The 69 COPO L72 427 Chevelle

[Nashville Cat]

Rare Rides: The 1969 Chevy Chevelle COPO L72

The 1969 Chevy Chevelle COPO L72 was one of fastest and most scarce performance cars of the 1960s. In this episode of Rare Rides, we take a look at this unicorn of muscle.

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[cage2592]

That Orange is so amazing on that car !

 

[Shovelrick]

I use to ride in a friends 69 Daytona yellow L78 4 spd Chevelle back in 76 and it was an eye opener I could only imagine riding in an L72 Chevelle back then PS the L78 was really 425hp wonder what the L72 was

 

[cheveslakr]

Probably add another 25 hp providing it had good exhaust.

 

[Nashville Cat]

I had a friend who has since passed, Fred Ficarra from Team Camaro, who bought a 69 L78 Camaro brand new.
He had only had it one year when he yanked the L78 and installed a 427.
Here is a real pic of his car that I took. He's on the left