1969 Yenko Nova

[69LM1]

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plain jane '69 L78 Nova?

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I'll take one please!

Could'nt resist!

Rich

[William Dyer]

Ok, I looked up my notes from when I talked to Vince Emme on the phone in 1992.

My notes from the conversation goes that the car was sold in June of 1969 within a couple weeks of delivery to Yenko Chevrolet.

Now, the car was a 04B Build on the trim tag, so I don't know when it would have been delivered to Yenko.

Doesn't look like the car sat for a long time before being moved through SYC.

William Dyer

[A468BU]

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Ok, I looked up my notes from when I talked to Vince Emme on the phone in 1992.

My notes from the conversation goes that the car was sold in June of 1969 within a couple weeks of delivery to Yenko Chevrolet.

Now, the car was a 04B Build on the trim tag, so I don't know when it would have been delivered to Yenko.

Doesn't look like the car sat for a long time before being moved through SYC.

William Dyer

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I don't know what you are saying. The car was bought in May and it never went to SYC. It was sold through Yenko Chevrolet. There was no paper work from SYC what so ever.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The June date is probably the 'titled date', which usually lags behind the actual sale date. The titled date is what is listed on the VIN search results from the PA DOT.

You are correct, there is no sYc paperwork, I was mistaken in my early posts bec/ I was thinking of another car that does have the sYc letterhead. After researching several more SuperCars sold out of Yenko, they all have Yenko Chev. paperwork.

[Keith Tedford]

By the summer of '69, these cars weren't moving off the lots very fast. I had plenty of time to choose between the Nurse Camaro and the Beare Chevelle. Typically insurance was around $400 for a Chevelle like ours. I think it was more a matter of most people not being able to afford the cars in the first place. You weren't buying $4K cars unless you were fortunate enough to have a GM job or something comparable. By late summer, I imagine Yenko would move these cars any way possible. They probably didn't care what engine the cars left with just as long as they were gone. By August, the dealers would know that bigger and better was coming out in the fall. GM was talking 454 Corvettes, Camaros, and Chevelles. Who would want a 425 hp '69 Chevelle or Camaro when they could have a 450 hp 454 shortly. I know that it irritated me a little when I found out what was coming down the pipe line. Not now.

[67rsss350]

My Dad and Uncle both remember this car, my Uncle even road in it back then. He thought David Dorsey owned it, my Dad and Uncle both said it was definitly was a 396/375 not a 427 Yenko (they said it ran GOOD). There were some hot cars in the Southhills of Pittsburgh back then. My Dad's first new car was a 65 Impala with a 396/425 motor (pretty rare) and it was not an SS, his friend Harry had a 65 Z16 Chevelle he bought new.

[A468BU]

Harry Cook?

[vfitom]

Prior statement in an above message: "The only reason I can think of is that they did convert it to a 427 or 454 (depending on the delivery date), and then sell it less stripes and badges so their employee can get it insured and race it in the 396 class without anyone at the track knowing it was touched. Make the paperwork out saying it's a 396 for his insurance company and financing."

As to the above, is there any proof/surviving cars of this theory? I think this idea is far fetched as far as this 69 Nova is concerned. You have the original owner and now his friends saying it was a 396. Why can't that just be accepted?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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Prior statement in an above message: "The only reason I can think of is that they did convert it to a 427 or 454 (depending on the delivery date), and then sell it less stripes and badges so their employee can get it insured and race it in the 396 class without anyone at the track knowing it was touched. Make the paperwork out saying it's a 396 for his insurance company and financing."

As to the above, is there any proof/surviving cars of this theory? I think this idea is far fetched as far as this 69 Nova is concerned. You have the original owner and now his friends saying it was a 396. Why can't that just be accepted?

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I believe it is accepted that the car was indeed a 396. This is quite a shock, and it will take a bit of time for everyone to get on the same page. These cars made it onto this 'list' for some reason, we just don't know how/why!

Do any of you guys out there in P-burgh know a Tom Farr or Joseph Bongirono?

[moparts]

I don't think this is the 1st case of this happening with a car. (being sold without being modified) How many Yenko Stingers went out that way? From what info we can find there were a 100 more or less corvairs sitting on Don's lot and he would sell them how ever you wanted them. So what would make anyone think that the nova's would be any different? The main difference is you got a tag with the Stinger.

Would it have made things better or worse if Don had kept putting tags on all his SPECIAL cars?