Gates Chevrolet

[John Brown]

The two Burris brothers, from Osceola, Indiana each bought blue Yenkos from Gates Chevrolet in Mishawaka Indiana. One Nova, one Chevelle. In 69 everyone raced what the drove, and these guys raced the p*ss out of their cars, street and strip. Gates (574-256-3000 if you are interested) was hot and heavy into performance at the time, having ZL-1 engines, shopping carts full of Muncies and full line of other GM performance parts in stock. The parts managers at the time were Bill Schugars and Donnie Radar. Schugars came back as parts manager a couple of years ago after years of running his own parts store. He's a gear head, and has lots of pics (several scrap books full) like Jenkins/Strickler when they were on tour for Chevrolet in 69. As for those two Yenko cars, there's no one I've yet found that has a clue where they went.