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Old 12-31-2003, 06:37 PM
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Default Re: 1968 Yenko Copo Camaro/ Non converted car

Tom Billigen made the comment that he bought the car in September 1968 at Kenny Ross, and had no idea it was a Yenko car. In fact, he said he assumed all L78's had the 140 speedo. All of us who lived in Pgh at the time knew about Yenko, so unless Tom crawled from under a rock the day he bought the car from Kenny Ross, it's fair to assume his car had no Yenko sticker on the window, and no yenko badging. Since the 69's were about to be introduced, dealers would be clammering to unload 68's. It is reasonable to assume that Yenko transferred this car to Kenny Ross in the same manner as he would have transferred an Impala station wagon.

Is this a Supercar? In my opinion, a 9737 without the L72 engine transplant is no more a supercar than the 70 Camaro with the COPO spoiler. I mean no disrespect to anyone's car. In fact I, personally would prefer to have an unconverted COPO 9737 L78 than a Yenko conversion. (resale value aside) But it's up to other, much more involved folks than I, to determine if it should be considered a Supercar.

In any case, I am glad for Tom to have his old car back, and hope he can reunite it with the original L78 motor.
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