69 Camaro's Canonsburg yard pic?

[Daytona Yellow 69 Z28]

Neat picture. If you could only turn back the clock, I think we would all own a couple of those.

[T Billigen]

I believe all the Yenko Camaros came with the COPO/9737 "Sports Car Conversion" which included the ralley wheels.

[Rat_Pack]

Hey has anyone here ever noticed that the Hugger Orange car in the center of the picture has fender pinstriping? You can see it a little clearer on the Camaro Untold Secrets site copy of this picture. Bet that car is an X11 style trim car. Wonder if the pinstriping was removed before he added his decals and emblems?...................RatPack................ ..

[Stefano]

Rat_Pack,
Very interesting observation, part of the X-11 trim package was the double pinstripe painted on the fender and 1/4 pannel wheel well peaks.

I have seen other pictures and original X-11 coded Camaro COPOs such as those from Berger and some of the other dealers that have all had the X-11 pin stripes.

Since the Yenkos were to be striped could there have been a 'COPO" order pinstripe delete on the order sheets? Could it be that the ones which had the pinstripes were for Yenkos ordered that were not to have Yenko Stripes installed?

[copo69]

Ever since I saw this picture in MCR years ago I've wondered about some of the cars' colors in the picture. That vinyl top car has always appeared Garnet Red and it looks like there is a black car also. I know they may be orange and Fathom green but they look like a different hue from the other green and orange cars in the picture.

[bkhpah]

I would think that the pin stripes were easily removed. I have never seen an X11 Yenko with both style striping. On the Harrell cars, if the stripe was in the way of the custom stripe that was applied, the factory stripe was buffed away. It would take almost nothing to remove the quickly applied factory pin striping...BKH

[Stefano]

bkhpah,
You may be 100% correct. I think that there may be more to it ,however.

It just wouldn't follow that a dealer would create additional work for himself when it wouldn't be required.

I have asked Jack Douglass this same question, as all his Direct COPO orders were X-11 coded.

He remembers that his COPOs arrived without the X-11 pin stripes, but recalls somehow designating them to be pinstripe delete(per Don Yenko's order format).

I would not agree that the pinstripes would be 'easily' removed by buffing them off.

While an accomplished professional could wet sand them flat and finish them off with a buffer,your standard dealer 'prep' or 'get ready' personel, as they were commonly called would not be allowed near a new car with a buffer.

Since these were all batched special orders (not built one at a time)it would make sense to me to have a pin stripe delete for Yenko Camaros.

Is your original paint Yenko X-11 coded?

[JoeC]

I am not so sure that car has pin stripeing on it. If you look at the other cars, they appear to have dust or something on the hoods and trunks. The dust may have settled on the fender in a way to make it look like striping but may be just the dust highlighting the edge and shows up in the picture. It also looks to be too wide to be a pin stripe.

[Stefano]

T Billigen,
I would say that due to the Silver Grill, Chevy Bowtie and Cowl Induction Hood that the Camaro is a COPO. I only have the picture from this site, so I can not determine if they are stripes or not.

[Denis]

Where is the picture originally from, as in what book or what magazine? If I knew, I could rescan the original.