Vintage pics, 1969 Yenko Nova

[John]

Welcome to the site....got any old photos?

[copo69]

Welcome to the site. Was I right about the year? I remember coming home and debating about buying the Nova and then deciding I really wanted a Camaro. I got the Camaro a few months later...in Ohio.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Welcome to the site!

Do we know what dealer sold this car originally? It could have been sold from Yenko, or a number of OH dealers. I recall Donna Mae telling me about an engine that was stolen from a '69 Nova. She said that they had hired a dog to patrol the lot where the cars were stored. There were paw prints on the tops of the fenders and roof of the car with the stolen engine, apparently the dog was nothing more than a curious bystander. A few weeks later, the dog was stolen.

[Mr70]

Welcome to the site.

[x Baldwin Motion]

Welcome to the site.


A few weeks later, the dog was stolen.

[PeteLeathersac]

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...I heard He moved Canada...

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Yep...and w/ a couple of his pals formed the Canadian rock group 3-Dog Night!.


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~ Pete

[micky69396]

Dick Bridges bought the car from Carl Dwiggins in probably 1993-94 or around there. I restored the car again in probably 1995 and it sold to Reggie a few years after that. It then went to a MO collector who sold it with a bunch of other Yenko cars in the last year or so. Great pics, wish we would have had them back then.

[Kim_Howie]

Maybe the dog didn't like his job!! I heard He moved Canada.

[69yenko427sc#1]

Hello Marlin,

The original 396/375 was stolen at White Chevrolet. Don
purchased the Car as a strip out and then installed the 427
creating his first 427 69 Nova. When I found the car in the fall of 1983
it was missing the motor. I purchased a 427
short block with 12.5 to 1.00 pistons, steel crank. I installed a set of 69
dated square ports, OE solid cam along
with a winters cast GM intake. I made several adjustments
to the suspension before all that power connected and launched properly.
I've owned several Big Block cars, from
Chevelles to Camaro's even Corvettes but nothing compares
to that Little old Green 69 Nova.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Wow!! That is very cool history of the car. White Chevrolet was a large volume dealer in Yenko's network. Sounds like a later conversion or the prototype.