Fathers Lost Yenko Chevelle #358034 Butternut

[Mr70]

Cworkman2 (Christopher Workman in Michigan)
On July 7th of this year,someone posted this on the sYc facebook page.

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;Looking for 69 yenko Chevelle vin#136379b358034 belonged in my family in early 70s /want to know did it survive/and where is it today?
[email protected] or Jerry Strong Sebring Florida 863 443 7039&quot;</span>

How is this man related to you?

[Cworkman2]

Jerry Strong was a friend of my fathers and actually is the one who told be about the car being a Yenko. He actually was the person who pointed me to this group to inquire. Sorry about the lapse in communication, my job requires me to be out of cell service for days at a time due to the fact that I work remotely. I am currently in the process of scanning photos and other documents to post.

[njsteve]

Just an anecdote on Colorado law back in the day. In 1980 when I was going to diesel school in Denver I lived in a rented house in a suburb outside of Denver. We had some crabby neighbors who were always calling the police on us for no reason. Too many cars in the driveway...oil drips on the street, too many pretty ladies visiting the house, etc.

Anyway, the &quot;Crabbies&quot; eventually moved out and when they did they left their 1972 Chevy Vega parked in front of our house (*among other items left behind). It sat there for three months gathering parking tickets. No one ever came to get it. So I called the police and they said to go to the DMV and apply for an abandoned vehicle title and then do whatever I wanted with it. I did just that. All I had to show was the police report, reporting it as abandoned and they issued a title and registration for around $25. I eventually traded the car in to a used car dealer who had a connection to a wrecking yard. At the wrecking yard was a rusty 1971 383 Cuda convertible that had been abandoned at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver! I got the Cuda with a bill of sale, and applied for title and got it.

* as for the other items? One of which was a six-foot tall pot plant that the police noticed on the Crabby family's screened-in back porch. They promptly seized it and took it away in the trunk of their patrol car, smiling as they drove away.

[PeteLeathersac]

I Googled the VIN and saw that Facebook posting last night too but figured the OP here was the same person/family? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
Cool if it's a found and known existing car as Marlin noted also hope all works out Ok for everyone!
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~ Pete

[tom999q]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I Googled the VIN and saw that Facebook posting last night too but figured the OP here was the same person/family? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
Cool if it's a found and known existing car as Marlin noted also hope all works out Ok for everyone!
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete </div></div>

Sounds like a brewing family feud. Two not-to-friendly relatives knew about the car over the years but didn't care about it. Then on 7/7/14 someone told them it was a Yenko. Now they're both trying to beat each other to the car in the hopes of big financial gains.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[Cworkman2]

Actually I've been looking for this car since I've been 9...I'm 39 now. A little back story to clear things up. I am an only child and my father, Carl, the owner of the car, died when I was 6 months old. Due to my mothers health issues she and I were residing with my grandparents in Michigan while my father was stationed at Fort Carson. After his death there was some issue with getting the car back to Michigan, I have the correspondence between the Army and my mother which mentions the car but it is never listed with his effects. There are conflicting arguments on either side in the paperwork.
In my searching I thought it was just another chevelle produced at the time, it wasnt until Jerry Strong contacted me on Facebook and wished to tell me about stories about my father and the car did I find out it's unique origin. Which makes it easier to track. Thus, contacting this group to see if it is still out there. I dont have much in regards of knowing my father, and I could care less about financial gain, but I would like to know if the car is still out there, if it's in a collection and if the owner would be willing to talk to me. If the car has been destroyed, well I will have to accept that this search is over. My fathers mother and brother both passed before I got to know them..my mother was not one to associate with them after his death, so this is sort of a extremely personal journey. It's funny, but since finding out about this car and being contacted by his friends I have learned so much about him and his exploits. I was told that he changed the side emblems on the car to 350 ones so that it looked like a sleeper, but would blast any car down the strip at the time. Thats what I want to know about...I would just like to be able to touch a piece of his history outside of the stories.

[John]

.... Did this Yellow 1969 Yenko Chevelle .... have a &quot;Black vinyl top&quot; ? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[mssl72]

What happened to the popcorn eating smiley?? I need it now.

[tom999q]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mssl72</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What happened to the popcorn eating smiley?? I need it now. </div></div>


Hahaha, that's funny [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

[Cworkman2]

Please excuse the watermark on the photos, using an old scanner and software.

These are pictures of my mother and fath...identification