Re: Stripe delete Yenkos
There may have been some stripe delete 67 Yenko Camaros.
I believe most of 67 Yenko Camaro SS427 cars came with the factory SS nose stripe and a side pin stripe that was mandatory with SS Camaro package. Yenko could have ordered special 1967 Yenko Camaros with SS stripe delete. I have not heard of any but Yenko would have had to special order the cars to not get the SS nose and pin stripe. There was at least one 1968 Yenko 427 Camaro with stripe delete. It has a dash paint code on the trim tag. The original owner said the car came with no SS nose stripe and Yenko then added a 1967 SS style nose stripe which is different then the 68 SS stripe. I have found 4 documented 67 Yenko Camaros with a dash on the trim tag but not in the paint code field. My 67 has the dash but the original owner said the car came with the factory nose and pin stripe so I don't think the dash was for special paint. I found the dash on half of the 67 Yenkos I have info on and think it was for some type of special order for Yenko. Some of the 67 Yenko Camaros may have been ordered by Yenko using the COPO or fleet car system. Yenko did this in 1966 with the Stinger so he could have done it with the 67 Camaro factory BB cars. There were only 1138 L78 Camaros built in 67 which is less then two per dealer and Yenko received about 50 1967 L78 Camaros. So I think that some type of special order may have been used to get the 1967 cars and get special pricing on them which Yenko was always trying to get on his COPO cars. I also have some original Yenko paperwork where Yenko requested special COPO cars in 1967. It is a request so I don't know if he ever was allowed to get it. Still need to work on this but hard to find good info.
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