1972 YENKO VEGA

Thanks Rob and Tom for the info. I will post the vin # as soon as I receive the title on Saturday. Maybe it is recorded in your documents. Is your turbo unit complete, and still for sale? I may know someone who wants it! HawaiianCamaro, as soon as I receive the car I will post the trim tag info.

[T Billigen]

Neat car Dave! Did not see to many of these around back then. Does anyone know how many different colors they came in?

[sYc]

According to an add from 1971, 5 colors, white, blue, grren, red and silver. Tom

[sYc]

I have the turbo unit only, but the remaining parts would not be too hard to find/build, as I have complete instructions with part numbers, and even a couple of pictures of the unit on a Vega. As per selling it, I did offer it once, but that was before I had recieved all of the other items to go with it. I may hang on to it now, in case some day I decide to acquire a Yenko Vega for myself. Tom

[Schonyenko2]

In 1972 or73, was driving through Wisconson dells, on our way to Eagle River, coming down the driveway of one of the many motels was a sunflower yellow Yenko vega, black stripes, spoilers, etc. It was coming down an incline and you could hear the turbo whining as he had it in a lower gear. I remember thinking that it looked like the little brother to the deuce I had at home. I may be old, and senile, but somewhere out there is, or was, a code 52 yellow Yenko vega.
Ken

[JChlupsa]

If i remember right there was one (yellow) in Monroe WS, around the same time frame..

[Edited by HawaiianCamaro (04-20-2002 at 01:45 AM).]

[JoeC]

Here is a picture of a yellow Yenko Stinger Vega prototype. The stripes are different then the production car. I have another picture of this car that shows a Chevy Manufacturer license plate on it. Chevy was working on turbo cars in the early seventies. They also had a prototype turbo Nova that was in a magazine article. Jerry Thompson was a Chevy engineer who drove the Yenko Stinger (Corvair) to an SCCA Championship in 1967 and he stated in an article that he remembers working on a turbo Vega at Chevy. Maybe Don was given info on the turbo Vega after Chevy decided not to market the car.