Original owner experience 69 Yenko camaro

[Les Quam]

I have been trying to track down all the old owners of my Yenko Camaro I purchased last summer from Dave Christenholtz. I was able to find and speak to the original owner this evening (thanks to members of this sight helping me locate another previous owner) and I thought I would share with you some of the experience's of the original owner the day he bought the Yenko.

Ed Flowers the original owner was looking for a smokin hot muscle car back in the summer of 69 he first looked at a 67 big block Vette and took a 428 Cobra Jet Mustang for a test drive. The salesman in the Mustang kept telling him to take it easy and was very nervous about Ed driving the car too fast on the test drive and Ed felt like the car was a dog. Ed then walked into Gates Chevrolet in Mishawaka Indiana where there were a couple of 69 Yenko Camaro's and a Yenko Chevelle just delivered from Yenko. The Chevy salesman let Ed take the Yenko Camaro for a test drive and encouraged Ed to test drive the car like he stole it, to show what the car was capable of! Ed bought the car on the spot noting the Camaro was substantially faster than the Ford and kept the Camaro as a second car for 7 years only driving it in the summer and was able to turn a 12.50 at 125 MPH at the strip in stock configuration. The day Ed bought the car he noticed it had Firestone tires on the Camaro but had EEs on the front and FFs on the back. Not wanting the Firestones with two different sizes he had the dealer remove them and put four goodyears on the car taken off another Yenko.

The original owner is going to send me some pictures from when the car is new and I will post them when I get them. I am also going to fly him out here and reunite him with his car at the end of March. I will post some pictures of that too. It is really neat to hear these old stories going back through each owner all the way back to 1969 just thought I would share.

[mockingbird812]

That's good stuff Les! You hit serious pay dirt. Looking forward to your vintage pictures. Hows 'bout a current photo of your Camaro.

Congratulations.

[Eddie M.]

Cool Story Les

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

That is a great story,very cool to find and talk to a previous owner or original owner that knows the history on your car.

[njsteve]

There's nothing like original owner stories: Makes it less a car, and more a time machine.

[MosportGreen66]

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There's nothing like original owner stories: Makes it less a car, and more a time machine.


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A history lesson or story book. Congrats!

[1969l78]

Great story

[P.J.]

Great story cant wait to hear more.
Finding the original owner of your car
is like icing on the cake. (chocolate)
PJ

[Xplantdad]

Too neat Les...thanks for sharing!

[John Brown]

Just to add a little more on the story of Ed Flowers' ownership of this Yenko. He would drag race the Camaro and liked to go faster. Whenever he would modify anything on the car he would go back to Gates Chevrolet and buy another original item like just the one he had modified so he could put the car back to the way it was before he changed it.

He was a really forward thinking guy.