Does anyone know this 1969 Yenko Camaro

[Bob Jenkins]

Cool story.....I am looking forward to seeing the pics

[Steven J]

I grew up next door in Downers Grove, but don't recall seeing a Yenko, although the memory has faded after all these years. Did the car have a name painted on it when it was made into a race car ?

[hvychev]

I have to ask him some more questions. We talked for 45 minutes while doing the paperwork on the truck and so much was said that I forgot some of it. I will write things down when he comes in next week. He also named other race tracks he raced at that I can't remember. I just hope he will let me copy the pictures he is bringing in or I could take a picture of them with a digital camera. I will try and find out more and keep you all posted.

[hvychev]

I am off of work tonight and I got a call from my partner and she said that Craig J left the pictures for me in my office. Pretty cool of him, I did not think he would do that. I will copy them at Kinkos Copys and try and figure out how to post them for every one to see. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

[hvychev]

An update on this car.....Craig left me the pictures that he took of this car at Chevy Vettefest in 3/94. The car is Ralley Green, 4 speed, black interior, ralleys, 140 mile per hour spedo. I got some more info that I wrote down this time. He grew up in Woodridge Il and heard of Fencil-tufo from a couple of gearhead friends of his thru Hoffman Automotive in Chicago. They said that if he wanted a trick car that F-T Chevy was the place to go. He went there with his father and when he saw the color and the fact that it was a 427 he was sold. He said that he paid $3,000. MR 70 I asked him if he could remember the salesmans name and he did'nt. He said that no one gave him a fancy sales pitch about it being a Yenko because not even the salesman knew what it was. Craig told me that his friend that was his race partner in the Camaro, traded the steel front end even for a fiber glass one. The fiber glass front end was a natural grey and then did not match the ralley green paint. His friend took a flat black primer like paint and painted the whole car to match all while Craig was on vacation!! He was livid to say the least. Stephen J, the car did not have a race name that he could remember. He said that they painted some "hodge podge" name on it but could'nt remember it. A couple of interesting things, when he told me that he bought it only a year old with 3k miles I thought how could it have went all the way from Cannonsberg to Glendale Heights Il so early? The pictures show a painted display sign that Gary Dyer had painted about the car and it was one of the first 50 cars from Cannonsberg, and it was delivered new to Jack Douglas Chevrolet in Hinsdale Il so it makes more sense to me....Stephano? Another interesting thing is that Craig said That FOR SURE the car had white Yenko stripes when he bought it. The car was restored with black ones. Craig said that he told Gary this but Gary said that the info he had got on the car said that they were black. Craig said that how could that have been because when he bought it, it was definately original paint and stripes and only had 3k miles. He told me that he kept the original blue bow tie embelm from the rear panel as a souviner and is displayed on his book case at home. He said that he sold it to Gary in 11/93 and it was completely restored and being shown at vette fest by 3/94. The car was sold with the original engine that Craig bought it with in 1970. It was on an engine stand in his garage but the block was sleaved. Does any one know who owns this car now? I was told by members of this board that Gary sold the car. No owner after Gary has tried to contact Graig J, which suprises me because after all he owned this car for 23 years and has lots to say about it. It was registered with the Copo Connection, because the plaque is in one of the pictures. If any one would like to see the pictures from Vette Fest 94 of this car I could have them scanned and post them. A funny thing is when I was grilling Craig for all these details I told them that I would share them with my "Yenko Connections" and he laughed and said "what the heck, are there Yenko cults out care that actually care about these details!" [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Sorry about another rambling post!!!!

[JoeC]

Frank, it is an interesting story and thanks for taking the time to get it and post it. There are definitely some nuts out here that like to hear the Yenko ghost stories.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Sounds like it might be one of those Douglass cars since Yenko removed the bowtie on the rear panel and installed the YENKO emblem and the 427 emblem using those two existing holes - to my knowledge. Did Douglass do that?

[ssl78]

I do remember this Yenko because I used to sell parts to Gary Dyer. This was a Yenko yenko not a Douglas Yenko, I know because at the time I owned a Yenko and we used to talk about theese cars . One time when Gary came over he had just picked up the original block from the previous owner and we checked it out. I even still have pictures of the block with the vin number on it and yes the block was sleeved. He also had a 1969 Yenko Nova that was sold to Gary Holub maybe the Camaro was also sold to him. Gary Dyer was a really nice guy anybody still hear from him.

[Stefano]

Marlin,
Very perceptive. The Jack Douglass Non Cannonsberg Yenkos had the Yenko Crest to the right of the Chevy Bowtie.

Jack has stated that this placement was used because at least one of the Cannonsberg Yenkos delivered to his dealership used similar emblem placement. He also stated that the Fender Crest was above the Fender Belt Line not under the Camaro Emblem.

We have both documented Cannonsberg Cars and Douglass Direct Yenkos with the Blue Bowtie and Yenko Crest parallel and to the right.

The vin would tell us if it was a one of the Cannonsberg List Yenkos.

If he has the "Bowtie" from the rear pannel and it is a Yenko List Camaro then it could have been the model for emblem placement on his Direct Order Yenkos.

It is Ironic that I spoke with Jack today to see if he might make it to the reunion. He said that he a will try and make it [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img] .