[GreyGhost702]

Originally Posted by Camfab

Ghost reread what you wrote. From an outside perspective it sounds pretty boisterous and silly. As it turns out, I would agree that a COPO car, especially a 632 COPO would be where I’d sink my dough, if I had $160K to spend on a car. Having said that, YENKO’s of today are far from a “shop build”, with Stickers.
Ed Hamburger headed up that operation back in the day and started SLP. SLP was good enough for GM. You can read about the history of those cars and over the years they morphed into YENKO. If you dig deeper than a simple Google search you can read about their evolution. It’s no simple task to get a car built and warrantable through an OEM, it’s huge actually.
Keep up your wrenching, it’s what Hot Rodding is all about.

What we put in text always sounds different in our minds than someone else's, I can see how it could sound a little sideways. I originally had to google search because I was confused as to which (COPO or YENKO) was the trim that wasn't available to the general public for ordering. Beyond that, I just have a general disgust for wallet gouging these days.