The 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle COPO did not start life as a showroom hero. It was a quiet corporate workaround that let a handful of dealers slip a race-bred 427 into Chevrolet’s mid-size body, creating ...

Introduced in 1964 as a competitor for the downsized Ford Fairlane, the Chevrolet Chevelle morphed into a fully-fledged muscle car by the end of the decade. That's nothing unusual for a golden-era ...