[bkhpah]

The difference in these cars is clear. A Harrell car was converted by Harrell and his crew regardless of were the car was sold. Most of the time Bill Allen was the supplier. Allen did not do the conversion. The Nickey/Thomas connection is advertised as such. No mystery there. Berger did their thing etc, etc. If Douglass skipped the very first rule of getting the cars from Yenko Sports Cars, clearly this is not a Yenko. It does not matter that the cars are 9561/9737 cars to me. Douglass was not in my opinion the clear manifacture of these cars like Harrell or Bill Thomas. I have one 9737 COPO from Prout that I am doing now along with Shor's Douglass. The Prout is not a Yenko, but it seems there would be an argument from the Prout owners that since their cars are 9737 cars it could be a Yenko. Douglass bypassed the system and later seemed he could not sell the cars without the stripes. The Douglass cars are very unique and desirable to many, I just cannot accept any Yenko connection. This whole argument would not even exsist it Yenko was to be the sole distributor of the cars. He and Gibb got the ball rolling with Chevrolet by laying down the groundwork for special hi-performance chevrolets starting many years before the Camaro's came along. Yenko was the inovator for these cars. Every COPO owes him that...BKH