participation trophies didn’t exist.This 1969 COPO Camaro is one of these later examples.
In fact, it got so bad that the owner wrote “NOT FOR SALE! DON’T ASK!” on the windshield in red paint! Of course, gearheads are stubborn, and this didn’t work, so the COPO just vanished.Rumor was the car was sold and sent off to live in California, but it was actually just squirreled away in a barn until Nicholson passed away. After his passing the Camaro was sold by the estate and now belongs to Makovich.
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