'68 Camaro on Yenko VIN list

[bergy]

Engine assembly stamp on the block appears to be T0521ID. Quit screwing around with the community by just saying that it’s dated just prior to the car. It’s not a CE block. Disclose what you have found. Also, you were asked for the distance between the holes on the door jamb. Tell the community what the distance is. There are a lot of very knowledgeable enthusiast who own real 68 Yenkos with real door tags here. They can confirm your measurement on real cars.

[bergy]

Regarding the door tag holes. Are you measuring the distance between the hole next to the dome light switch & the smaller hole below the dome light switch? If so, those holes would mount the tag incorrectly.

[JoeC]

normally the YS tag is located above the dome light switch

[69hurstSC]

Originally Posted by bergy

Engine assembly stamp on the block appears to be T0521ID. Quit screwing around with the community by just saying that it’s dated just prior to the car. It’s not a CE block. Disclose what you have found. Also, you were asked for the distance between the holes on the door jamb. Tell the community what the distance is. There are a lot of very knowledgeable enthusiast who own real 68 Yenkos with real door tags here. They can confirm your measurement on real cars.

I'm not screwing around. Who put the car on the list in 2002 then waited 23 years to remove it yesterday? Why would you email me, "Long story on the car", then not disclose a single thing about it other than mentioning the driver side damage? You said the CRG put it on due to it having a door tag. If this site has the threshold you denote, why wasn't the car vetted years ago, and again in 2014 when it was purported to be on eBay?

I asked all very solid and non-confrontational questions, and denoted half-a-dozen times that I'm fine with it not being a Yenko.

There's a credibility concern with leaving a car on a list 23 years and having an owner harassed with calls. Don't spin this like I'm the one that's in the wrong.

[Steve Shauger]

Wes, you didn't even look at the car or do your diligence before purchasing. Stop with the list blame game, and go and enjoy your Camaro. There's a lot of information and knowledgeable members but you chose not to discuss and become informed until AFTER the fact. You haven't even looked at the hidden VINs, know the location of YS tag mounting or bothered to clean the paint off the rear axle stamping.

At this point nothing productive is being added.

[ryanchevelle]

If the guy who built the car for his wife knew he had a real yenko in 2015 he either sold it for non real yenko money because he wanted the keepsakes or the buyer paid real yenko money for an undocumented car. Neither of those makes sense to me. No one’s leaving that kind of money on the table for sentimental keepsakes and that applies to buyer and seller. And he refuses to even send a picture of the items? I know some people are hard to deal with but surely something appeals to almost all types of personalities. Figure it out and go that route, if money doesn’t motivate, maybe pride/prestige does. “No one believes it’s a real car, help me prove them wrong” or “the car deserves to be recognized as a real car and your and your wife’s story is part of the cars history to be told” type of thing. Just another idea if moneys not a motivator.

[Kurt S]

Originally Posted by 69hurstSC

I did ask if I could purchase the build sheet

Build sheet? Wonder what that could be because no 1st gen came with one.

[69hurstSC]

Originally Posted by Kurt S

Build sheet? Wonder what that could be because no 1st gen came with one.

Correction. Paperwork is the wording he used.

[JoeC]

Yenko did do customer conversions such as the 1975 Yenko Trans Am L-88.

It would be hard to prove without original paperwork like the L-88 Trans Am has or an old magazine/news article or ad.

There was also a Yenko Turbo Corvette that was in a magazine article back in the day and other special Yenko built cars.

Yenko did a VW Karmann Ghia Corvair engine conversion for a customer documented by a for sale ad from back in the day

[69hurstSC]

Right, Joe. I have a very thorough log of over 350 Yenko classified ads placed from back in the day. Of all those cars, I'm most intrigued by this one, and have done considerable research to locate the car. It's impossible to gauge by the ad the validity of the claim, but an L88 '69 Nova by Yenko would be an all-time car.

So yeah, I'll continue on with my historical research regarding this Camaro. I never claimed it to be a Yenko. I've only asked appropriate questions to gather more insight as to what this car used to be. I don't need to be ridiculed for questioning who put this car on this list, what information they have "It's a long story", and accused of buying a car that I didn't do my research on. I did my homework before buying this car and paid fair market value for a customized '68 Camaro that I wanted to conduct research on. The members of this page who think they're clever for the way the correspond does nothing other than question the motives and validity of who's in charge of adding cars to the list.

Funny, I had engaging and interesting dialogue with them before asking about the threshold of who could add/subtract cars. From there on you can see what unfolded.

I'll share with you privately some of the cool ads I've got clipped from Yenko related classifieds.