Were there ever any Yenko or motion cars built that had A/C ?

[JoeC]

Marlin, do not speak ill of D.Y.. His ghost may come on Halloween and put some 1986 sugar in the gas tank of your Deuce! Give Don a little credit after all he was a car salesman and his job was to move product. My guess is that he intended to give them a "loaded" Yenko Chevelle with power steering, auto trans, bucket seats, and vinyl top. The AC option was probably an exaggeration by Don or by the magazine. A Yenko Chevelle equipped that way is fairly plush by SuperCar standards. There is enough room for four adults to sit comfortably and listen to the rear tires squeal as the TH400 bangs through the gears at 6000+ RPM. On a side note, the one owner 4sp Garnet Red Yenko Chevelle that attended the SuperCar Reunions 2&3 has AC, PS, bucket seats, power windows, factory gages, and remote trunk release. The original owner, who transplanted them from parts cars during the 70Ãs, added the options.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The partial VIN's on the COPO site was to narrow down potential cars. It might seem misleading but if you had a '70 Nova that you thought might be a Yenko you could check your VIN against the sight to see if it was within the ball park. If so, then you could request further verification from the site. It would be hard to publish the Yenko VIN's at this time, because they are not all known.
M

[Unreal]

Sixteismuscle,
I inadvertantly started a debate on this subject several months ago; I don't want to resurect it. But to me a clone or "tribute" car (nicer sounding moniker) is made to look like an original, but with the absence of the intent to deceive. "Fakes" in my opinion, include ill intent. I have no intention to represent my car as anything but a nice clone. The problem remains, however, that if I were to sell it, the buyer might not be as honest.
Anyone with anything more than a passing understanding of the COPOs could see in a second, that my car is not real. A/C, 3.73 rear, unaltered engine code (mine is LE,) unaltered VIN on the engine, pass side grab bar...etc, etc. I support the concept of registering clones, and making the information public, so that misrepresentation could be reduced. But with all the clones out there, that's a real chore. And only the honest folk would register. You're right, this debate will continue, ad infinitum.
Gary

[restorer]

Sixtiesmuscle, you could be correct in assuming at least one S/C could be a rebody. In '86 I saw a Yenko for sale on the east coast of Florida the only part left of it was the cowl the rest had rotted into the sand. I didn't buy it one because the $16,000.00 asking price was high for just a serial number and two what would I really have when I was done, in my mind it would be totally wrong.

[bkhpah]

What year Yenko was it 67,68 or 69? Was it a Camaro? I heard about a very nasty 68' out of Florida a few years ago. Could this be the same car?
BKH

[sixtiesmuscle]

Well, I don't mean to bounce from the subject of fakes to re-bodies, BUT, in my opinion, they are certainly very different. While I don't want to own a total rebody for my own purposes, we should undestand that many of the supercars have required extensive bodywork as a result of rust or wrecks. At what subjective point does a "restoration" of a really bad car become a "body swap"? If you put a rusty wreck on a jig and replace floors, fenders, quarters,wheel housings, frame rails, sub frame, and roof, etc,etc, but the firewall stays in place, is it a really good resto, a body swap, or a rebody? Is the person who did this a crook or the savior of a piece of automotive history?

[restorer]

bkhpah: sorry I wasn't a little more specific but it was a blue '69 Camaro, anyone else heard of this car and what became of it?