67 yenko emblem placement?

[Supercar_Kid]

Joe C...how do you mean...please explain the original engine size in relation to emblem theory. I've never seen a period photo of a '67 Yenko with anything other than '67 Corvette 4-2-7 individual numerals installed, typically on the lower front fenders. I can understand perhaps they tried to cover the existing holes in most cases, but not always, the prototype Deuce still had the holes in the front fenders where the 250's were removed, and I know for example Dick Harrell cars didn't always get the new emblems in the old holes...close enough was just that. Let me know what you've come up with on the '67s.

[JoeC]

The SB 67 Camaro had a small "V" on the fender. The BB 67 Camaro had a big V fender emblem like the 66 Impala 396 emblem. Yenko swapped the 396 "V" emblem for the 427 "V" emblem which I believe fit in existing holes. The 67 Yenko Camaros were real "sleepers." No Yenko badges or stripes, just a 427 emblem on the fender. Some were assembled at Yenko and some at the Dick Harrell shop and came with headers, scatter shield, traction bars, and were advertised as a AHRA legal drag car. With the available 4:88 gear it must have been a quick car. Not much info is available but I believe most of the 67 Yenko Camaros were L78 conversions that Yenko bought on some type of special order and sent some to the Dick Harrell shop to help with the conversion orders.

[bkhpah]

I have original papers on one 67 that even had Yenko "fill and paint" the engine ID holes shut. This is a real sleeper move...BKH

[Supercar_Kid]

I am curious about the process Yenko mechanics may have used to remove the factory engine indentifications from the front fenders of the '67 cars. I doubt they'd be too interested in removing inner/outer fenders to access the factory speed nuts, but aside from trying to break the pins off the castings with vise grips or some other hack master method that's about the only choice. I'm assuming any new badging would have been attached using "push clips." Any thoughts, experiences?

[JoeC]

I would guess that you can just start removing fender bolts until you can get enough room to reach your hand up to remove the emblem. The fender would come off fairly easy when the car was new but I think it can be done without complete fender removal. Different story on an older car where the rusty speed nut clips break and the nuts spin. If they replace bolts and shims as they found them the emblem replacement should come out ok. They weren't building show cars where they check the fender/door gaps with a dial caliber [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Were the '69 Yenko cars' emblems attached with push-clips? I assumed that the time involved with attaching them was what caused Yenko to break off the pins on the '70 Yenko Novas, and use double sided tape. No Yenko Deuces have been found with pins, all have been tape - even on the decklid.

[Supercar_Kid]

While I've never personally removed a Yenko emblem from an untouched Yenko car, I'd have to say that at least the fender crests were attached using "push clips" in 1969. My brother owns numerous examples of original Yenko emblems, including the '69 pinned crests that have straight cylindrical pins, not tapered at the ends like a GM type emblem. Any used original examples we have ever found have had no "thread marks" on the studs as would be left by a speed nut, and most other dealers of this time used push clips to intsall their dealer name badges. (we'll use my brother's original Grossman emblem as an example, it still retain's it's original push clips) Push clips weren't anything new in '69 and they're always easier to use than trying to access the backside of a panel to install a fast/speed nut. The shape of the original pins on a '69 Yenko R/W/B crest, in addition to the lack of any we've ever found having thread marks on them leads me to believe that most if not all were attached using push pins, the exception being perhaps the easy to access tailpan emblems. Another interesting emblem note however, is the pair or original '69 Yenko Chevelle 427 emblems in my brother's collection. These 427 emblems, the type with the bar underneath, have been filed at an angle to neatly fit the eyebrow moulding on the '69 Chevelle. I believe this to be originally done at Yenko as they were removed from the car very early in it's life. Certainly not all Yenko Chevelles got this extra time consuming detail treatment, but this example shows it's safe to say that Yenko mechanics would do whatever it took to make it happen. Also interesting to note is the fact that any original 68 style Yenko 427 numerals we've dug up (the ones without the bar underneath) have had threaded studs, like fine machine screw threads not fast nut threads, which looks like evidence of these being installed with regular old square machine nuts, like the kind you'd find in an erector set, but then again these were used (most often, but not always) at the fronts of the fenders on 68 Camaros and even some 69 Chevelles, where they are easier to reach the backsides. My brother also has period photos of Yenko cars sporting both the 68 style (no bar) 427's and the 69 style (bar underneath) on the same car. So mixing and matching wasn't a problem for the Yenko mechanics either. I know of at least one '69 Yenko Camaro that was sold new at Yenko with out any crests on the fenders at all. I'd be curious to see what original untouched cars like Bill Hunter's Daytona Yellow X66 have holding the emblems on. I'd bet you'd find push clips on the fenders and hood, and perhaps nuts on the tailpan.

[berger]

I just got a 67 's vin verifyed by the registry, but its got some fill in the fenders emblems holes and the rear RS backup lights, they look like they never were there, very clean job, car is spotless and has no bondo, what type of orders do you have