cheap Yenko
 

140K? WTF?

http://mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail...=DA1011-114957

Re: cheap Yenko
 

aaaaaahhhhh extensive sheetmetal restoration...gotcha. Been there.

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Why would that make it so cheap unless by extensive sheetmetal restoration they mean it was re-bodied.

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that and the fact that it is an automatic. 4 speeds always bring more money IMHO

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whoops, just remembered this thing was discussed here a while back...but i can't find the post now. A couple of members discussed the car...passionately. I think there were issues with the hidden VINs, but not sure.

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This car was discussed recently,,but some of the prior threads seem to have disappeared..???

Apparently, the three VINs and the cowl/dash section are original to the Yenko, but they were the ONLY original parts to the original Yenko body. Fellow members, feel free to correct me if I have stated that incorrectly.

Also, according to a fellow member here, the buyer apparently was unaware of the exact meaning of 'extensive sheetmetal restoration' in Mecum's description when he bought the car...

He probably paid 50-75k too much..imo

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One of the most interesting topics related to rare muscle cars is the question when is it no longer the original car. That is why this site, the people that know the cars and others things that track these rare cars become so valuable. Documentation, owner history and people that know the cars keep the best of the best on their deserved pedestal. Other cars, clones are still great cars just should probably never get on the pedestal.

Lee

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Hey, show me a Yenko for 50-75,000 less than what that car brought and I will buy them all!!!
That car was a bargain period.
Holub sold his rebodied ZL-1 290,000, his rebodied 69 Yenko
for 270,00 ,and his 70 yenko for 100,000. Again that car was a bargain.

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img] Gary had rebodied cars? Really? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]















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B-J revised the program to reflect that Gary's cars had been rebodied, so the buyers knew what they were bidding on. I'm betting that they have buyers remorse now.
I've always been curious to know what actually was done to this car. Was a real Yenko firewall installed, or was it just all of the exterior sheetmetal?
Anyway, when you look back &amp; see what Mark B's Canadian COPO and the RG Roger Dean COPO sold for, it's easy to come to the conclusion that someone overpaid for this one 'if' it's been tampered with.JMO

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I always thought the blue Yenko was a very nicely done car, rear body clip or not. It had its original engine and BE rear. If all that is technically useable is the firewall/roof, etc. then thats all that can be used. I was always such a purist in terms of original metal, but the reality is quite a few of these cars need quite a bit of new metal, better original than repro. Fix what needs to be fixed and document what is done.
Jude, my silver Copo that just sold at Mecum was a nicely done car with canadian docs, original M22, original BE, non original 427, never removed trim tag, &quot;the&quot; original interior, &quot;the&quot; original body with quarters replaced, original floors, original trunk floor, etc. I thought it was a good buy on a no issue car. I never thought the market was over $ 150k on such a car, with only one bidder on my car, the market is not hot for a NOM Copo right now.
I know the owner of the no docs rallye green NOM Copo at Barrett last year thought it never stopped rolling across the stage. I didn't see that one sell, who knows.
Mark

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I never thought that a rear body clip constituted rebody status, nor did I realize that the eng/trans was orig to the car, so it probably was a well bought car.
Your Cortez COPO was awesome and personally thought it was easily a 150K car with the orig rear, trans, doc's, great color &amp; restoration...it was a steal imo.
The RG COPO bids seemed to stop as soon as other bidders saw who was bidding on it (R Childress??)&amp; it hammered @ 107 and I think I read somewhere that the resto cost 100K...but who knows, I'm just an outside observer these days.
Does it make sense to restore anything (for resale) these days? If I had untubbed my COPO would it be worth any more or less? Drag strip survivors certainly should hold some significance in the hobby, but it seems that day1 cars are still what the 'investor/collector' wants. Anyway, I feel fortunate to be 'stuck' with a Scuncio car with interesting race history.