Red Yenko 1967 Z-28
 

This Z-28 was recently for sale on ebay and didn't sell via the auction. I contacted the seller and we worked out a deal. I ran an NCRS report on the car and it came back as a Yenko. It's a little surprising that no previous owner elected to run a report on it but I'm not complaining! Charlie Lingenfelter had his red Yenko '67 Z on display at MCACN in 2017 and Bud Gates raced a red '67 Yenko Z-28 Stormer at Sebring. This is the third red '67 Z from Yenko. It is documented that Yenko ordered '67 Zs in three colors, Bolero Red, Ermine White, and Marina Blue and three of each color. I believe this car that I bought is the "Volpe, Pizzi, Rose" drag car that had Yenko sponsorship. I spoke to Ollie Volpe back in 2011 about the car (he confirmed he bought a red Yenko Z) as I wondered if Lingenfelter's car might be his but it turned out the history of that car was known back to new. Ollie told me that he scraped the dum-dum (sound deadener) off the inside of the door skins when preparing the car for SS/E. When I removed the door panel over the weekend I found it all scraped off like Ollie said. The doors and glass are all dated right for the car.

Great find, awesome buy!

Congrats, wonderful find.

Awesome buy!

Kool and the Gang!

Nice score, Jon. Well done.

Nice ride
 

Nice ride Jon. Thanks for sharing the info with us.

Richard

Congratulations nice find

has it been fully restored ? are there any extra holes for items like tach gauges, fuel pump, drive shaft loop, hood pins, Hurst Shifter etc?

nice find Jon. Amazing that cars are still surfacing.

Congrats again Jon! I nearly ran the NCRS report on your car when it was on eBay because I had a feeling that it might have some cool history. Glad that you did!

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Fanfriggintastic Jon also BIG Congrats!!!
I was hoping it was something good in the thread we had going here but W:headbang:W NCRS result and so glad you put everything together!
:beers:
~ Pete

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Nice find, and congratulations Jon!!!

Thanks to all of you. When I talked to Ollie Volpe in 2011, he told me that Dick Moroso drove the car after Tony Pizzi had to go into the National Guard. Dick drove the car at York and the Indy Nationals. I believe it was at Indy that the rear spring perch welds failed and pulled the driveshaft out of the back of the trans. Ollie said that really beat the floor up. This car has been restored and I see no driveshaft damage but if you're going to restore a car you're going to fix that and not leave it alone. I'm going to try going back through the ownership trail and see when it was fixed. The top of the dash looks to have had a tach mounted there in the vintage photo taken at the NHRA Springnationals at Bristol but when I crawled under the dash to look up there I could see that upper dash panel had been replaced. I'll keep looking around and see what else I can find. Some pics inside the passenger door are attached. Ollie said Grumpy Jenkins built the short block for the car and Tony Pizzi did the heads. At the end of the '67 season, the car either had a spun bearing or a cracked block, I'll have to double-check. It sat in Jere Stahl's shop over that winter and Jere told me that he used the car to mock up the first set of small block Camaro headers he made and those went to Penske for his Trans-Am car. I asked Ollie where it went after that and he couldn't remember. All he could remember is he sold it for "peanuts" in his words.

Great car.

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix 2017. Bolero red Yenko sold 1967 Z28.

That was $50 well spent!! I also find it amazing nobody ran the NCRS especially on a car like that. You probably already know this but this car was previously owned by JD who sold it to DZ. If not I have some info.

Cool!:headbang:

Great find. Identical to the one I passed up in 1971... for $1,000 because 2nd gear was a bit noisy. Talk about peanuts. No console, black standard interior.

Glad it made it to the right owner; someone who will take really good care of it.

Congratulations Jon.
Early on drag racer Jim Boburka I believe ran a red 67 Z28. He is from western Pennsylvania so possibly his car came from Yenko’s.
Awesome find Jon!

Good score!! Good thing you followed your hunch...

Jim Boburka ran a 69 and it was a wedding present from his in-laws I believe. They owned Jim Crivelli Chevrolet in McKees Rocks, PA just outside of Pittsburgh.

Very cool find! Congrats

Ditto.. Very cool. Any plans to go with the Day 2 lettering?

Beautiful car and find for sure.

Congratulations Jon! Nice piece of Yenko history for sure :)

Wow, BIG CONGRATS!!! Well done! Did you have a clue that it might be a YENKO from the eBay ad? :drool:

Thanks again to all. No, the ad gave no clue as to it being a Yenko. I have no clue about Day 2 lettering at this point. Just trying to let the dust settle a little bit and do some further research. I tried calling Ollie Volpe over the weekend on his cell phone and it went to his message, which is still his voice. He didn't pick up either time I tried but I'll try again and will hopefully get through to him.

Another 67 Z with racing history, sincere congrats Jon, awesome find!

interesting that the NCRS Shipping data report shows dealer code 900 in zone 13

Other 1967 Yenko Camaros show dealer code 899 in zone 13

1969 Yenkos show dealer code 898 in zone 13

Congratulations Jon. I know it will have a good home

In the hands of a good caretaker, awesome discovery Jon.


Mike

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Although non-original, is the engine/trans w/ the car anything noteworthy?
Also and more important, do you still have the engine from Bud Gate's Yenko Stormer?:hmmm:
More congrats Jon!!!
:beers:
~ Pete

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The engine has been painted over and looks to have no stampings so I don't know much about it. The trans has got an early April assy date stamp and the VIN on it but it is a restamp and that is backed up by other CRG member opinions. The rear axle is not original and it may have been replaced as far back as '67 depending on how badly it got torn up at the Indy Nationals. Yes, I do still have the engine from the Bud Gates Yenko Stormer Z-28. Maybe it will end up going into this car.

Although I did not know what I had at the time, I had a red /white stripe 67 just like this around 1973.
When I bought it the motor was blown so I bought a 327 out of a crashed Impala and put in it. I wanted to change wheels on it and to my dismay I could not find anything that would fit over the big brake calibers. I ended up with a set of 15/4 Cragers on the front and 15/8 with L 60's on the rear..Man was it sharp.

67z
 

Awesome

Jon, you said Yenko ordered 9 ‘67 z’s. Does that make them the highest volume ‘67 z dealer? And how many of their 9 still survive? Is that known?

Only two '67 Zs are known at this time to have survived from Yenko, both red. I don't know for sure if nine is the highest amount sent to a dealer but it seems reasonable. Clippinger, on the West Coast, may be the nearest rival. Six Zs still survive from that dealership.

Here are some pics from a former owner who I contacted earlier today. They were taken maybe 20 years ago. Previous to the restoration it had a tilt front end and chrome side pipes. It went to Canada from Georgia circa 1991. The firewall shows a patch, possibly a place where a tach cable went through previously. Somebody installed a console and gauges but the car did not come new with them. The former owner still has part of the tunnel where it was cut for an aftermarket shifter and he says there was damage to the tunnel possibly from the driveshaft as I described. It also looks like the right rear corner of the trunk has a six lug circular pattern such as that for a Carter electric fuel pump.

i can tell you guys the queen city chevrolet in cincinnati sold a heck of alot more than 9 z-28s in 1967

Jon, will this be a driver car for you or will you prep it for show only?

Richard