Yenko paperwork for creating the COPO option?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Ditto that! I know we've kicked this around before, but I firmly believe that the Yenko deuce was a Boss302 knockoff - Don loved road racing, and if he could sell enough of the deuces as insurance beaters, drag cars, streat cars, whatever.... to get them qualified for SCCA, then he would have been happy. Don wanted to run with the big boys in '70, and the SCCA guys all had 'their' own car - Shelby, Gurney, Donahue, etc... the deuce would have been the Yenko of the SCCA muscle car class!

That pic that Howie found of the deuce with the stripes installed BOSS 302 style was the clincher

I think the turbo Z was another attempt at getting his name back into SCCA racing - albeit half heartedly, as Kim Mason appears to be the main driver behind that effort.

[firstgenaddict]

Jeff,
Doesn't Kevin S have a letter pertaining to the White 68 Yenko that he has? The one that has the 67 style Vin tag inside the door jamb that is stamped "Special Drag Car" or something to that effect.

Kevin S's 68 Yenko

[Jeff H]

Yeah, that might be the paperwork I was thinking of. Didn't it show the emission's certification that GM had to get to release it as an option package? I was also under the impression that Don's reasoning for asking for that engine option was to make swapping the 427 even easier since the carb was really set up for the 427 and not the 396. It's hard to remember what you're read in the past regarding these things Don was doing with GM.

[firstgenaddict]

Yes I believe that is the paperwork with the emissions test on it, it was the 375 horse 396 (with a different suffix code...MV or ??? dont' remember) that some claimed designated it as a 427. I read somewhere else that an original owner of an unconverted 68 car with the suffix code said that with out a doubt his engine was a 396 not a 427.

[COPO_Anders]

I replied in another thread mabye a year ago, because I had read in a magazine about the -68 Yenko´s being factory built with 427 engines. I got a private message from a member saying that he had one of the six unconverted Camaros with the original 396 in it. And it had the MV code on the block.

[enio45]

Anders, i can confirm that the one of the uncoverted camaros has the orig MV coded motor - 440 casting block. This is tom billigans car. My car the other unconverted car (2 of 6 know to exist) has the original POP showing my orig vin and MV code on the POP.

[COPO_Anders]

Ed, I believe someone told me at the Supercar reunion in 2004, that Yenko ordered 70 L-78 Camaros in 1968. 64 were converted to 427 power, and 6 were sold with their original 396 powerplants.
But now I remember reading an article written by Brian H. and Tom C. I believe. I think they said that 75 L-78 cars were probably ordered, and 65 of them were converted.
Is this as close to the truth as we can come today ?