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Hemi Cuda in 1983 for $ 6000, no money in college and didn't sell my '69Z to try and buy it. The 66 GT350 that I looked at about 10-12 years ago, stored since '69 with the plates from '69 still on it, carryover car, white/blue stripe, all there, needing light resto for $ 30k. I was told they were only $ 40k restored at the time, oops.

The tired '69 Yenko Camaro, ugly blue/primer with no motor or trans needing everything for $ 28k in '97. They were about $ 60k restored at the time, didn't make sense and I let a friend at the time buy it. I found the dealer paperwork for it later that year, shipper copy, dealer invoice etc. It was the first serial numbered '69 Yenko Camaro and sold for big money after restored, oops again. I was also offered the last Yenko Camaro built, an original owner car, but that was way out of my price range.

The one that started the Yenko searching for me was a black painted '69 Camaro parked on the streets of Chicago near the lakefront in '86 or so. I drove by this car with a for sale sign that said "Yenko 350 for sale", well it has to be a fake, they had 427s of course. Nothing but a Yenko tailpan emblem would indicate anything Yenko at all. I left and never called the seller, who wanted something like $ 6,500 at the time. Months later I found out that the car had been bought, it was a Jack Douglas sold Yenko, Rally green 4 speed. At least that started my searching and let to my discovery of many Yenko cars and friendships over the years.