'69 Original Yenko Nova

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I recently spoke with Randy Miller about the so called "unconverted" '69 Novas, including his car, which may be the one pictured above. He has owned several Yenkos, including at least 2 '69 Novas. He disagrees with Vince's theory, that just because some of the cars sold for a couple of hundred dollars less, that they were unconverted cars. He feels that the price difference could have been caused by poor sales, which indeed did happened in late '69. He would like to see more proof before making a determination about the cars, but Vince has been unwilling or unable to come up with anything. At this point, Randy feels that his car is a 427 "converted" car. Tom

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Tom;
I agree with you and Randy about the 'unconverted' cars, it is hard to be sure what was done at Yenko Chev. towards the end of '69. I had spoken with Randy and Dante', (he bought Randy's Fathom Green '69 Yenko Nova), about this topic a few years ago at the Pure Stock Drag Race in Michigan. We had agreed that the only way to know for sure would be to speak with some original owners of the proposed 'unconverted' cars. It is hard to know which ones Vince believes are in this category. I believe the tri-power L78 car that RowdyRat researched is not on Vinces list of the 37. It is unclear if that car is one of the 'unconverted' ones, or if it was just another L78 that was dressed up with the tri-power - maybe a demo, return, warranty situation, ect... (something like the '67 YS-060??)

RowdyRat; Do we know what color the emblems are on that car? If it was one of the YENKO SportsCars Inc. products I would think it would have white YENKO emblems. If it was a YENKO Chev. product I would think it would have the black and chrome emblems.
M

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Tom;
Does Randy Miller have email? I would like to confirm his '69 Yenko VIN # to see if it is the same as the car in the photos above. Or if you have his VIN, let me know.
Thx,
M

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Here is Randy Miller's previous '69 Yenko Nova, it is now in Canada. I do not know the VIN number of this one either, so I don't know what dealership it was originally sold out of. Some people have suggested that this one may have been one of the 'unconverted' cars. If it sold new here in PA, I would like to do some research to find the original owner to determine the engine, stripes, emblem placement, options ect...
M

[SuperCars]

Just bringing this old topic up to respond to the questions Joe had above. The 69 Yenko Nova with auto trans was at the top of the list and had a Yenko stock number which had written above delete-didn't work. Vince showed me the the top half of the actual Nova list, so I saw it with my own two eyes. There was nothing written as to whether it was sold as a SYC Yenko with stripes. I wonder if the the words "delete didn't work", means it was put back into inventory as a regular 396 auto trans Nova. Anyway I did not ask Vince anything about the 396 SYC Nova issue. I believe that is a sensitive subject.

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