MUSCLE CAR REVIEW's Yenko Camaro #202

[169yenko]

Wonder how they insure it? 69 or 08. Gotta be some high insurance on a 2008 427 powered vehicle. Why don't people call their stuff what it is. "it is not a rebody"
Sounds like "Clintonese"..."I did not rebody this Camaro".

[Andy]

They say that the cars are a continuation in the series, and are clearly marked on the vin tag as "yenko series". Don Yenko didn't build them so, its someone else's idea of what the car should be.

They talk about authenticity, and trying to replicate the cars as best as they can, but I see a comfort grip steering wheel on the car in the magazine. I have never seen a comfort grip wheel on a 69 Yenko Camaro. They have the rims mounted on firestone wide oval tires, but the copo package had rallyes with E70x15 wide tread tires, right? Yenko offered the atlas wheels as an option, but I thought those also had the wide tread gt tires. The continuations also have a "rock crusher" M22 in the car, but all 4 speed cars were equipped with M21s, right? Did any 4 speed cars have power steering in 69? I thought only the automatic equipped cars had that option. Thats 4 big things that I spotted within a few minutes of looking at the article. I'm sure there are more things.

It would be cool to have a completely new 69 Camaro decked out in the yenko treatment, and I think that is what is attracting the younger buyers. I guess there are options you can add to the car to have it like you would want it, but that that strays away from the concept of an exact clone/recreation/contiuation...ect.... if you deviate from what "the man" did in 69.

[camarojoe]

4 speed cars could get power steering too... the Wide Oval repop firestones look out of place on ANY pre-70 Chevrolet IMO, as does a repop 3 spoke steering wheel. I always get a kick out of how stuff like this comes out and they call it #1 of xxx... when really it will most likely be 1 of 1, if they can find even that one guy to pony up some 90+k for a taiwan camaro. To each his own I guess, and it is what it is... but I think you could look on ebay on any given day of the week and find something as good or better for far less coin. Now Bob's car on the other hand... (aside from those silly redline radials of course ) , its got it goin' on!

[ORIGLS6]

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The real story is Belair Bobs COPO Chevelle in the new MCR. A REAL COPO Chevelle. BKH

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[camarojoe]

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The real story is Belair Bobs COPO Chevelle in the new MCR. A REAL COPO Chevelle. BKH

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Saw that! One of the coolest COPO Chevelles ever... Congrats Bob!

[LS6 RAT]

Here is another portion of the article, in quote "In 2004, Jim assembled the Hot Rod 1 Camaro convertible, a Steve Stanford designed profiler, from the first Dynacorn reproduction Camaro convertible body. In doing so, he instigated the legal process that concluded with that car becoming the first new, all-steel, fully finished , GM-licensed and -approved, legally titled '69 Camaro in 35 years."

[rick rothermel]

Hi guys!
I'm the cretin who wrote the article, Thanks for the comments! Good to know someone's reading!
Great site here, too!
Okay! The M21 thing is my fault, Jim gave the correct info but I mis-read or something, it's my bad.
Now, about the car, many good comments here but I tried to keep editorial comments out of the material. Seems to me though that with the GM and Yenko estate granting license to the manufacture of the car does give a bit of credibility,
and DAMN! it is one kick-ass car!
I am also reminded, though, of a quote from my favorite fiction author, Robert B Parker: 'A thing is what it is... it's not something else'.
To me, #202 'the real thing' because of the content, the intent, the talent required, and licenses granted. That's the way the world works today, for good or not. Whatever else the car is, is up to personal interpretation.
but, it'd be waaaay better to have one of those than nothing...

[Stefano]

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Could it be???

[bkhpah]

Unless they restored it minus the top. And added the stripe. I doubt it..BKH

[Charley Lillard]

That's what I believed happened.