An interesting Yenko story

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Talked with Jerry again today and met Jack, another owner in this Yenko. The story has changed some but it is all coming together.
There were three other guys with Jerry that owned this car together when they raced it back when. I will refer to Jerry and the other owners as JJJR, Jerry, Jack, Jim and Richard (who might still have pictures).

I met Jack today, who was one of the four. He brought more to the table about this car but unfortunately, I am about three months too late. Seems he was cleaning up about three months ago and threw all the pictures away that he had of this car. OUCH!!!

In my first post, I said Jerry bought it from Central Chevy, which he corrected today. JJJR bought the car from a person (so far only known as Keith) in Dayton that bought it from Central. He was injured in an accident and with his settlement, he bought the car from Central (donít sure which one at this time) and a pool hall. Keith bought the aluminum 427 from Allen Chevrolet and had it installed in the car in 1971. Keith also had someone cut the rear fenders out which JJJR put back in. Jack remembers running around to different body shops looking for the fender wells that were cut out.

JJJR bought the car in 1972 off of Keith instead of 1971 like I previously stated, so they were third owners. When I showed Jerry and Jack the pic of the Gilchrist car, they both thought this was the car. They bought the car as showed in the pics I posted, they never saw the car as original but they did get some pics of the car as it was originally and think that this car is one in the same. Hopefully Richard will have those pictures.

We talked quite a bit about the fact that the Gilchrist car was an automatic and the JJJR car was a four speed. They could not remember if there was the indicator in the speedo or a place on the column for the shifter. As we are talking it also comes out that Richard of JJJR, is the one who actually put the original engine back into the car. Richard had to go back to Keith to buy it, but Jerry went and picked it up and he seems to think that there was an automatic transmission attached to that engine.

We also talked about the color of the car and they do not know anything about it. They thought it was the original color but as Jerry was looking at the pics, he saw what was pointed out as a silver door jamb.

I am waiting a phone call from the next owner (D.) after JJJR to see what he remembers and if it might have went to Cincinnati as Jerry now thinks. Also Richard will be in town this week to see Jerry and I will talk with Jerry next weekend again for more info. Hopefully more pics and more leads. More next week.
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