Yenko Interview

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None of the 4 speed cars came with a console. There is a hugger orange X11 auto car out there that reportedly came with a console originally, but i can't verify that to be true. I've seen the car, and it indeed has a console in it now, but was unable to see underneath to verify if the console was added later on or indeed factory equipped. If memory serves correctly, this console equipped auto did not have console gauges. The car may even belong to a member here, as I recall seeing it at one of the early Supercar Reunions years ago. In any case, with the possible exception of that car, the automatics were delivered to Yenko as a column shift TH400 and were converted to a floor shift using a Hurst Dual Gate setup. All of the cars were equipped with the standard interior, black only. When speaking of Yenko cars, its good to always use the phrase "most of the time" rather than "always", as there are a few oddball cars out there that may fall outside of the norm, with details that may vary a bit from the Yenko standard practice for conversions. Most of these "oddball" cars were cars sold directly off the yenko lot in Canonsburg PA vs. ones that were built to be shipped to the various dealers within the nationwide Yenko network. It seems as though Yenko would geneally do (or not do) basically anything the customer wanted in order to sell the car, and while "most" were built similarly, there are a couple notable exceptions.