E-Bay '69 Yenko Disguised As a Z-28 Clone!

[talwell]

Interesting discussion indeed. This will follow the ongoing dispute as that what is a rebody and what is original. At what point does a car lose its original identity? What key components does it take to still retain this identity and what reasonable exceptions can be made to allow the car to retain its original personality.

I think each car needs to be looked at based on its own merits. For example, with this car if you have the whole history on the car and one of the previous owners will provide a statement that the car was wrecked and the firewall was replaced in my opinion I would still consider this a genuine car. If it was found to be that the vin was just transferred over to a completely different complete body than I would say it has lost its identity.

This is like ZL1 #61 - didnt that car have a completely replaced cowl, firewall and lower firewall without matching hidden vins but still wears the original vin? Isn't there a credible and documented history to back this and therefore the car can still be considered genuine?

Lets all let history tell the story and set the stage for this one. With only 200 original Yenko cars - even the mere fragment of one deserves to have every avenue explored and be given the utmost possible consideration to be reconstructed.

[hep1966]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: talwell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

This is like ZL1 #61 - didnt that car have a completely replaced cowl, firewall and lower firewall without matching hidden vins but still wears the original vin? Isn't there a credible and documented history to back this and therefore the car can still be considered genuine?

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Agreed. I also fully believe that if someone else (read as a more frequent poster) bought the car, then they would be encouraged and not bashed.

[Enoch]

If I had the car I would strip it down to a bare shell and have a true expert in body restorastion come and evaluate it. There is a huge difference in #'s experts and body experts. This way you can fully document what was done to fix the firewall. It will be easy to tell where they seamed the firewall in.