[sYc]

Joe; Neat photos. The Yenko sponsered Camaro was a 1967 Camaro. It started out as a regular steel bodied car, with the front clip changed to fiberglass, plus fiberglass doors and decklid. From the firewall back it was mostly unchanged. Now days it would be called an Altered, not a funnycar. It is known as Dick's "right hand drive" FC, since most other FCs had the driver in the center. Most of the time Dick ran it with a injection setup, but late in the year he changed to a blower on the car. It can be easily identified by the front Cragars. I have heard from a reliable source that this car is still around. Dick's next FC, his first flip top car(s) was a 1968 Camaro, which was sponsered by Courtesy Chevrolet. We are still trying to decide if Dick ran 1 or 2 FCs in 1968, as there are pictures of the 1968 car in at least three different paint schemes, 1. red with black top, 2. all red, 3. red with the lace, like his 1969 FC and the Gibb ZL-1. The reason we are researching this is because the sYc owns a 1968 Dick Harrell funnycar. In 1969, Dick could be found racing several different cars, including 2 1969 Camaro FCs (1 is still owned by Dick's daughter Val, which won the FC World Championship in 1969)and the Gibb ZL-1 Camaro. In 1970, Dick switched to the all new 1970 Camaro body, with at 2 of these cars, maybe one on a 1969 chassis. Following the 1970 Camaro, Dick then switched to the Vega body. A lot of history on Dick Harrell and his cars can be found in the history of Fred Gibb, as he much of the time they traveled/raced together. We hope to began work on the FC in the very near future, and once finished, display it at the Supercar Reunion and the Gibb reunion. Tom