yenko camaro

[bkhpah]

Not his gradmother, it was his Aunt Penny..If you got the deal at Kenny you get a jar of Aunt Penny's jelly.. This car was sold new at Kenny Ross. It is believed dealer traded by Yenko. The original owner never knew it was a Yenko COPO 9737 Camaro. I refound this car at a local Camaro meet near the Pittsburgh Airport,and Frank Arone tried to buy it. The deal for what ever reason did not get done. I remember it was painted black and had KILLER interior. For some reason the entire original interior was never reused in the restoration. Instead it had 100% repo door panels etc installed. I have emails from Tom asking SCW to restore this car and thanking me for my help to break that the car was a 9737 COPO....BKH

[PeteLeathersac]

Here's the thread when Tom found his old 3737 car and bought it back...
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...fpart/all/vc/1

There's a couple pics of the car at the beginning of this thread...
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...?Number=312711

A few pics of the car are still alive in this old Dupont page too...
http://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/...?itemid=498103


Below is Tom's pic of his 9737 car when new sitting outside the Kenny Ross dealership...





~ Pete

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I like real cars best...the REAL real ones!

[Chevy454]

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Did they ever have any luck with an NICB on this car?

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Didn't Tom buy the car new?

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I knew Tom bought it new off the lot @ Kenny Ross, but I was wondering if they were able to confirm the dealer trade theory or not...it would make sense that it worked like that, but the '69 COPO secret was leaked at some point as well, so there's always that possibility I suppose. Anyway, the NICB should show the original destination dealer...

[jerry67]

I would think a dealer trade would be very possible the dealerships were only a few miles apart and both raced vettes at cumberland airport

[Unreal]

I was at Pitt in the late 60's and remember the Pgh Press had ads all the time for engines and wheels. (maybe wheels and tires)

[Les Quam]

Multi Mopars,
Very good analysis you made when you compared the forty eight 1968 GSS 440/375 HP Darts that Mr. Norm was able to convince Dodge/Hurst to build exclusively for Mr. Norm with the 1968 COPO Yenko Camaro's built by GM exclusively for Don Yenko.

Not so many people are aware of those rare 1968 Mopars that Mr. Norm dreamed up to compete with the big block Camaro's built by GM and modified by Don Yenko and others in 1968.

Most people are only vaguely aware Dodge built 440 Darts in 1969 to compete with GM let alone the 1968 GSS 440 cars?

I too grew up in Chicago listening to Mr. Norms ads on WLS. The only other popular rock station I can remember at the time was WCFL. Never thought as I listened to those ads that I would pay equal to what a house costs today to own one of those cars?

[bashton]

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Multi Mopars,
Very good analysis you made when you compared the forty eight 1968 GSS 440/375 HP Darts that Mr. Norm was able to convince Dodge/Hurst to build exclusively for Mr. Norm with the 1968 COPO Yenko Camaro's built by GM exclusively for Don Yenko.

Not so many people are aware of those rare 1968 Mopars that Mr. Norm dreamed up to compete with the big block Camaro's built by GM and modified by Don Yenko and others in 1968.

Most people are only vaguely aware Dodge built 440 Darts in 1969 to compete with GM let alone the 1968 GSS 440 cars?

I too grew up in Chicago listening to Mr. Norms ads on WLS. The only other popular rock station I can remember at the time was WCFL. Never thought as I listened to those ads that I would pay equal to what a house costs today to own one of those cars?

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AND...you will be able to relive some of those memories at the MCACN show, as Dick Biondi will be reminiscing with Mr. Norm live, Saturday November 21st!

Bashton
MCACN Managing Member

[MultiMopars]

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Multi Mopars,
Very good analysis you made when you compared the forty eight 1968 GSS 440/375 HP Darts that Mr. Norm was able to convince Dodge/Hurst to build exclusively for Mr. Norm with the 1968 COPO Yenko Camaro's built by GM exclusively for Don Yenko.

Not so many people are aware of those rare 1968 Mopars that Mr. Norm dreamed up to compete with the big block Camaro's built by GM and modified by Don Yenko and others in 1968.

Most people are only vaguely aware Dodge built 440 Darts in 1969 to compete with GM let alone the 1968 GSS 440 cars?

I too grew up in Chicago listening to Mr. Norms ads on WLS. The only other popular rock station I can remember at the time was WCFL. Never thought as I listened to those ads that I would pay equal to what a house costs today to own one of those cars?

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Yeah, I wondered after I made the comparision how many people would actually understand what the comparision was really all about.

Actually, what Norm was asking for was not a car to compete with the Yenko 427 cars but rather for something to compete with the 396/375 Novas. The Ebodies weren't produced until 1970 so back in 68 they had no pony car or no small car/big engine combo to compete with the HP smaller cars.

Your right about the 48 cars as well. Supposedly the other two of the 50 were diverted to another dealer or two.

The GSS emblems (Grand Spalding Sport) were intalled at Mr. Norm's Grand Spalding Dodge and the simply replaces the "T" of the GTS with another factory "S"

As I recall WCFL was FM and came about after the reversal of AM becoming the talk radio that FM had been previously.

I go back a little further and can remember Dick Clark in 1957 on WLS before he was fired for telling a dirty joke on air. The career move that REALLY changed his life for the better.

[Mr70]

aaah...Super CFL.
http://www.radiotimeline.com/am1000wcfl.htm