Re: E-Bay '69 Yenko Disguised As a Z-28 Clone!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: talwell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If indeed just the firewall and cowl have been replaced - or even other parts of the body but there are remnants of the original Yenko shell still there it would be my opinion that this is still the original Yenko car. The physical transfer of cowl tag and trim tag to a new and completely different shell I believe is a rebody and therefore no longer the original car that the tags were born with.
We need to step back and employ some of the 1980's mentality and look at how this car would have been dealt with back then. Although a Yenko has always been significant, back then there most likely would not have been a priority to preserve hidden vins. It was very common to just transfer tags to new shells or cut very large parts of several shells to make one. Noone was overly concerned with originality therefore crude methods could have been used to restore a driving car. If this car was involved in a terrible accident it would explain fully why the entire or large part of the cowl & firewall were replaced. We could then only assume the original piece was determined to be scrap and used for patch panels (I remember using street signs as floor patch panels) or just discarded. </div></div>
Now this makes sense.
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