A street legal COPO Camaro can happen. Proof!

[Z/28Dan]

Awesome doesn't come close to describing this.

[nosmr2]

I saw it outside my hotel in Austin. Had I known what I was looking at, I would have gone and taken a closer look.

[mlee]

Pretty damn cool he did the long haul.

[Nick S]

Originally Posted by mlee

Pretty damn cool he did the long haul.

AND averaged 20mpg's+ with 800+ HP LS7! How do you keep your right foot out of the gas pedal with that much fun on tap!!

[Ragnar]

That is pretty bad ass right there!!!!!!!!!!

[ForgedReality]

How the **** does he have so much money!? :O I wish I had his life. :(

[Kid]

20 mpg?! that's the most impressive part of the story. I guess the light weight helps a lot.

[Clark Grizwald]

Originally Posted by Lucely Engineered

So he bought a stripped base model built with drag parts for over $100k. He then added things to bring it back to a street legal Camaro. Dont get me wrong, COPOs are cool, i just dont understand why people dont just buy a $20k base model, strip it themselves and put all the parts they really want in there. Then they have a vin number and license plate already.

Here you go.......the video is cool!

http://www.cavalierperformancecars.com/videos/

http://www.cavalierperformancecars.com/the-cars/

[EFI]

and has logged over 1000 miles averaging over 20 miles per gallon.

Somehow I don't buy this. A supercharged 7 liter with a 3 speed non OD transmission is not getting anywhere near 20mpg...much less over that number. That thing is sitting at 3000+ rpms on the highway and the engine ain't no fuel sipper at that point (or any for that matter).

Cool car nonetheless.

[TommyTheCat]

Street legal til you get to CA, I would guess.

[Thor142]

Originally Posted by Clark Grizwald

Here you go.......the video is cool!

http://www.cavalierperformancecars.com/videos/

http://www.cavalierperformancecars.com/the-cars/

Sweet burnout. If that was a Mustang he would have lost control and took out the camera man. LOL


I kid I kid

[NVERL8TE]

I talked to the owner at one of the stops on the Power Tour this year, very cool car and first I've ever heard of one being licensed for the road.

[stand-al0ne]

Pretty sweet - and yea I dont think the high cost was a reason for him to avoid doing this since he has 4 other COPO's. Would be cool to see in person

[Sandman799]

Originally Posted by Lucely Engineered

So he bought a stripped base model built with drag parts for over $100k. He then added things to bring it back to a street legal Camaro. Dont get me wrong, COPOs are cool, i just dont understand why people dont just buy a $20k base model, strip it themselves and put all the parts they really want in there. Then they have a vin number and license plate already.

Your missing the point, he WANTED to make a COPO street legal, so if he were to just go out and buy a standard already street legal Camaro and strip it and add what you wanted isn't the same thing as taking a race built non street legal COPO Camaro and Turing the beast into a street legal racing car, the COPO was made for racing but not on the street circuit, so to "cheat" a little he took a big non street legal racing beast and made it street legal for the street circuit or whatever you want to call it, so it's just to say look at me I got lots of money to throw away and I'm going to do what they told me I couldn't do, why? Because I'm rich and I can do whatever I want!!!!! It's really just showing off and being too lazy to take and make a factory street legal car into something that'll blow away others cars but instead just throwing lots of money to have other do the work for him where us normal folks have to skimp and save and buy the parts and do the work ourselves