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Old 01-06-2010, 05:59 PM
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Where I grew up in southern Illinois a guy in town had a real Cobra, you could hear it coming from a mile away. So one day we're hanging out about at my friends house, right near a favorite back road for the twisty guys, and we hear the Cobra coming. All of the sudden we hear screeching, boom, then silence. We jump in our cars and drive down to the s-turn section of the round and there's dude walking down the road. We turn around and ask him if he's ok and "where's your car?". We had past the car about 300 yards before we got to him and didn't see it!. He had lost control and put it in the ditch. By ditch I mean a 10 foot deep dry creek bed that runs along the road. Don't know if this car was ever fixed, I went in the Army shortly after. I took 2 semi wreckers to lift the car out. This was around 1982.
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Old 01-06-2010, 08:11 PM
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#1: Silver Deuce from the St. Louis area was being drive home late one night when the driver put the right front wheel into the ditch. The car pogo-sticked end-over-end, and was considered wrecked. The owner/friends tracked the car down in a junk yard a bit later. The drivetrain was gone, but they got the wheels and the hood tach - they still have the items. Bummer.

#2: Another silver deuce was the demo car for Span Inc salesman James Spencer. He apparently had a stroke while driving (per DMM) and put it into a bridge abuttment. The car was totalled, Spencer lived, and received a gobi beige demo car - that one survived. The silver one sat out behind Yenko's shop for years, then disappeared. It is still titled to this day as owned by Yenko Leasing Co.

Then there's a story of a '69 Yenko Camaro that centerpunched a tree/pole so hard that the firewall buckled.... but that's for someone else to tell!
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Old 01-06-2010, 09:51 PM
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1969 Yenko Camaro in my area sitting in a barn for years, low miles and all original but has roof damage/cracked windshield from the old barn falling in on it.. Offer was made many years ago to purchase however no luck.. Recently fattened up the offer, hope to know something soon..
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Old 01-06-2010, 11:53 PM
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It was 1978. A guy my age in town (AH) hit a Dear with a 70 GS Stage 1. All it needed was front sheetmetal. Silver/Black/Black,Buckets,Console,Gauges,4 speed with A/C nice Buick wheels and all.50k on the odo. Owner decided not to repair.I purchased the engine Ram air to pan,And like a dumb ass not the rest of the car. The remainder went to the junk yard.
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Old 01-07-2010, 12:07 AM
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not a supercar supercar but in the summer of 71 there was a 69 L78 Pacecar that got caught between a retaining wall and a Semitrailer in N Illinois that still sits behind a barn in N Illinois today. driver survived and the car was hauled and parked.
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Old 01-07-2010, 12:55 AM
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Jeff,


WHat about the Ribbon car?


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Old 01-07-2010, 01:14 AM
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Lots of them in fires. 2 in the last 10 years that come to my mind is an alum motor car that had a building burn around it. Then there was a Super Cobra Jet Mustang in a house fire.
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WHat about the Ribbon car?


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CUBED... RIGHT? such ashame!
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