69 Nova Big Blocks

[sYc]

Ron; You have asked a very interesting question. Up and through the reunion, the concensus was that the car was a very expensive (over $4800.00) Yenko sold, special paint, 396/375 Nova. But, a couple of weeks later, I was visiting with a former employee of Yenko about my Nova, when the subject of Brian's car came up. This person did not know that it had sold or that I knew the car. Much to my surprise. I was told that it was a 427 car. Following this conversation, I contacted Brian to see what, if any additional information he could add. Brian was more surprised then I was. With this new found information, we preceeded to try and document this. A return call was made. Brian's car was delivered as a 396/375 horse car, with special paint and numerous other options, trim, buckets, m-21 and 4:10. Sometime in late 1970, one of Don's employees (and race team mechanic) built and installed an aluminum headed, L-88 427 in the car. The only thing left to figure out is this. The car's list price was $4800.00, very high for a 1969 Nova. With the original paperwork is a credit for $500.25., about the price as was charged for a 396 to 427 engine swap. We are wondering if the car was ordered with the special paint, trim, buckets and a 427. Then for some reason, (money, wanting the car right then, ? ) when the car arrived at Yenko, the owner did not have the conversion done.