Yenko Camaros (1969) - Two! - Lemont, Il. 1969

[Quick85]

Pete, thanks for the input, too bad I don't have a vin.
What are the odds that two identical (to the eye) yellow
Yenko Camaros would be bought from the same dealer and end
up in the same small town, and then be involved in the same
accident? I'm not making this up!

I'd like to post the owners names just in case, but think it best not to. On top of all this, we had a red
small block Yenko Nova ten miles away in Bolingbrook, Il.
I got the exhaust manifolds off of it for my own Nova in
'72.

[William]

A friend owns a Daytona Yellow/black vinyl 69 Yenko Camaro that was sold by Jack Douglass. It is a Canonsburg car, purchased in Iowa in the late '80s. Unusually optioned for a Yenko.

Sound familiar?

[Schonyenko2]

Do you remember the deuce owners name. Greg Schram maybe?

[FASTONE]

Rich Maksym, owner of Coast to Coast has a documented DY Jack Douglass

[Quick85]

William, not familiar at all. I lost touch with both guys
in the early '70's.

As far as the Nova goes. I don't remember the guy's name. It
was a friend of a friend deal. He had headers on the car and
I needed stock manifolds. If Greg is in the area of, say,
57-60, it could very well be him. I just remember being slightly jealous at the time that this kid had this new
Yenko and I'm driving a '68 SS.

[LITTLE TOMMIE]

here's a link to a J D yellow yenko
http://www.coast2camaro.com/index.php?n=car&car=54

[Quick85]

Intersting story Tommy, but who the devil was the original
owner? And who wrote the article? Do I assume that it was
someone affiliated with Coast to Coast Camaro? This is
getting to be fun, but I don't want to call there and make a
monkey of myself if they know nothing about it, but I just
may have to.

Now the plot thickens. I just took a small break from this
post to check my local phonebook. One of the two fellows
I was thinking about was listed so I gave him a call. I
hadn't talked to him in 38 years! Anyway, he said no, he
didn't buy one, he bought a '70 Chevelle SS instead. He
confirmed that the other fellow did, indeed, have one. As
for the second car, I'm now at a loss. Well, maybe someone
out there will read this and say "Hey Mitch, that was me!"

[jeff morocco]

if im not mistaken, the original owner of the coast to coast camaro's name is tim perry. my dad bought his jd chevelle the same day tim bought his camaro.

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