1969 Yenko Camaro colors?

[bkhpah]

They did offer Daytona Yellow and Hugger Orange on the Yenko Chevelle's. The Turbo Z colors were red, bright blue, white, brown, silver, and black. You might be on the right train of thought on the color selection for the Camaro's.
BKH

I thought those colors were available but I was told by two other Yenko Chevelle owners that there weren't any built in those colors and that the only yellow was Butternut Yellow. Its funny that both guys have Butternut Yellow Chevelles. How many Daytona Yellow Chevelles were there? Hugger Orange? Just wondering and always willing to learn.....Rat Pack.......

[bkhpah]

The record that I have for the Chevelles are incomplete at this time but I do have 6 Hugger Orange {2 4-speed and 4 auto's} and six Daytona Yellow all 4-speeds.
BKH

[Chevy454]

JoeC (who frequents this board) has a Hugger Orange Yenko Chevelle.

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It is interesting to note that in 1970, Yenko ordered the Novas in 8 colors but ordered the low impact colors first. There were 3 high impact colors; Huggar Orange, Citrus Green, and Sunflower Yellow. These were all ordered in the later order. It is unknown if Yenko was unaware of these colors when he ordered the first 125 cars on December 16, 1969. I believe that Sunflower Yellow was originally intended to be a Corvette only color, and was not even listed on the color charts until '71. I believe Yenko left nothing to chance when he decided his color selection, and like Rat Pack says, he was surely aware as to what appealled to the market.

Marlin

[JoeC]

A possible reason as to why Yenko only chose six colors for the 1969 Yenko Camaro is in the way he managed his inventory system. Yenko seemed to use the car colors to group the car on his inventory sheet so maybe by limiting the colors it would simplify his inventory tracking and at the same time match the color availability from the assembly plant in the given time frame of the order. I have a œ meet the mean ones! œ ad from a 1969 magazine hanging in my office here and it lists the cars specs but does not reference anything on color availability. Did any of the Yenko ads state in advance, that the Camaro was limited to six colors?

Has there ever been a 69 Yenko Camaro show up in the Roanoke/Martinsville area that was burgandy w/white stripes? I was at Camaro Junction in 1991 and the owner told me about one he bought used in 1971 and then sold to someone locally and he said it was still around. I questioned him about the color but he said that it was an original burgandy car with all of the paperwork. Was there such a car or could it have been a COPO car that had the stuff added later by Yenko? Food for thought............Rat Pack.........