Re: X-11 Yenkos
Here is some info found on the net,
Bill Thomas was a service manager at C. S. Mead Chevrolet in Pasadena, Ca.. Bill briefly road raced a white 1956 Corvette.
Bill Thomas and sprint car designer Don Edmunds worked together to put a fuel-injected 327 into a modified sprint car tube-frame chassis and enclose it in a stylized coupe body with a 90" wheelbase. Called a Cheetah, it was designed to compete with the Cobras. 1963-64
Jim Jefford drove for Chicago based Nickey Chevrolet in 1958. Jeffords was virtually unbeatable as he easily took the titles in 1958 and 1959 in the Nickey Chevrolet "Purple People Eater" Corvette.
Dick Harrell started racing at the age of 14. After 3 years in the army, Dick got back into racing and by the mid sixties, he was traveling all over the country to race. In 1965 he went to work for Nickey Chevrolet and after a couple years started his own performance shop in St. Louis, Mo. (fromZ/28 web site)
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