1969 Olympic Gold Nankivell Yenko YS-9340

[Copo_Cartel]

I give all the credit to Schonye and Joe Schoenthaler for locating the car and Matt Lamer for his detective work locating everyone including the original owner.

[cook_dw]

[Nasblu]

Original 1970 NHRA Nationals Indy Official Entry List. Rick Barratt SS/D in his gold yenko camaro “Motivation”. Alot of big names in this booklet.

[firstgenaddict]

When you start closely inspecting the car and paint check the fenders below the rocker trim for blackout... then check the rockers below the doors.

x66 bodies got blacked out rockers at Norwood.
Dave's (Bill Hunter's) original paint car shows the fenders were never blacked out and the rockers WERE painted body color over blacked rockers EITHER in the touch up at end of Chevrolet Assembly or at YENKO.
The tape job is horrible...

[Copo_Cartel]

We are starting the restoration soon and will inspect that...Troy painted the car maroon in 1979

[firstgenaddict]

Originally Posted by Copo_Cartel

We are starting the restoration soon and will inspect that...Troy painted the car maroon in 1979

With the attention to detail paid in the 67 restoration, this is something I thought I should point out.

I looked at some of the gold pictures and could not tell FOR SURE whether the rockers appeared gold or not...
When I then saw the pictures showing the stripe ends in the door jamb it led me to HOLD out HOPE there is the possibility that the actual original tape job on the rockers could be determined if carefully inspected while stripping the paint.

Most people if they found the huge dip below the rocker molding would never think it came like that, however it did.
NOW actually restoring it like that, well that is up to the customer, however I would think most customers would be OK with the 3/16 wide black strip between the rocker and quarter at the end of the spear on a X66 Yenko, if it were determined that the car was painted that way out of Norwood.

[Copo_Cartel]

Thanks James I will definitely speak this over with Frank I expect to get him the car in the next 30 days

[Nasblu]

Here is a picture of the Yenko approx 1978 still wearing its Olympic Gold paint and notice the blacked out rocker panels and the holes in the fenders under Camaro emblem for the Yenko emblems.

[R68GTO]

Great pic!

[302moz]

Great photo