Yenko Driven Race Car for sale

[YenkoRacecar]

Two friends and I have a 1968 Corvette race car that was raced by Don Yenko in the 1979/1980 time period. The car was converted to a race car in 1970 in New York City and raced throughout the eastern US in the 70s.

In 1978, Kim Mason, a Manager for Yenko Chevrolet, bought the car and he and Don Yenko raced it throughout 1979 and 1980, including at the 1980 24 hours of Daytona – car number 16. (Results of the race can be found on the Internet by searching on International Motorsports Association and going to the classicscar link for the old results – not to the current IMSA web site.) A picture of the car with Yenko driving at Mid-Ohio is in the December/January, 1981 issue of Corvette News. It has a log book dating to 1972.

The car is listed on Ebay, item # 180303893890 with more info in the Ebay write-up. Following the guidelines in the post on ads, my contact info is listed below. The starting price on the Ebay ad is $25,000 and we will sell it for $50,000 and close the Ebay listing. If you are interested, please call me for more info and/or take a look at the car in Marietta, OH.

Bob Cook
[email protected]
610-274-1447

[mockingbird812]

Poke here!

[YenkoRacecar]

Thanks Sam! I didn't know how to do that.

[ChevyThunder]

I actually have three cars that ran the 1980 24 hour race and thought I may have pictures of the Yenko vette but unfortunatley I do not .

For those interested this car would qualify for the FIA/IMSA class/race group at the Monterey Historics with all the Porsche RSRs , 934s, 935s , Ferrari BB's , Greenwood Vette's , etc. The Corvette's are very popular . Very reasonably priced historic car that you can go racing with at all the swanky events . Ooops , did the price just go up

[YenkoRacecar]

Thanks ChevyThunder! If you do come across any pictures of our Corvette in the 1980 24 hour race, we would really like to see them. The car does have a log book and will qualify for all of the vintage race groups with which I am familiar.

And no, the price did not go up!

[redvetracr]

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I actually have three cars that ran the 1980 24 hour race and thought I may have pictures of the Yenko vette but unfortunatley I do not .

For those interested this car would qualify for the FIA/IMSA class/race group at the Monterey Historics with all the Porsche RSRs , 934s, 935s , Ferrari BB's , Greenwood Vette's , etc. The Corvette's are very popular . Very reasonably priced historic car that you can go racing with at all the swanky events . Ooops , did the price just go up

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"qualify" yes, "competitive" no....

[ChevyThunder]

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I actually have three cars that ran the 1980 24 hour race and thought I may have pictures of the Yenko vette but unfortunatley I do not .

For those interested this car would qualify for the FIA/IMSA class/race group at the Monterey Historics with all the Porsche RSRs , 934s, 935s , Ferrari BB's , Greenwood Vette's , etc. The Corvette's are very popular . Very reasonably priced historic car that you can go racing with at all the swanky events . Ooops , did the price just go up

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"qualify" yes, "competitive" no....

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I know but there are plenty of guys driving 6/10ths in that gig... even with the problems with an unsorted car I made short work of the Greenwood and moved through the field




Ooops.. that's not you is it