'69 Yenko Nova questions

[micky69396]

Thats kind of what I thought. You do the cars the way the customer wants, sometimes though its not the best way. Others make judgements off what they see and not what you can do. You have these guys that want the killer cars and then wont spend the $$$ to make them right, but they spend the money on the stupid stuff, drives me crazy. I am lucky and have not had much of that. I have seen other cars that Dave has done and thought they were very nice.

[Edited by micky69396 (07-14-2000 at 08:21 PM).]

[sixtiesmuscle]

It's great to see that guys who know alot more than me have honest disagreements about facts relating to these cars. Once again, be wary of "always" and "never" statements.

[Keith Tedford]

427 transplants into SS cars was the cheapest and most reliable route to go. With this package you already had the 12 bolt rear end and all the rest of the heavy duty pieces. If the Chevy II/Nova build sheets were like the ones for the Chevelle in 1969, the COPO code (9566AA in our case)shows up on the build sheet at the left hand side of the page below the list of options. The 427 engine code, not the 396 code, will show up in the engine code box at the top of the page. The L78 option shows up in the option list however. It seems like all the COPO Chevelles and Camaros had the specially heat treated 4.10 gears. A COPO Chevelle got the KQ rear end while the L78 Chevelles got a KK 4.10 rear end. I would assume that factory '69 427 Novas would probably have the same arrangement for the sake of durability.

[JoeC]

Carl Dwiggins had a white Yenko Chevelle (now in Reggie's collection) with a big NOS plenum air cleaner with the duct boot bolted to the firewall. It looked odd on there but if thats what he wanted...
His restoration guy must have went nuts though.

[Charley Lillard]

My Yellow Z28 also has a 4 speed tranny out of someones 69 Yenko that Carl was having restored at the same time. If Dave said " Carl, I need a tranny to keep going " Carl would have him take what was around. The #'s matching 302 out of my car went into a red Z28

[Charley Lillard]

And yes his restoration guy did go nuts. It's pretty funny when he stars ranting about that stuff.

[Fhakya]

Anyone know of any pics of Reggie Jacksons '73 Nova on the net? I'd love to see that!