Fathers Lost Yenko Chevelle #358034 Butternut

[69hurstSC]

Glad you have the documentation between the Army and your mom. Stolen property is stolen property, whether it's a Picaso a Yenko Chevelle or a baseball glove. Someone took it upon themselves to take advantage of your mom who was no longer located in CO with your father. I feel bad for anyone who may have owned or purchased the car w/o knowing it's history, but the car was never rightfully theirs.

[tom999q]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Glad you have the documentation between the Army and your mom. Stolen property is stolen property, whether it's a Picaso a Yenko Chevelle or a baseball glove. Someone took it upon themselves to take advantage of your mom who was no longer located in CO with your father. I feel bad for anyone who may have owned or purchased the car w/o knowing it's history, but the car was never rightfully theirs. </div></div>

I disagree. Anyone and everyone has a right to have legal guardianship/ executorship of someone elses estate when done legally, and no one else protests it. That's how estate attorneys get control of estates all the time: they legally gain control of a dying persons estate and can do whatever they want with it, as long as there are no other people who contest it... Just because your mother is still alive, doesn't mean that she has legal control over your fathers estate or his possessions. If your uncle or grandmother became the executor of your father's estate then they can legally sell the car to whomever they want, whether your mother likes it or not, and also without her knowledge of the sale...

[GMC_Typhoon]

Why on Earth would somebody rattle can a perfectly good car AND remove anything that would identify it as unique? (like Yenko emblems)

Hmmm. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[tom999q]

Back then Yenko's weren't worth much. You should see what someone did to my Yenko when it was only three years old!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Wow, just read this thread end to end.

Exciting stuff.

Ryan

[Cworkman2]

There was no executor of my fathers estate, he was 20 years and 20 days old at the time of his death, married, and had a child (me). Because he was on authorized leave from the Army at the time of his death, it was the responsibility of the secretary of the court to forward any and all of my fathers belongings back to his next of kin. I have the documentation where they basically ignored her requests for information and assistance in getting the majority of his belongings. They did send her 14 pairs of socks and a comb though.

[tom999q]

Oh wow, well that throws a monkey wrench into the scenario, ONLY if the car was on the base at the time of his death. (I know, I was in the Army until 2009). If it was, then all his possessions on the base would go to his next of kin. If it was off base at the time of his death, then the executor (whomever that is) would have the legal right to take possession and dispose of it...

The grave site and burial were PARTIALLY at the expense of the Army (unless his family chose otherwise). There were, however, peripheral expenses associated with the funeral/ burial that someone in the family had to pay for (usually the executor directly from the money in the estate of the deceased). If I were you, I'd find out who paid the remaining burial expenses, as that is usually the person who has the legal power to do so....

There's also the possibility that no executor was chosen, and the car sat in the lot at the base for years (I've seen this a lot to abandoned cars on the bases I've been to, mainly because a soldier pcs'd to another base and left their car behind) until someone just took it... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[Cworkman2]

My fathers last address while serving at Fr.Carson was
2113 Frontier Dr.
Security, Colorado 80111
You can see for yourself where it is now, I rough photoshopped the car into his house as it sits now, and back in 75. I have come to find out my dad was the third owner of this car, and the &quot;whiskey&quot; in the last picture is his cat...not what you think it is. haha.
I'm not sure if the location is considered &quot;on base&quot;.
Chris

[SuperNovaSS]

Chris,


Cool pictures and interesting story.

On 7/25, you wrote:

&quot;Whatever happened to the car I know it never made it back to Michigan, I went to the Secretary of State in Michigan last Monday and asked if I could do a title search. Because of the short VIN they were weary of running it, but after I showed them my information they did what they could and said it was not in a listing of Michigan cars. So thats why I am here, I just want to find it. To know its out there. I started looking at pictures of this car when I was 9. If someone has it I want them to know the story of the car. Somewhere in 1976 it got lost in the fray. I know many of you have questions, and I will answer all that I can, I just am happy that many of you have responded. I just everyone to know I'm not out here trying to make a buck or scam anyone out of a car. I just want to know if it's rolling on rubber or a heap in a scrap yard.&quot;


Now that you found some info on the car it sounds like you may want to get it back. What has changed?

Jason

[Cworkman2]

I'm still debating on what to do, when I first started on this journey of looking for the car it was more of just knowing it existed. I had been under the impression that the car had more than likely been sold by some family member years ago and that I would find someones signature or someone would come forward and admit to it. C'mon it's been almost 40 years..it's not like I could hold a grudge. But the reality of it all is that there has been no definitive answer about how it ended up where it is now. So it leads me to believe that somewhere down the line there is a shadow over it,and what makes things even more askewed is that my attempts to contact the person who may possess the car wont even speak with me. I'm not demanding anything, asking for anything other than a few min to get some details straight. I know to all of you guys this is a Yenko, to me, it's my dads car. To my fathers friends, it was Carls' car. I know most of you on here are restorers and hard core enthusiast, I understand that, and I have no problem with you questioning my motives. I will tell you this, I'm not out trying to make a buck...I'm not out to get a car that I'm going to flip on some auction site, this is not about that. If you read any of these posts, you know I never knew my father, he passed when I was 6 months old...and many of you may say &quot;boo hoo&quot;, and I'm not gonna get into semantic over it, but for me..this is a piece of my father. These pictures I post, they aren't select ones pulled from volumes...they are the ones all of the family has, no birthday parties, no football photos, no fun at camp.......each one has that car in it. My mom told me that the bulk of their relationship revolved around her sitting in the passenger seat and talking to him thru the floorboards cause he was constantly adjusting the clutch. So you tell me, am I greedy or something for wanting a piece of that. I would be content to find a hump of junk in a field in Colorado if i knew it was his car, but its not...its a Yenko. The sad part is I would of never had a chance to find it if it wasn't, I started looking for this car when I was 9. I called the Oxford, Mi police department and wanted to report it stolen. I didn't even know the Vin then...I just knew it was a yellow chevelle. So I imagine someone is asking what I would do if it came back to my family...you want to know what i would do... drive it. Yep...go up to Manton, Mi and pick up my fathers cousin Andy and my fathers friend Charlie. I would take them out for a ride... I would do the same for my mother and my aunt Rene... I would take it to his grave in Oxford and let him see it again. That is what I would do. But right now I'm making no accusations or claims, I'm not pointing fingers and naming names. I just want to get the right, correct and truthful story I can. I am willing to talk or mail anyone about what I'm saying either call me or PM me...I'm very open and offer only respect and gratitude to all of the people who have helped me on here.
Thank you again
Chris