Nickey -Yenkos

[Stefano]

Yes,Joe I agree it is a very interesting article and there are quite a few detail inconsistencies. If anyone hasn't read it in a while, like me, it will make for interesting reading.

It seems that the major focus was routinely on the 500 Copos and the mention that the Chevelles were conversion cars, but there is more,much more.

For Don Yenko to mistakenly identify Nickey Chevrolet as selling sYcs would be highly unlikely.

Nickey was a high profile dealership. They sold much more in parts, service and Car volume than Yenko Chevrolet. Don would have known of Nickey without any of the other connections.


Yenko was also familiar with Nickey through his roadracing exploits.

Dick Harrell linked both these two Delerships.

COPOs were much less expensive/profitable than conversion cars. It wouldn't make much sense for a dealer to convert a car which he could COPO order.

Don also states that Payton Wells/Dana Chevrolet offered to sell him conversion Camaros first, not the other way around.

I have always speculated that Nickey sold COPOs in 1969 but I don't ever recall hearing that they came from Yenko Chevrolet.