Re: 1966 Yenko Stinger for sale
Here we go again, I spoke to Dana on several occassions, in order to modify the info. on his site .It is not meant to decieve and will hopefully be adjusted very soon.
There is a great deal of work involved with setting up one of these auctions and he and his crew are working literally around the clock.
Anyone who chooses to bid will have access to all the accurate info. needed prior to the auction.
Out of repect to sYc ,I will refer to the Douglass cars both Camaros and Chevelles per the instructions on this site and if sYc would like to remove the link to the Mecum site, I will not have a problem with it.
I will however not refer to any of these special cars as anything less than what they are, to please anyone.
I have secured an unbiased ,professional legal rendered opinion on the topic. (no ,I will not disclose it, get your own or purchase the car it goes with the car.)
I have stated on many occassions that my Dover White Yenko was restored and presented as a Berger Car per the info Vince Emme provided to the previous owner. I have only cleaned it up, added a few items original to the car and enjoyed it for approx. 1,000 miles this past summer.
They didn't even have any idea that it was a Jack Douglass Car at the time. It was only once an NICB report was run that it was known to have been delivered to Jack Douglass Chevrolet.
Earl,
I don't mind the question unless you qustion the validity of my statements.
I introduced the owner of that car who also happens to have owned numerous other Yenkos to Jack Douglass. He knew nothing of the Douglass COPO*Yenko story untill he heard it first from me and then Jack himself.
It was 100% up to him as what to do with the info. Some people will do anything, even change an original Yenko to aviod controversy(but that is another story)
Jack even commented about how well the stripes matched the scheme of the Dover White/ Black vinyl top cars how he could have sold more than the two he did.
I was the high bidder when he ran the car at auction years ago, as the number of people who new the Douglass story and were present could have been counted on your fingers at the time.
While many may have, I hid nothing from the seller about the Douglass Story , in which Jack says that all his COPOs were sold as Yenkos (save for the one exception which proves the rule and it was a Hugger Orange COPO which Jack wasn't aware of ).
The previous owner had told me on many occassions that it was not one of the Douglass Yenkos simply because Vince Emme had said so and Vince had a list of the "Douglass Yenkos" as well.
That was his arguement to me, and contrary to what Jack Douglass Himself had told the previous owner.
I had looked at the car a few years back, and data based the pertinant numbers, but never needed to search for evidence that the car had Yenko emblems as all were to have been sold that way. I had even resolved not to call this car by its true name untill there was more evidence provided.
ssl78 came with me when I went to pick it up. Since the car has all its original sheet metal but for one door skin, it still maintains all its since filled, body piercings for the Yenko emblems in the correct Douglass location/ fashion and it was ssl78 who pointed this out to me infront of the previous owner who had never even bothered to look and was very surprised.
When the seller Dug out his notes from discussions with prior owners,written by his own hand ,the notes also mentioned that it was striped and badged prior to the first repaint. He had thought that the notes belonged to another one of his prior cars and was surprised to see the info. in his own hand writting from many years ago. (He had this car for some time).
On another note the auction is not a "NO RESERVE" auction and has never been represented as such. None of the cars I am running are listed as NO RESERVE.
Yes they are all really for sale, but must meet my minimun financial objective. If you do not understand this format, don't agree with the way the cars are represented or believe my statements ,then do not bid on the cars. (This is not e-bay)
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