Black Yenko, Rockford IL

[Tenney]

Photo's a rear 3/4 and so can't tell re:endura (no hint of chrome from this angle, though). Yenko emblem is somewhat high and to the left between the tail lights.

btw, plate's a bit blown out, but looks to be IL. "YSC".

[camaromb]

The "black" originally hugger orange Yenko that was sold in '90 from the Rockford area had YENKO Illinois plates for years.
Mark

[Steve Drueck]

Mark my RG Yenko was also painted black when I bought it in 1985 from the Isenberg's . It was a vinyl top car and it had an L88 hood at the time. I don't know when it became black. It was sold new at Jack Douglass Chev but was a Yenko not a Douglass conversion. It had an LT-1 in it because Chapman Automotive had told him the motor was "shot" and kept it in the swap. It did not have stripes on it after it was black and had chrome bumpers. Black was popular for repaints back then, I must have painted 10 Chevelles and Camaros black myself!

[jeff morocco]

what was a douglss conversion ?

[bigchevydaddy]

A conversion was a COPO ordered by Douglass and "converted" to a Yenko by Douglass using a Yenko stripe kit (obtained from Yenko). Douglass paid yenko a commission for the conversion. Much debate on whether a Douglass conversion is really a Yenko.

[jeff morocco]

so would the vin from the douglass conversion show up on the yenko vin list ?

[ssl78]

No the vin numbers are not on Yenkos vin list since that list is the list of cars he actually ordered. Jeff ask your dad about them when he bought his Chevelle his buddy bought a Yenko Camaro from Douglass that car is now found and it is a Douglass Yenko.

[camaromb]

Steve,
Of course I remember your "black" Yenko. I saw the car in '86 or so with the "Yenko 350 for sale" sign in the side window on the streets of Chicago near Montrose harbor. All I knew at the time was they had 427 engines, the car didn't have stripes, headrest emblems, etc. It only had the tail panel emblem. It must have been a fake! Oops, missed that one! That started me on my search for one. Later when I did some title searching I had all the titles on that car from new, selling dealer Jack Douglas. I gave the copies to the current owner, John O.
Mark

[Steve Drueck]

Mark wow! cool story. I had gotten a call from a friend and he dragged me out to see the (RG Yenko ) car, it was on Lake Shore Drive somewhere on the near north side, just like you remember. Funny thing was, he had a faded sign that said FOR SALE YENKO CAMARO $7500 in the back window the first time I saw it. He had lost his garage storage, and was suddenly parking it on the street. He lived in Skokie or something up north, but his Dad lived on LSD and must have figured it was safer. I had the DY Camaro that I bought from Ed and knew about the SW sender holes, and the tach holes on the dash housing, and the 140. That was all I needed to see, but I didn't have the money. We couldn't get the car, but a week later he ran an ad in the Sun Times for it for only $5500 as a 350 4spd perhaps that was where you got on to it. He never stated Yenko in the ad, so I high tailed it back out there, and brought everything I could scrape up and bought the car before it disappeared. I think that was when he changed the sign to the side window and to 350-4speed. It was painted all black , no stripes, with a glass L88 hood. The interior was still mint, and under the black paint job we honestly did not find Yenko stripes either. Maybe someone peeled them before the paint job, or it never had them. There was no evidence of sYc on either headrest either. It did have the BE and the big sway bar. Very cool, though, that you saw it too. Anyone that wants to see the car as it is now can go to the Mecum website, its being offered at the May auction. It is hands down the prettiest car I ever owned, tied with my 70 Deep Burnt Orange Metallic 440-6 Cuda with the rubber front and rear bumpers. I gotta get with you and look at the copies of the title, Steve

[Xplantdad]

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but his Dad lived on LSD and must have figured it was safer. Steve

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Took me a bit to figure out that you meant <u>L</u>ake <u>S</u>hore <u> D</u>rive!