[Supercar_Kid]

While I've never personally removed a Yenko emblem from an untouched Yenko car, I'd have to say that at least the fender crests were attached using "push clips" in 1969. My brother owns numerous examples of original Yenko emblems, including the '69 pinned crests that have straight cylindrical pins, not tapered at the ends like a GM type emblem. Any used original examples we have ever found have had no "thread marks" on the studs as would be left by a speed nut, and most other dealers of this time used push clips to intsall their dealer name badges. (we'll use my brother's original Grossman emblem as an example, it still retain's it's original push clips) Push clips weren't anything new in '69 and they're always easier to use than trying to access the backside of a panel to install a fast/speed nut. The shape of the original pins on a '69 Yenko R/W/B crest, in addition to the lack of any we've ever found having thread marks on them leads me to believe that most if not all were attached using push pins, the exception being perhaps the easy to access tailpan emblems. Another interesting emblem note however, is the pair or original '69 Yenko Chevelle 427 emblems in my brother's collection. These 427 emblems, the type with the bar underneath, have been filed at an angle to neatly fit the eyebrow moulding on the '69 Chevelle. I believe this to be originally done at Yenko as they were removed from the car very early in it's life. Certainly not all Yenko Chevelles got this extra time consuming detail treatment, but this example shows it's safe to say that Yenko mechanics would do whatever it took to make it happen. Also interesting to note is the fact that any original 68 style Yenko 427 numerals we've dug up (the ones without the bar underneath) have had threaded studs, like fine machine screw threads not fast nut threads, which looks like evidence of these being installed with regular old square machine nuts, like the kind you'd find in an erector set, but then again these were used (most often, but not always) at the fronts of the fenders on 68 Camaros and even some 69 Chevelles, where they are easier to reach the backsides. My brother also has period photos of Yenko cars sporting both the 68 style (no bar) 427's and the 69 style (bar underneath) on the same car. So mixing and matching wasn't a problem for the Yenko mechanics either. I know of at least one '69 Yenko Camaro that was sold new at Yenko with out any crests on the fenders at all. I'd be curious to see what original untouched cars like Bill Hunter's Daytona Yellow X66 have holding the emblems on. I'd bet you'd find push clips on the fenders and hood, and perhaps nuts on the tailpan.