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Old 11-27-2008, 09:15 AM
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CL car!!!

It could have been originally ordered as a 9C1 Police package car...very few coupes were produced..


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Don Yenko ran a Nova in IMSA’s Kelly American Challenge Series that started in 1977. He finished 4th that year.

Around 79-80 Yenko was working on a Chevy Citation race car project. Bill Grumpy Jenkins built the engines.

Maybe Bill B remembers that project?
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Don Yenko ran a Nova in IMSA’s Kelly American Challenge Series that started in 1977. He finished 4th that year.

Around 79-80 Yenko was working on a Chevy Citation race car project. Bill Grumpy Jenkins built the engines.

Maybe Bill B remembers that project?

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Here's the Kelly Challenge car:


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Another photo of the same car, I believe that's Dick Thompson on the driver's side... Don Yenko in the foreground.








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Don Yenko ran a Nova in IMSA’s Kelly American Challenge Series that started in 1977. He finished 4th that year.

Around 79-80 Yenko was working on a Chevy Citation race car project. Bill Grumpy Jenkins built the engines.

Maybe Bill B remembers that project?

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...and here is the Citation project, part of the "Champion Spark Plug Challenge"

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Here was Yenko's IMSA/Kelly Girl Challenge ride for '83...

https://www.yenko.net/features/2003/October2003.htm
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...and here is the Citation project, part of the "Champion Spark Plug Challenge"


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who would of thought a Citation could look this mean?
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who would of thought a Citation could look this mean?

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...or run this hard!


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