Where is 69 Yenko Camaro 124379N663539

[GM_427_Racer]

I realize this thread started out as looking for my original 1969 Yenko, VIN 124379N663539, and I assume no one has found it or I would hope they would have updated this thread with its whereabouts. With that being said and since my 2017 racing season has ended as of October, and I have some time on my hands I thought I would do an update on the 1970 Baldwin Motion Camaro clone that I race as a B/SA, in NHRA Stock Eliminator. As you can see in the pictures, the car leaves the starting line very well, with a best of a 1.28 sixty foot time, which is really excellent for an almost 3600 lb all steel car on 9 inch slicks with a 402 cid engine rated at 375 HP (NHRA rated at 400 HP).

I would like to give credit where credit is due, Davey Summa, of Summa Performance in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania did the roll cage and chassis work and deserves to be acknowledged for his fine effort. If you would like to see what it feels like to go for a ride in this car, I have uploaded a video on You Tube, go in the search bar once you get on You Tube and type in; "2017 Maple Grove Raceway", look for a file that is 2 and a half minutes, it starts out doing the burnout and takes you all the way to the scales after the run is completed. Make sure you make it "Full Screen" in the lower right hand corner and watch for the WIN light on the wall, just past the finish line. Hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Here are a few still pictures.

[mockingbird812]

Nice launch - good looking Camaro!!

[Xplantdad]

Hi Gary, Here's the YouTube video!

[GM_427_Racer]

Hey Bruce,

Thanks for posting the You Tube video, sure makes it a lot easier.

Gary

[Xplantdad]

You are welcome, Gary!

[mssl72]

That was a fun quick ride! Thanks!

[GM_427_Racer]

Well, I haven't done a Yenko story in a while, this episode was in the fall of 1969 and I was back at work at the GM Assembly plant.

I ran into one of my cousins (also a motorhead) at work and we started talking about the previous weekend activities. I should mention that he was enrolled at General Motors Institute (I believe it is called Kettering now) in Flint, Michigan. He would work for a semester at the GM assembly plant and then go to GMI for a semester of studies. My cousin was telling me about one of his buddies (who was also at GMI) that was coming back from Flint on the Ohio Turnpike and how his friend had been driving along and came up on the back of this Camaro and as it turned out it was a Yenko Camaro. My cousin said his friend (who was driving an Opel) was riding on this Camaro's bumper for a while only a couple feet away trying to get a closer look at the car and the guy in the Yenko took off and ran away, obviously, the Opel could not keep up. He was telling me the guy in the Yenko slowed back to the speed limit and the little Opel caught up to him again and did the same maneuver of riding on the Yenko's bumper. My cousin said that his buddy figured the guy in the Yenko must have gotten a little upset, cause this time, he could see the Yenko driver, downshift to third gear and put it to the floor and not too long thereafter, the Yenko driver shifted to high gear and the Yenko disappeared into the horizon and his buddy never saw it again. My cousin told me his buddy who was an amateur road racer never saw a car disappear so fast and his buddy wanted him to tell me the story since my cousin had told him about my Yenko and that I would appreciate the story. We were both laughing and I asked my cousin if his buddy told him what color the Yenko was, he said that it was LeMans blue, so I asked my cousin what color my car was, he said it was LeMans blue. He looked at me and said "Are you kidding me, that was you?" I said YUP, that was me. Small World!!!! I met his buddy not too long after that and we also had a Good Laugh.....