68 yenko

[sYc]

Who knows?

For many years it was thought that Gibb was the only one to get '68 COPO Novas, but Dale Berger told a group of us that they got one. I have no reason to doubt Dale, as the same thing happened with the ZL-1s, where it was thought that Gibb was the only one to get them, but records appeared later showing that Berger got the #3 car.


As I told TB when we had this discussion, as with all cars, we need to stick to the facts.

1. the car appears to be a legit '68 COPO 9737 Camaro, L-78
2. was sold new at Kenny Ross Chevrolet

So, IMO, as it stands now, the car is a Kenny Ross COPO Camaro, which is not a bad thing, as that makes it one of one.

[JoeC]

Tom B was trying to get the NICB report.

There are a few more items that led us to believe it is from Yenko but the NICB report is needed to prove it out.

Ed C has paperwork from GM that shows that the COPO 9737 option was first called the “Sports Car Conversion/Yenko/” in 1968, then in 1969 it was noted that COPO 9737 was made available to other dealers and not just “Yenko Sports Car Inc.” The Yenko name was used twice in the document.
It appears that COPO 9737 was only for Yenko in 68 but maybe some did slip out. I still have not heard of any other non-Yenko 1968 Camaros with the COPO 9737 option but still this is not proof that Tom’s was delivered to Yenko.

The Yenko ad shows 6 special SS396 Camaros and was late in the year. Five were Corvette Bronze. We thought having 5 of the same color cars for sale when the new model was coming soon, made a trade or discount sale to Ross seem possible but still this is not proof that Tom’s was delivered to Yenko.

Jim M from the F&SO dept. said he remembered working with Yenko on this 1968 COPO order with the special engine code. Jim thought the order was for 427 Camaros and that Yenko ordered over 70 of these. He posted this info on here or on TC - maybe that thread still around.

It is not correct to say that there were 70 1968 COPO 9737 ordered and 6 were sold as unconverted. Some of the 1968 427 Yenko Super Camaros were built from non- COPO 9737 Camaros (4 according to the list here) so the 70-6=64 is not correct.
The ad just says that 6 cars were for sale at the time of the ad.
I have not seen any info that shows how many SS396 COPO 9737 Camaros Yenko received or how many were sold as unconverted cars.

Some one still needs to get the NICB for Tom B's car.

[enio45]

Joe, any idea how or where the 70 number come from? Was it assumed that 64 were converted and the "6 cars" from the ad just gives an assumed 70?

[NovaMob03]

Several '69 Yenko's have been run on NICB with no results found, including 615076, which had bulletproof Yenko documentation. Even if someone were to run TB's COPO/Yenko it may come back inconclusive.