Never give up searching !

[55chevy]

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Wow, I'm amazed at all the interest to my find and humbled by all the nice comments. Of all you people reading this I would love to hear from a Youngstown, Ohio or Mercer, Pa enthusiast who has any memory of this car from its early days. Heres a strange clue: Chrome plated front sway bar. Very odd as no other unusual plating done. Supposedly drag raced in the area early seventies. Ask around, this is what makes it fun. Thanks Again, car people are the best.

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George Awesome.. Hope you can bring that to SCR8 so we can all drool over it up close

[COPO PETE]

Wowzers!!!!! Congrats on your great find. To find something like that, in that colour is just out of this world. Congrats again!!!!!
Peter

[BUIZILLA]

This has got to be the supercar score of the year..

congrat's !

Jim

[MotownMadman]

George,
You consider buying any lottery tickets recently? Play the six digit VIN any way you can. I have a friend in SE Michigan who remembers racing a orange 69 Yenko Chevelle against his HEMI DART (which he still has)at Milan Michigan dragway in the early to mid seventies. Says he will box hunt for a possible photo. Anyone know how many Orange 69 Y Chevelles that were within a 500 mile radius of Milan back then? For the Mopar or dart guys, you may know Knorbert K. What a great find, no doubt a lot of hours of research and dedication. Nice to see those who throw more at the hobby then money. How many years knowing of it before finding it? Dont touch the originality any more then you have to. This is the kind of car that you have no need of defending or arguing it's heritige or history, no concerns about questionable documentation with this one, the car screams original! Very few found anymore in what I call "Time Capsule" condition. Did the previous owner tell you how many people have tried to buy it over the years? I cant imagine anyone even knowing of it or laying eyes on it in the last quarter century without that knowledge leaking out to the point of someone already bringing back into the daylight! Then again, this is one of those cars that if it were seen and described to anyone else as even existing, it becomes a "Ya right, sure you saw it, uh-huh". I can tell you, that happens a lot. People may have seen this car over the years and never even bothered with telling anyone about it as they were tired of the skeptics of the world believing it not possible for a find like this to be out there, let alone discovered. Congrats!
Motown

[GeorgeLyons]

Well Motown, you certainly have my interest. Milan would have been a likely drag strip for this car to have run. As for Orange Yenkos, it looks like Minneman in Youngstown actually sold 2 twin cars and no others in the area show up but remember, we are only talking about 100 or so miles from Canonsburg so anything is possible. As to your questions about the cars hibernation, in extensive conversation with the 26 year owner it seems the car was just never out anywhere, he was out of the hobby, lived off the beaten path and never tried to do anthing with the car for over two decades. As I said previously, a buddy of his goes to GM Carlisle and supposedly tried asking around but it seems I am the only one that smelled blood when I heard the cars description and "just north of Pittsburgh" mathched up to this long ago dead-end lead I had. Once I found the guy by phone and he learned why I was calling, he gave me the cars VIN in about the first minute of our conversation. One of the nicest, honest, genuine gentleman I ever dealt with. In the first ten minute phone call I established 1. VIN was a hit. 2. Cars description matched registry. 3. "of course you can see it, come down anytime" 4. "Ya, I'd probably sell it" From there it sorta went like this: Did you ever see the Sienfeld where Jerry calls Kramer to see if he wants in on the Chinese food order and he doesn't even have the phone hung up and Kramer is sliding in the door ? I think I was at this guys house about that fast. From there it was easy, looked over the car, established a relationship, and worked thru a very friendly price negotiation. Total elapsed time from first phone call to title tranfer.....3 weeks. Total nights of sleep over those 3 weeks-none. It was great......where's the next cold case to chase?

[chads454Ls6]

This story is just unreal! It is amazing that a guy owns a car like that and you were able to buy the car that fast. usually people have the car tied to there youth and they will never sell! Congrats again george.

[Mr70]

George
Can You share some more detailed pictures with us?
Possibly Engine-Interior-Trunk-Undercarriage
At your convenience...

[Belair62]

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Total nights of sleep over those 3 weeks-none.

[/ QUOTE ] Total words spoken to anyone else about the car ZERO !!

[GeorgeLyons]

Pretty close, needed some therapy to get me thru the 21 days so I confided in my one buddy (coincidently the guy I bought my first Yenko from) in Kentucky who I knew would help me thru and he did. If I didn't get the car bought, I was thinking of giving out the location on this site and just sit back in that little town and watch the traffic jamb. The poor guy would have needed police protection.

[Belair62]