Anyone else following the 1969 Nova maybe a Yenko thread on FB?

69hurstSC · #1 10-24-2022, 10:36 PM

Yes. The car is 100% an SYC. The current owner was getting married the week he put the car up on Facebook and hadn't had a chance to dig into it. This confirms it had stripes and in my opinion, puts to rest any claims that it's not the car in the photo.

**Stefano** · #2 10-26-2022, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by 69hurstSC

Yes. The car is 100% an SYC. The current owner was getting married the week he put the car up on Facebook and hadn't had a chance to dig into it. This confirms it had stripes and in my opinion, puts to rest any claims that it's not the car in the photo.

I'm not saying that it is not the car in the picture @ Brearger Chevrolet, but what makes you 100% sure of it, so I can follow. Obviously since you have been chasing the car and talking to the original owner family, you have more info than what is posted here.

Such a Kool find!

69hurstSC · #3 10-31-2022, 02:59 PM

Fair question, Stefano. It's one I've been working on ironing down the hard data on. So far my research is pointing towards a Funny Car meet at Great Lakes Dragway. The Viking Camaro was out of Illinois and these cars would be staged at local dealerships to drum up business. The best educated guess is the Camaro was either dealer traded or lent to Braeger for marketing purposes. I've got a note in with the curator of the Dale Chev documents owner. If the car was traded to Braeger it should be in the paperwork. The last we spoke he had 30 boxes of invoices from Dale and he wasn't too keen on searching through them for this one car.

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Originally Posted by Stefano

I'm not saying that it is not the car in the picture @ Brearger Chevrolet, but what makes you 100% sure of it, so I can follow. Obviously since you have been chasing the car and talking to the original owner family, you have more info than what is posted here.

Such a Kool find!

**luzl78** · #4 10-31-2022, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 69hurstSC

Fair question, Stefano. It's one I've been working on ironing down the hard data on. So far my research is pointing towards a Funny Car meet at Great Lakes Dragway. The Viking Camaro was out of Illinois and these cars would be staged at local dealerships to drum up business. The best educated guess is the Camaro was either dealer traded or lent to Braeger for marketing purposes. I've got a note in with the curator of the Dale Chev documents owner. If the car was traded to Braeger it should be in the paperwork. The last we spoke he had 30 boxes of invoices from Dale and he wasn't too keen on searching through them for this one car.

Ill look through them for you.

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