"...I just had a old friend stop by the office who worked for GM for about 20 years..."
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Cool story and yes certain special requests and fleet ordered Copo's were much more common than performance Copo vehicles.. Over-rides for deviations from standard RPO's weren't always a Copo but sometimes req'd as special requests and/or Fleet & Shop Order cars didn't always cover the needs and assembly line changes necessary.. Copos were first seen about 1958 and made to cover some special order vehicles including Taxis and Fire equipment trucks.. There may have even been more Copo Bell Telephone trucks made than performance Copo cars so Copo doesn't always mean it's worth anything special?!.
If at all possible and your friend is an ex GM Canada guy, please ask him if he knows anything about Canadian built 'Red Tag' vehicles.. I've had little success over the years searching for info on my '67 Biscayne 2 Dr. Post RCMP Ghost car as even GM Vintage services had nothing on the Red Tag thing...last time I asked Geo. Z. about it anyway?.
I too have the 75'th GM Book.. Lotsa' great pics and I haven't looked at mine in years but my favourite pages were always the pictures of the GM head office towers, the GM Parade of Progress Futurliners and Streamliners pics also the GM Silversides Greyhound bus shots!.
-- Edited by Ghost Post at 16:31, 2008-07-29
Heres a picture of a real 2 door RCMP 427 like yours... I used to walk by it, going to school.. The picture was in a booklet, made up for the town of Sackville N.B. I sent it to a friend, who posted it on Super car site, and everyone was trying to fiqure out the Pontiac???? I was trying to show off the 2 door 427 car (chevy) Maybe this one was your car? lol Carl
Hi Carl. That 427 Biscayne reminds me of the RCMP cars in Sackville (Bedford Detachment)Nova Scotia that were the same. There was a light blue 68 that had painted ralley wheels and small caps, followed by a 69 light green one. My neighbour across the street from where I grew up used to buy them from Bob MacDonald Chev-Olds when they got traded in. The one I remember the most was a 70 light green 454 Biscayne that would fry the studded snow tires off with a huge shower of sparks. I never took any pic's though.
The Copo that started this thread has now been reduced in price and has been offered to friends of mine at different price from about $40K to about $55K depending who in the company you talk to. As the story goes when this car was on Ebay they were sent an email and told that it was not a Copo . The same day that the auction ended was the same day that my friend was offered the car at $120 K as a Copo, so maybe they were not told that the car was fake till the last day of the auction . Knowing how many experts there are out there that watch Ebay I am sure they did not wait untill the last day to tell them of their mistake. There is now a big block corvette on Ebay that they are not sure if it is a real big block or not . It has all the right parts to be a big block car I was told but they do not have any docs to prove it . They talk in the add alot about 427 corvettes in the add but don"t come out and say the car is one . I guess they are just good used car dealers . They do sell cars for people that are honest and descibe their cars that way but maybe they should do a little more research on the cars they sell before putting their name on it .
The eBay auction ended in July so if they only found out it wasn't a real Copo car then, why were they still offering it as a real Copo car at the Calgary auction in September?.
Personally I think they knew full well it wasn't real before the eBay auction and is why they use such open ended statements in their description of the car.. And if they were honest and it was truly all a mistake, why go back and alter their descriptions of the car and remove the bogus documents after the fact?. Also, who had the fraudulent documents made up...regardless of who actually made them?.
Personally again, I think they're only admitting the truth now since they've been found out.. And 40-55K could be a good deal for the car as the clone it is although considering the trust factor these guys have displayed, I'd confirm the exact parts included w/ the car before ever laying the out the dough also be sure to immediately load the car on the trailer..
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