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Old 09-22-2000, 12:00 PM
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Default Re: Yenko's plans for '71

I talked to the Service Manager at Yenko about the time the first Yenko Vegas arrived . He got a call that a load of Vegas would be arriving and that he needed to check them in. Little did he know that about 4 truck loads arrived that night with more to come later. He told me that they had to deal with more Vegas at once than he had ever seen. Also he told me that the Vega Turbo's that they built using BORT {balls out race team} turbo systems would out run the local Hemi cars until fouth gear! Not bad, reliability on the Turbo versions were not good. They had lots of sealing problems. Still a very inovative machine for the times when gas was hard to get and the true big block muscle car was dying a cruel death. I would like to hear from some owners of these little rockets. Are they all gone? I wonder what the build count one these cars were.
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