First COPO Camaros are coming!

[yota]

I’m personally digging the shit out of that white car… fucking YUM

DETROIT – Chevrolet will build 69 COPO Camaros for 2012, the brand’s first purpose-built Camaro drag-racing specialty car designed to compete with the quickest in NHRA’s Stock Eliminator and Super Stock classes. National records for quarter-mile times in these contests are in the nine-second range.

As such, the COPO Camaros are expected to be the quickest Camaro ever offered by Chevrolet.

“The COPO Camaro is going to shake up the sportsman drag racing ranks this summer and give Chevy fans a great new reason to cheer on the Bowtie,” said Jim Campbell, GM U.S. vice president of Performance Vehicles & Motorsports. “COPO builds off the strengths that have made the Camaro the best-selling sports car in America. And while it was developed strictly for the drag strip, the COPO Camaro is infused with the same performance pedigree that every Camaro shares.”

The 69-car production for the 2012 COPO Camaro matches the number of “ZL-1” COPO Camaros made in 1969. COPO stands for Central Office Production Order and was Chevrolet’s special-order system in used by dealers to build high-performance models in the 1960s.

The new COPO Camaros will be built using factory “body-in-white” body structures produced at the Oshawa, Ontario plant that manufactures regular-production Camaros. They are the same body-in-white body shells available to all racers under Chevrolet Performance part number 19243374.

Customers will order and complete the transaction for their COPO Camaro at their preferred Chevrolet dealer with delivery at the General Motors Performance Build Center in Wixom, Mich.

Deliveries will begin early this summer.

Highlights of the new COPO Camaro program include:
A sequenced build number matched to the engine but sold without a Vehicle Identification Number and cannot be registered for highway use

Three racing-class engine are available, including a naturally aspirated 427 (7.0L) and two supercharged 327 (5.3L) V-8 engines

Engine assembly at GM’s Performance Build Center, where the buyer can opt to participate in the engine assembly similar to Chevrolet’s Corvette Engine Build Experience and the Chevrolet Performance Build Your Own Crate Engine programs

Engines pairing with a Powerglide automatic transmission designed for drag racing

Five colors: Flat Black, Summit White, Victory Red, Silver Ice Metallic and Ashen Gray Metallic

A COPO graphics package similar to the one introduced on the concept vehicle available in Metallic White, Semi-Gloss Black, Inferno Orange Metallic and Chevy Racing Blue

Pricing starting at $89,000

A special collector’s package offering the purchase of all three engines with the COPO Camaro – including one installed in the car at delivery – with each engine serial number matched to the car

#3 being shipped

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[ReDevil]

Cute starter Cameo.

[KillerBlackbird]

Needs to be street legal…and not eighty nine fucking thousand dollars for a god damn Camaro.

Didn’t the original COPOs look like normal cars and not have obnoxious white lettered tires and janky wheels?

Chevy needs to make a ZL1-Z28 and stick an LS7 with a blower on it and if its $89K I better be able to choose any color and get a handie. Maybe even two.

[Eatonualive]

yeah fords cobra jet is the same way. no vin#, just a build number. 89 grand for a car that you can just race at the strip isnt my cup of tea. but badass none the less.

[REDWGN]

nuw cemeroz r ugli.

[88slowmarro]

For 90k ill get a base 8cyl camaro to run same or better times !!! And have fun building it , taking it Fuck sbardys wife etc .

[REDWGN]

@88slowmarro

For 90k ill get a base 8cyl camaro to run same or better times !!! And have fun building it , taking it Fuck sbardys husband etc .

:cone

[K20power]

They suck. Big waste of money

[88slowmarro]

Nolan I can’t bang sbardys husband , its cossey and cossey and I are family !!! It would be weird at the thanksgiving table knowing what we did .

[SSmokinn_SS]

@KillerBlackbird

Needs to be street legal…and not eighty nine fucking thousand dollars for a god damn Camaro.

Didn’t the original COPOs look like normal cars and not have obnoxious white lettered tires and janky wheels?

Chevy needs to make a ZL1-Z28 and stick an LS7 with a blower on it and if its $89K I better be able to choose any color and get a handie. Maybe even two.

a ls7 + blower = alot of blown blocks.

the LS3 + blower = a much better choice.

[Eatonualive]

SSmokinnSS doesnt usually supercharge his LS motors…

…But when he does, he chooses an LS3

[Eatonualive]

Nolan, if you see that ^ … im sure u know what to do…

[cazwrx187]

I don’t understand this car

[KillerBlackbird]

@SSmokinn SS

a ls7 + blower = alot of blown blocks.

the LS3 + blower = a much better choice.

Either way, GM should’ve made it more exclusive and unique.

[DigRacer]

I think it’s awesome the big 3 are finally all back into the factory drag racing ring. It seems a lot of you are either spoiled by the availability of performance cars on the market right now or too young to remember the last time history gave us this opportunity. My teen years were during the awesome performance era of the late 70’s to mid 80’s. I remember being excited that Ford finally got the Mustang to run low 14’s again! Of course you could buy a new Camaro and build it to match or beat the performance of these cars at the track, but you have to realize these are purpose built cars aimed at a specific class in drag racing, not the typical street guy.

As far as having a vin#, there is no way any of these car companies could sell their race packages for street use. The EPA as well as the insurance agencies would not allow it. It is no different than the Hemi Darts and Cudas of 68, or the other race only packages of that time.

I don’t understand using a 5.3 for the supercharged choice unless class rules only allow that many cubic inches, but I am sure any one of the 3 engines will be fast as hell with room for improvement. The fact that it come factory with a cage, Glide, and turn key is great for guys racing in the stock/super stock classes. I am curious what the rear under the car is. I would hope they went with a solid axle that will hold the power.

[GD3Skier]

I just find it odd that it’s not street legal yet still has a radio/cd player.

[K20power]

Those are the climate controls, the radio is where the switches are right above that. I still find it dumb though that theyd make it not street legal.

[GD3Skier]

Hmmm it looks like there is a cd player slot. Could be something else though.

[toomanycamaros]

@DigRacer

I think it’s awesome the big 3 are finally all back into the factory drag racing ring. It seems a lot of you are either spoiled by the availability of performance cars on the market right now or too young to remember the last time history gave us this opportunity. My teen years were during the awesome performance era of the late 70’s to mid 80’s. I remember being excited that Ford finally got the Mustang to run low 14’s again! Of course you could buy a new Camaro and build it to match or beat the performance of these cars at the track, but you have to realize these are purpose built cars aimed at a specific class in drag racing, not the typical street guy.

As far as having a vin#, there is no way any of these car companies could sell their race packages for street use. The EPA as well as the insurance agencies would not allow it. It is no different than the Hemi Darts and Cudas of 68, or the other race only packages of that time.

I don’t understand using a 5.3 for the supercharged choice unless class rules only allow that many cubic inches, but I am sure any one of the 3 engines will be fast as hell with room for improvement. The fact that it come factory with a cage, Glide, and turn key is great for guys racing in the stock/super stock classes. I am curious what the rear under the car is. I would hope they went with a solid axle that will hold the power.

From what little I know about them they are running either a stranger or moser 9" w/ 4.11s or 3.73s

[KillerBlackbird]

@DigRacer

I think it’s awesome the big 3 are finally all back into the factory drag racing ring. It seems a lot of you are either spoiled by the availability of performance cars on the market right now or too young to remember the last time history gave us this opportunity. My teen years were during the awesome performance era of the late 70’s to mid 80’s. I remember being excited that Ford finally got the Mustang to run low 14’s again! Of course you could buy a new Camaro and build it to match or beat the performance of these cars at the track, but you have to realize these are purpose built cars aimed at a specific class in drag racing, not the typical street guy.

As far as having a vin#, there is no way any of these car companies could sell their race packages for street use. The EPA as well as the insurance agencies would not allow it. It is no different than the Hemi Darts and Cudas of 68, or the other race only packages of that time.

I don’t understand using a 5.3 for the supercharged choice unless class rules only allow that many cubic inches, but I am sure any one of the 3 engines will be fast as hell with room for improvement. The fact that it come factory with a cage, Glide, and turn key is great for guys racing in the stock/super stock classes. I am curious what the rear under the car is. I would hope they went with a solid axle that will hold the power.

Im not spoiled by it, I just find it disgusting that you pay almost $100K for a Camaro you will never legally be able to drive on the street.

Theres no “hidden” gems like days of past. It gets announced to the public with a limited production run and a sticker price to match. How should it be done? For one model year I should be able to walk into any Chevrolet dealer and ask a salesman; “Hey, what are the chances I could order a new Camaro with an LS7?” Then an order could be placed and it would/could all be done by word of mouth, no advertising, no hype. Fuck, even make it a 2 year run where you could do that. LSX 454 in a brand new Camaro? Sure. Keep it all under $60K.