Re: yenko camaro
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I think it's crazy to suggest the selling dealer doesn't mean anything unless the car is an ultra-high performance model. You're telling me if you had a pair of Hemi Challengers side by side, one from Grand Spalding/Mr. Norm and one from Joe Shmoe Dodge down the street, you wouldn't pick the Mr. Norm sold car? Of course you would.
Heck, I'd take an old Chevy C10 Fleetside with a glovebox full of Yenko paper over a similar one from somewhere else... i don't know of too many folks who wouldn't.
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If they were identical cars I would probably by the Mr. Norm's car simply because I was selling Dodges new from 1968-74 about 150 miles from his dealership and heard his advertisements on WLS radio constantly. Would I pay anything extra for it, NO, not one dime.
The only two things that were different in the two example cars you use is that the Mr. Norm's car would have had a "Dyno Tuned" sticker on the window and a recurved disrtibutor which consisted of different weights in the distributor and reseting the carb when it was on the dyno. Which, BTW was done to ALL of the hipo cars that they sold AND charged extra for which at that time I believe was $20.00 or under. That is the only difference between a car sold there vs. and other Dodge dealer selling a like car.
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