R&S Chev, Joplin

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

This car is Fathom Blue, supposedly with black stripes, it has an automatic, and power steering. Car was last owned in AR by Dean Bitner, who bought it from Ira Nichols. It was then sold to another yard owner about 10-15 years ago. It is unknown what dealership the car was sold out of. The Yenko network dealers in that area are R&S Chev, Joplin, MO, and Peck Chev, Little Rock, AR. A few network dealers that were a little farther away were, Francis Chev, St. Louis, Johnny Londoff Chev, Flourissant, MO, and Riley Chev, Jefferson City, MO.

thanks for searching,
M

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The last prior owner that I know of for this car is Barbara Berner, but am not sure what town she was from. According to www.whitepages.com she is not in the area, or has an unlisted number. Dean Bitner never titled the car in his name, he kept it as an open title - as it still is today!

The car probably had white stripes, and would have looked like this;



If the car did have black stripes, it would look like this;



Thanks,
Marlin

[71LS5]

Marlin,

Here is some additional information that I came up with during my search for the Nichols'.

There is a guy here in Rogers by the name of Rick Blevins who has been around here for ages and was/is into muscle cars. His dad used to own the Chrysler dealership here in Rogers during the late '60's and early '70's.
Anyway, I asked him if he had ever run across the Nichols' and their Duece. He seems to remember one but he thought the owner was either a Tim Jermeir or Larry Shelley. What he could not remember was exactly what color it was and if it was a Yenko car. May have been a Nicky car. And the color, he thought, was charcoal gray.

Anyway, I will try to get in touch with Larry Shelley tonight. He still lives in the area. Am still trying to track down the Nichols' and Dean Bitner for you as well.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Thanks!!

[71LS5]

M,

Just got off the phone with Larry Shelley. He is a guy in his mid 50's and a used car dealer. Said he bought what he thought was a Duece in Little Rock about 1975-76 time frame. Blue car, special door panels, Yenko badges. No stripes but thinks it had been repainted. Had a 350 in it when he got it. He had bought and sold the car 2 or 3 times during the next 4 or 5 years. Sold it to someone up in Pea Ridge. Then a Jim Hill bought it from the guy in Pea Ridge, and Larry ended up with it again. The owners in Pea Ridge apparently had dropped a big block in it. He sold it to some gal in Bentonville and she blew the motor out of it.
Last he heard, he thought the old car was sitting somewhere off the 540 bypass between here and Ft Smith.


Anyway, he also had a '69 "Dickey H" Camaro at the time. Blueish silver in color and ended up somewhere in Minnesota. Was painted black by the time it went up there.

Not sure if this helps much or not. If you need to talk to him, he is a great guy and have told him I will post his number for you to get ahold of him if you need to. Larry is at 501-636-9239.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

71;
Thanks a bunch, that helps a lot!! Will be sure to call this guy and pick his brain about this car, and others.
Thanks again,
M

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Spoke with L.Shelley today, he was most helpful with the history of this car. It turns out he sold the car to one of the people listed on the title, so it is one in the same.

He could not confirm that it was or was not a YENKO since he did not purchase it new, only remembered that it had an emblem and some door panel stickers - both items available through the catalog. He initially thought it was a HARRELL car, as the emblem looked similar from across a parking lot. He sold it at his car lot sometime in '76.

Thanks again for the contact,
Marlin