What exactly does sYc stand for?

[Mr70]

I think Unreal is talking about Specially made license plates.Many dealers had those made to advertise the car,as some still do it today.

[Edited by mr70 (09-04-2001 at 09:06 AM).]

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I don't think I've seen them either, what were they like?
M

[SuperCars]

The GM Factory Exception Control Letter Sheets for COPO 9737 start with the designation at the bottom of Sports Car Conversion in 12-11-67. On 4-18-68 the ECL is changed and redesignated as Sports Car Conversion/Yenko/ (coincidently the same time frame a certain 68 Camaro showed up with 427 "special order Drag Car"). It would be my guess that SYC stands for Yenko Sports Car as a derivative or spin-off from the designation of "Sports Car" on the COPO 9737 Exception Control Letter Sheet from GM.

[JoeC]

SYC most likely stands for "Yenko Sportscars." In 1966 Yenko built his modified Corvairs to race in SCCA competition. They were converted to a two seat sports car with a fiberglass panel to make it look more like a coupe instead of a sedan. The Chevy emblems were removed and Yenko Stinger decals and stripes were added. The Stinger had many other modifications and Yenko was classified by the SCCA as the manufacturer. Yenko had to prove he built at least 100 Stingers and had to submit the serial numbers to SCCA. You could not race a Corvair in that class - you had to have a Stinger registered serial number. I have an original SCCA book "Production Car Specifications" where the production car model is listed as "Stinger Coupe" and the manufacturer is listed as "Yenko Sportscars." Also there is a cover letter written by Yenko where he introduces a new Yenko Stinger based on the Vega. In this letter he writes "Yenko Sportscars" distributed such names as the "Yenko Super Camaro" the "Yenko Chevelle 427" and the "Yenko Deuce." Although the term "supercar" was used in the mid 60's, I have so far not found any Yenko literature that used the term "Yenko Supercars".

[bowtie3168]

Here is the formula:
Start with one Don Yenko: add the desire to go SCCA racing with a Corvette (Sports Car Club of America): add the fact that the Corvettes were getting factored so that the Shelbys were doing better: add that Don's first group of cars were Corvairs: add documentation that was at the reunion: and that equals= Yenko Sports Cars.
Andrew

[Belair62]

Guess we beat the hell out of this one !! O.K. so why did Nickey Chevrolet have a backwards K ? Was it just poor spelling ?

[MikeA]

Belair62,

Your right!! That is what makes this site GREAT!!

MikeA