#209 This Butternut Yellow 69 Yenko Chevelle was sold new at V.V. Cooke Chevrolet in Louisville KY. I believe this car still has its original engine and rearend. It was restored by Dave Tinnel. It is currently a heater and radio delete car. I know the heater delete isn't factory and I'm not sure about the radio delete. It was featured in the April '95 issue of Muscle Car Review when it was owned by Rusty Symmes. It was also owned by M. Guarise and B. Gagliano. It was part of Tom Abrams collection and sold for $220K at Mecum Indy '22.

Yes the rear end and motor are both original in this butternut yellow car. It did have the radio in the car when I sold it to Rusty but he deleted it and the heater. If my memory serves me right I think it was all original sheet metal as well.

#210 This Cranberry Red 70 Yenko Deuce is W351186 and was sold new at Loehmann Chevrolet in Waterbury CT. This car doesn't have its original engine. I'm not sure about the transmission. It was restored by Neal Robbins who sold it to Frank Magallon. He showed and raced it at a number of the Supercar Reunions where in ran in the 13.30's. It was part of Tom Abrams collection and sold at Mecum in Indy for $135K. This car did not set at all level. The driver side rear was lower than the passenger side rear and the passenger side front was higher than the driver side front. I looked like it needed new springs in back.

#211 This Forest Green 70 Yenko Deuce is W349789 and was sold new at W.R. Austin Chevrolet in Norwalk CT to M. McDonald. It has also been owned by M. Price and J. Jarvis. It has a CE block, non-original transmission and its original rearend. It appears to have just undergone a fresh restoration. It looked nice but had some reproduction and other incorrect items under the hood. It sold for $125K at Mecum Indy '22.

Yes, this is the same Yenko.

My good friend Mark's old Deuce ... RIP Mark

#212 This Tuxedo Black 69 Camaro COPO is N661680 and was sold new at Mac's Chevrolet-Olds in Crete NE to Vic Keller. This is an automatic car with a column shift. It was restored by Frank Payne and was at the Chevy Vette Fest in '03. It is now owned by Jim Stubbings from Heartbeat City. It is currently on display at the Gilmore Museum. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it.

Would those be the correct tires? Redlines? For the Camaro, didn't Chevy switch over to the RWL Wide Tread E70s by the time the COPOs were being made?

COPOs 9560 & 9561 probably required ordering an optional tire.

Original docs for N661680 still exist; built with PL5 F70 x 14 RWL tires as were most of them. But could have been ordered with PW8 F70 x 14 Red Stripe Tires.

Only COPOs ordered with #9737 received E70 x 15 tires.

Of the eight COPOs Mac's sold, only one known to exist. Also sold ZL-1 #22.

What about this Mac’s COPO?

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthre...highlight=Macs

Sounds like they didn't sell it.

#213 This LeMans Blue 69 Yenko Nova is W394259 and is on the 69 Nova Yenko VIN list. The body number is WRN254955 which puts it one body number after the ex Keith Hutson Rallye Green Nova and one body number before the ex Tom Clary LeMans Blue Nova. According to the other thread on this site this car was sold new through Dale Chevrolet in Waukesha WI. This car currently has a NOM 396 and a BV1218G1 rearend. It was posted that documentation was found that this car was a 427 transplant car. I don't know who currently owns this car. It was apparently just purchased from the guy who posted pictures of it on FB. It's a great find and hopefully more information will come out on it.

Does anyone know if anyone of the 427 Yenko Nova's was Glacier Blue in color?

Does anyone know if any of the 427 Yenko Nova's was Glacier Blue in color?

#214 This 69 COPO Camaro is N619394 and according to its NCRS paperwork it was shipped new to Mac's Chev. Olds in Crete NE. As far as I know it is the only known COPO that is Garnet Red with a white vinyl top and red deluxe interior. This is also an original drivetrain car with 29K miles. According to the original owner he purchased the car in Lincoln NE. Crete is only 20 miles or so from Lincoln so it may have been dealer transferred. The car spent its early years in CO and was wrecked and put into storage in '77. It went to KS in '83 and remained in storage until a couple of years ago when the restoration began. From looking at some of the pre restoration photos the car was fairly complete but needed the passenger side sheet metal replaced. This car was restored by Big Creek Restoration in Ellis KS. This car was judged in the Milestone program and scored 4,935 out of 5,000 points for 98.7%. J. Fairleigh had this car at the show. This was one of my favorite cars at MCACN this year.

hopefully, J. Fairleigh will contact me so that we can get the necessary docs to add this car to the registry. We spoke at MCACN.

#215 This well-known 69 Yenko Camaro is N578812 and was sold new at Gates Chevrolet in Mishawaka IN to Bill Hunter. I believe everyone knows the story of how Bill purchased a Hugger Orange Yenko Camaro from Gates and proceeded to blow the engine the first night he owned it. The next day he went back to the dealership and replaced that car with this one. It is an unrestored car with 65K miles and still has its original engine. It still has its original window sticker and POP as well. It was raced with a number of other engines in it over the years. D. Beem purchased the car from Bill a number of years ago. Unfortunately, Bill died not long ago. I was trying to take some pictures of Dave's three Yenkos at the show, but whenever I walked past there was always a crowd around them. Dave was nice enough to take some time Saturday night to let me take some good pictures of them.

#216 This Fathom Green 69 Yenko Camaro is N614648 and was sold new at Hult Chevrolet in Madison WI. This car was owned by Mike Beggin for a number of years before Dave Beem purchased it. Dave did a complete restoration on it and just finished it up earlier this year. I believe he said this was a Gold Concours winner at the show.

I remember seeing a Fathom Green Yenko Camaro with the black Yenko stripes that was really ragged out in Pittsburgh around 1984-ish. Looked like a daily driver and had an SCCA sticker on the rear bumper. Always wondered what happened to it.

The only Fathom Green 69 Yenko Camaro with black stripes that I know of is N663482. I believe that car was from the Pittsburg area. It was restored in the mid 90's and owned by Brian Henderson at one time. I've never seen it in person and don't know its whereabouts today.

Thanks for the info, I bet that was it.

My dad was the 2nd owner of that car. He purchased the car in the 1973-74 range from the original owner (Larry Lowe). He bought the car on a Wednesday and blew the motor up Friday night at Keystone Raceway Park. He raced the car for years at Keystone Raceway and Peterson Memorial Dragway (Tipton, PA). The car ran 11.70s with a 427, Hurst V-Gate, and 5.13s. In the 1980s he cloned it as a Z/28 with a candy-apple green paint job. Sold it to a gentleman locally in the 80s who I believe sold it to Brian, who restored the car.

The car was a drag raced from day one until my dad sold the car. My dad says that once the car got put back on the street with a car seat (ME) in the back seat it never felt the same. So, he sold it to get into Corvettes and street rods.

Hearing the stories of that car as a kid is what caused me to fall in love with Camaros. That is my all time favorite Camaro.


The Lowe family and my dad were drag racers and not SCCA racers. The car as Fathom Green was drag raced.

Few Pictures of the car. Picture of the car after its restoration. Picture of the car when Matt's Dad had the car painted candy-apple green. July 31,1974 Indiana Gazette newspaper ad that Larry Lowe posted the car forsale. When Larry passed away several years ago his phone number was the same as it was in this ad from 1974.

Geez, the typesetter at the newspaper sucked at their job!


Really cool pics :headbang::headbang::headbang:

When in the 80's did your dad do the Candy Green paint? Do you recall it having the SCCA sticker on it when your dad had it?

#217 This LeMans Blue 69 Yenko Camaro is N615068 and it was shipped from Yenko to Broadway Chevrolet in Green Bay WI. It may have been dealer transferred to Hult Chevrolet in Madison WI and sold through there. This is an unrestored car with 27K miles. I believe this car has a CE block, but it still has its original transmission and rearend. This car was owned by Donny Hood for a number of years. Dave Beem recently purchased it and had it at the show.

It made a person notice the ad more.

69 Copo I
 

Seen where Ron contacted Super Chevy in May of 85 talking about this car had 7877 miles then.

#218 This Rallye Green 69 Yenko Camaro is N615076 and was sold new at Yenko Chevrolet to Clyde Krug. This car was also previously owned by Jude Hettick. I don't believe this car has any of its original drivetrain. It was also missing its smog setup. This car was part of the Mecum Display and will be at the Kissimmee Auction in January.

Do you know if there were any Fathom Green with white stripes from around the Pittsburgh area back then? Just curious, thanks and Merry Christmas!

From the information I have there were three other Fathom Green Camaros sold out of Yenko in '69, but only one of those is a known car. It was owned by Vickie Koss in the late 80's and was restored. There was also one sold in Youngstown OH that is a known car. It was restored by Randy Miller in the mid 90's. I don't know if either of those cars was in the Pittsburg area in the mid 80's or not.

This Tuxedo Black 69 COPO Camaro is N690437 and is an M22 car with 4.56 gears that was sold new at Maxton Chevrolet in Columbus OH to Joseph Patrick. I posted pictures of this car on here a number of years ago when it was at MCACN in '10 when Doug Perry owned it. This car does not have its original engine or transmission. It sold at Mecum Indy in The Bid Goes On for $305K.

#219 This LeMans Blue 69 Yenko Camaro was sold new at Francis Chevrolet in Brighton MO. This car has been for sale several times on the Legendary Motorcar website. It's also on their site under Restorations so I assume they restored it as well. As you can see from the trim tag it is an X44 car with the X11 trim added. It also has a black tail panel which is only correct for the first 50 X66 cars. It doesn't have its original engine but someone posted on here several years ago that they had it or knew where it was. This car hammered for $265K at Mecum Indy.

Would headers been correct on a Yenko Camaro? Were they an option or day 2 add-on?

Headers, scatter shields, traction bars and Atlas mags among other things were optional on 69 Yenko Camaros as dealer add-ons. From what I've heard Yenko's mechanics would do whatever modifications the customer wanted. I know some cars had the modifications done before they left the lot and others were brought back in for Day 2 mods.

#220 This Fathom Green 69 ZL-1 Camaro is N612913 and is #36 of 69 built. It was sold new at Fred Gibb Chevrolet in La Harpe IL. It does not have its original engine. I'm not sure about the rest of the drivetrain. Chuck Huber restored this car for Joe Zrostlik back in '06. It was featured in the May '07 issue of Muscle Car Review. This car was at the Gilmore Museum for a year or so before ending up in the Shed Collection. It hammered for $700K at Mecum Indy. I'm not sure who purchased it.

Found this with some other pics of the SD, and the hand written letter of the car and engine info, don't know who ended up with the car, a good deal at 25K back then

I recognized that backdrop right away -

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#221 This Daytona Yellow 69 Camaro COPO is N620719 and was sold new at Bryne Brothers Chevrolet in White Plains NY. This is a double COPO car and only had 3.9K miles when F. Arone purchased it. It was an ex drag car and was missing its original drivetrain so in the process of restoring it with his son Caleb they decided to Day 2 it. It does have an MN block that is topped with a tunnel ram and backed by an M22. This car was featured in the December '17 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines. R. Snyder currently owns this car and brought it to MCACN in '23.

Love this car it’s spectacular BUT I’d prefer it with cragars or rockets, raidir polished , something w some flash Vs dark but knowing it’s owner is young they tend to like the dark color wheels so I get it.