Re: 1966 Yenko Stinger for sale
Stefano and Shor, restore your cars the way they came from the dealer, with the stripes and badges. In 1969 they were sold as Yenkos, today they should be recognized the same way. To me there is no difference in a Douglass Yenko and one from PA as they were authorized to add the emblems and stripes at both locations. Lets not forget they originated from the same source, Chevrolet, not Yenko. We cannot argue whether the business dealings between two men over 30 years ago were right or wrong when one of them is no longer alive. Would they even care about what happened then anyways? Don't think so.
If there is an advantage between the Douglass Yenkos and the Cannonsburg Yenkos it would have to go to the Douglass cars. More options and better color selection. I too would love to see a Garnet Red/Black stripe Yenko Camaro or even a Dusk Blue/white stripe car. When it comes to values of vehicles, let the market decide that. Who here would have given over $100k for a restored Yenko 5 years ago? Not many on this board, but most of us would love to find one under that price now. Same goes for Motion modified cars. I passed on one 10 years ago because of that, it was a modified car. Now I wish I had bought it as it being a "modified" car does not seem to bother anyone now.
The Bill Thomas/Nickey cars were brought up in an earlier reply and those cars will eventually fall into the same category as the Douglass cars. They were built in both locations but were sold as Nickey 427 Camaros, but not all of them. Some were never even delivered to Nickey nor were they invoiced to them. Does this make them any less desirable or valuable than ones sold out of Nickey Chevrolet? I think not and I bet some others will agree.
To paraphrase words of the immortal Gump :"that is all I got to say about that"................... [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] .................everyone have a good night...........RatPack.....................
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