wow
friggin badass
I do agree… its just that many of these people also have other older cars they can drive whenever they want. Like my dad has 2 other 69 Camaros, an SS and Z28 that are not COPO/Yenko cars… he drives them, leaves his COPO sit in the trailer. Most people on the road cannot tell the difference anyway. The COPO/Yenko cars have just been piling on the value in the past 3-4 years… its almost not worth driving them, unless you have so much money that you could care less what happens to the car.
I love 69 Camaros, don’t get me wrong… but if it was up to me, I would be selling the COPO and picking up a nice Ferrari or Lamborghini. I tell my dad that all the time, his reply “What do I need that shit for?”. Then throw a 572 in a regular 69 and have fun with that.
Beautiful work! 
Thanks for the complements, I still have yet to get down there to take some good pictures of it.
i generally think cars that aren’t driven are lame, but when you start getting into the 7 figure net worth of the product, its almost stupid to drive them, They become a investment then. Build a car, hold on to it, sell it for 2 million and retire.
But like sp71 is saying, if I had the kind of money it takes to fully restore a original 69 copo yenko, i probably have enough money to have a couple other badass cars that I can drive daily.
man… I’ll still have to dissagree.
You own a 50k house, you can throw a regular party… but when you own a 500k house, you throw a better party! I think being able to drive something that has been built to drive and enjoy should be. Just b/c its worth x amount of dollars shouldnt hinder you from enjoying what it was really built for. Maybe I love the industry too much, but any car built to be driven, despite its value, should still be driven. If its just going to sit and collect dust, then let it be a shell or a model so it can depict exactly what it is.
x2 my buddy has 3 fully restored Hertz Shelby’s and they were repainted with factory overspray & you can feel the edges of the stripes on them, lol.
none the less. SPECTACULAR job on the Camaro. redline tires will really set if off.
I defiantly understand where you are coming from, I am like that too (just like I said to sell it and buy a Ferrari that you can actually drive 
)… but I still have to disagree, why would my dad take out his 1/4 million dollar car on the shitty roads of PA with all the idiot drivers out there, when he has:
1969 SS Camaro
1969 Z28 Camaro
1969 Z28 Camaro
1966 427 4-speed Corvette Convertable
1969 396/375 Nova (not done yet)
Still even then, the Vette and Nova are worth a little over 100k each also (I think vette got appraised a lil under 150k)… I would shit if something happened to the Vette or Nova… imagine the COPO getting damaged at 2 1/2 times the value of that. Its just not worth it… my dad is a car guy as you can see and loves taking most of his cars out, but he also is not an idiot to risk someone hitting that COPO car. Also you have to look at it like this, say there pulling 250k… if his was NEVER driven after the restoration that pulled 99.9 points, he might get another 25-30k out of it on top of the value.
With all of the other cars that your dad has … its just not worth it to risk the pure valve of the copo/yenko camero … But … None the less … It still has to be temping to jump in and just cruise and enjoy it for what it is … A car …
So I agree … but disagree … Its so easy for someone to sit there and say that they would drive it and this and that … But the reality of it is … If I had that much time and money into a car … and it was worth that much money … I would keep it in a humidity controlled bubble and not let any one within a 5 feet radius of it!!
No offense to Mark & his dad’s collection…
My GTO aint exactly a POS. It may not be worth as much as the COPO Camaro, but fully restored (frame off) Tripower, 4spd hardtop '66 GTOs go for $40k & up (and rapidly climbing). That is quite valuable to me. I will drive my GTO, not as a DD, but a weekend cruiser. It will rarely ever see trailer duty, if at all. I’m not building my car as a potential sale, I’m building it for me. With that said, I don’t care what it is worth. It is a car & I will enjoy it as such.
In the case of the ultra rare cars I agree with Mark… and I’m usually a drive it like you stole it guy. Somebody has to preserve the rare ones for the future, and letting some soccer Mom in a SUV crush it isn’t going to do that. Let alone the value of them now!
BTW, how about a shipping mix-up and that thing ends up and my place instead of Elk Grove?
-TJ
no offense taken at all… I totally understand where you are coming from, and he does drive his regular 69’s on a nice spring / summer / fall day… just not the COPO… there is no reason to drive it, its an investment.
Speaking of tri-power, my dad said I couldnt believe how many of those they threw in the garbage back in the day, now there worth big $$$
x2 on that one…
hmmmm… sounds good on the shipping re-route… cut me in on it and we might have a deal!
Are you close to Elk Grove?
that and the fuel injection from back in the 50’s. now all of that is pulling massive money!
Very nice, indeed.
Well, the GTO-specific setups are fetching $1000 in poor condition (big car stuff is slightly different than GTO, but it is getting expensive, too). In “correct” restored condition, they are getting $2500. I think it is rediculous. You can buy new carbs for around $800 & a new aluminum 1966 style intake for $500, & the rest of the gingerbread shit for about $200. That’s $1500 for new stuff, but it ain’t correct for a concours resto (I’m sure you know all about that with the COPOs & such). I’m glad mine came with my car (original tripower car, too). The chrysler & big block chevy stuff is even more expensive!
Starting day 1 of buffing 
should be out of here next week.