1972 YENKO VEGA

Thanks Rob and Tom for the info. I will post the vin # as soon as I receive the title on Saturday. Maybe it is recorded in your documents. Is your turbo unit complete, and still for sale? I may know someone who wants it! HawaiianCamaro, as soon as I receive the car I will post the trim tag info.

[T Billigen]

Neat car Dave! Did not see to many of these around back then. Does anyone know how many different colors they came in?

[sYc]

According to an add from 1971, 5 colors, white, blue, grren, red and silver. Tom

[sYc]

I have the turbo unit only, but the remaining parts would not be too hard to find/build, as I have complete instructions with part numbers, and even a couple of pictures of the unit on a Vega. As per selling it, I did offer it once, but that was before I had recieved all of the other items to go with it. I may hang on to it now, in case some day I decide to acquire a Yenko Vega for myself. Tom

[Schonyenko2]

In 1972 or73, was driving through Wisconson dells, on our way to Eagle River, coming down the driveway of one of the many motels was a sunflower yellow Yenko vega, black stripes, spoilers, etc. It was coming down an incline and you could hear the turbo whining as he had it in a lower gear. I remember thinking that it looked like the little brother to the deuce I had at home. I may be old, and senile, but somewhere out there is, or was, a code 52 yellow Yenko vega.
Ken

[JChlupsa]

If i remember right there was one (yellow) in Monroe WS, around the same time frame..

[Edited by HawaiianCamaro (04-20-2002 at 01:45 AM).]

[JoeC]

Here is a picture of a yellow Yenko Stinger Vega prototype. The stripes are different then the production car. I have another picture of this car that shows a Chevy Manufacturer license plate on it. Chevy was working on turbo cars in the early seventies. They also had a prototype turbo Nova that was in a magazine article. Jerry Thompson was a Chevy engineer who drove the Yenko Stinger (Corvair) to an SCCA Championship in 1967 and he stated in an article that he remembers working on a turbo Vega at Chevy. Maybe Don was given info on the turbo Vega after Chevy decided not to market the car.

Tom, the vin is 1v77b2u357061 . It has the posi rear with anti-hop bars, matching drivetrain, and forged aluminum pistons. Any other signs to look for?

Tom, found anything? Ed supplied me with COPO verification and new car invoice. I just located broadcast sheet under rear seat. It actually lists the COPO order #, dealer order #, etc. I found two shop towels with bolts placed neatly in the cutouts where the anti-hop bars were attached under the rear seat. I would assume Yenkos crew put them there. Pretty neat, I thought maybe it would be something a little more special!

[sprchvy]

I distinctly remember later Yenko Vegas in a copper color. Would this be a later year, maybe '73? After reading this string I sadly recall seeing this disassembled Yenko in the garage nextdoor to my inlaws for the better part of 10 years. This was in the Oak Forest, IL area dating back in the 1980's. Anyone know where it ended up?