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Verrillo began poring over the car, lifting the rear carpets to find the original silver color under the yellowed carpet glue, and the jack compartment with the original blue paint. When I saw the ‘001’ paint code, which didn’t correspond with any of the standard codes, I knew it was something special.” “I thought the color combination was very elegant, and it drew me…immediately. “I was looking for a small-block 1967 roadster and stumbled across this interesting car,” Verrillo says. At least, that’s 24 vehicles claimed to be COPOs. The small-block roadster you see on these pages-Silver Pearl with a non-standard blue-and-white interior-makes 23, and its owner, Joe Verrillo, says he knows of another with an identical paint scheme in Iowa, but it’s a 427/435 car.
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So far, that unofficial COPO search rings up 22 ’67 Corvettes. There were also 13 Corvettes reportedly ordered as Shriner “patrol” (that is, parade) vehicles in Nebraska. They include a 427 roadster ordered by legendary GM stylist Bill Mitchell, who personally oversaw the car’s assembly (it was a gift for his wife) a customized coupe for Bob Wingate, who had been the country’s best-selling Corvette salesman for five years in a row (see our September 2006 issue) an Elkhart Blue coupe with a blue leather interior (black and teal were the only standard interior colors available with that paint shade) a 427/390 roadster painted Elkhart Blue with a Goodwood Green stinger and green interior and five cars special-ordered by Chevrolet painted Silver Pearl with red interiors (like Elkhart Blue, Silver Pearl was only officially available with a black or teal gut). Indeed, during our non-scientific search for known COPO cars, we came up with at least 24 claimed COPOs. You’ll get a different figure depending on whom you ask, with some insisting that only 10 COPO Corvettes were built, while others suggest that the total is closer to 25, or possibly more. In 1967, there were a small number of COPO Corvettes built. Mostly, that meant special, non-production equipment for fleet trucks or police cars, which required approval from Chevy’s manufacturing or engineering departments.
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The acronym stands for “Central Office Production Order,” and it was used by Chevrolet dealers to obtain all kinds of vehicle combinations that weren’t listed on the standard order sheet. When you hear the term “COPO,” you typically think of ’69 Camaros equipped with Corvette-derived 427 engines, but there were COPO Corvettes, too.