Cadiz Ohio Yenko's

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Little Cadiz Ohio was hot bed of musclecars back in the day. 5k population but all highly paid union coal miners.

Numerous Yenkos and Copos. People would come from surrounding states to shop at Coultraps Speed shop. Coultrap installed everything they sold. People would drop off a brand new car in the morning and pick it up later in the day with a new intake, carb, headers and wheels etc. Doc Dixon worked behind the coungter and Coultraps sponsored at my last count over 50 cars including Fink Bros out lof Zanesville, Hiner and Miller from Akron etc. Sponsored cars from PA as well.

Here is a 69 Yenko Chevelle in ad out of Cadiz. The guy who owned the car still lives there. I'm going to visit him later this week. He is in his mid 80's now. The Hemi and Buick GS are all within a few miles of Cadiz.

The 67 Yenko in the pictiure still sits in a garage in Cadiz. It is either the first one made or the first one sold I cannot remember. The original owner got mad at Don Yenko and took a screwdriver and yanked of the emblems and threw them at Don from across the parking lot.