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

[AutoInsane]

"Yenko in the Envelope" post for interested followers :

....This is very true, and literally happened right here in PA just a few short years ago. A guy now has a nice looking Yenko Camaro, (albeit a rebody), with a repop TT, a restamped firewall, and no VIN plate because the guy with the original body trumped!

Bergy, I'm not trying to try your patience, nor do I consider you a rookie in this hobby - you've been around a while! But, the way you packaged your purchase and plans brings de ja vu to many of us. The recollection that the firewall in the car is from another car wrecked by a logging truck is interesting, but does nothing to prove/disprove this car as a rebody. <span style="font-weight: bold">When someone is offered a Yenko in an envelope,</span> and then it shows up a few years later as a full blown car - without the TT and the firewall stampings, it screams rebody (and a lousy one at that!).

If you think there is a story in that car, break it down, blast the body, look for the rebody vs. original body and go from there. I would love to be wrong on this one, even it is a definite rebody - I'd still save the thing, just need to call it like it is. [/quote]

[bergy]

I've had our corporate attorneys look at this pretty closely. Legal decision involving these matters are made on the preponderance of the evidence. Think of it this way, if a vin stamp(s) was cut out of the cowl of a car and welded into another car, would the other car then become the legit car? Or would the original car with the two holes on the cowl and the vin tag be the legit car? I'm not saying that this is exactly what happened in the case at hand, but I'm just illustrating that the preponderance of the evidence and not just the physical vin stamp in the cowl is used to determine legitimacy. With the value of these cars, fake cowl stamps will get better and better until even the experts are fooled.

[Justbad Joe]

There's a silver deuce with the rewelded scenerio (rebody at BJ), and I believe a hugger orange yenko dragcar camaro with tt and vin removed still leaving hidden vin under the fender with the other scenerio, (oops dragcar found,rebody out there), ask those people involved their opinions.
I may have missed it in 18 pgs., but what does the trim tag on the car say?
Can you change a cowl(firewall) without changing the tt or vin tag?
Joe
Trying not to be an a$$.
Howie don't respond!!

[vfitom]

Thanks. I'm done here......good luck........