Original Selling Dealer

[JoeC]

Did Jack Douglas say how many COPO cars he sold? If he purchased 25 to 28 sets of stripes and said he didn't put Yenko stripes on all his COPO's, it sounds like he had a lot of COPOs. From what I read, Yenko was the 1969 L72 COPO leader with 297, Berger had 50 COPO Camaros and about 10 COPO Chevelles. Emmert and Douglas had 20 each according to ED's site but ED may not have a complete list. Does anyone know what dealer was third in number of L72 COPO units sold? I guess it would be possible for a dealer to stripe a COPO and sell it as a Yenko car just as it was possible that Yenko sold a striped non-COPO car. There is that discrepancy of 16 cars between the photo of Don showing 350 units sold vs the 334 vin numbers that have turned up. On the other hand, the 350th sign may have been a rounded number just for publicty. I'm sure Don would have a good laugh if he knew there would be a few Yenko nuts that would try to figure out his business 30 years after the fact.

[James Berry]

Ok, what a can of worms. If a Car is a Yenko wouldn't it have a sequence number and paperwork from Yenko Chevrolet?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Yes,

[sixtiesmuscle]

You say YES, Marlin, I say YES, But. The Douglas deal is a strange situation. Jack Douglas says he has NO paperwork, OF ANY KIND from back then, so, no contract would exist. I guess neither one thought we would be interested in who sold what, with what stripes. The $400 figure times 25 cars, if you use the concept that money would double every 10 years, would amount to a current day value of about $80,000.00 That might even get you a good Yenko Camaro today. Probably not a YANKO, or a Yank-Me, but a pretty decent driver.

[Belair62]

James,all you would have to do is call Gary Dyer in Summit Illinois.If he has time to chat I'm sure he would remember that one..I know Mr-Gasser has his number. He's had a blower car or 2.Look him up in the members directory unless he see's this and posts the number. As for the Jack Douglass issue,it seems to me that it would have been a good and wise decision on Mr.Yenko's part to let Douglass create a Yenko striped COPO since it would be great for his own organization. He gets the stripe money AND the advertising!!!Not sure how these cars would be classified though.How about a "Jack-no" or a "Yenk-lass" beats Yanko anyhow !...darn who started that burnout thing ?

[Edited by Belair62 (02-07-2001 at 04:42 PM).]

[Edited by Belair62 (02-07-2001 at 04:44 PM).]

[James Berry]

Joe C thanks for the information. I did get a hold of Gary Dyer, he was a former owner of my Yenko. Thanks everyone.
Does anyone have Jack Douglass' phone number. I would like to give him a call and see if he remembers anything about my car. If you guys have anymore information, please let me know. Thanks for all the e-mails, I'm running down the leads. A Yenko is only a Yenko if it was striped in Cannonsburg originally.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Not so fast there James!!
It is almost definite that the second order of 50 Yenko Novas in 1970 were striped by Hurst Performance in Detroit, MI!! They were however, on the New Car Inventory Sheets, with stock numbers, destination dealer, ect... I would consider these real Yenkos, even if the stripes may not have been applied in Canonsburg.
Marlin