68 yenko - Page 11

**YenkoYS-199Stinger** · #**101** 10-29-2008, 11:38 PM

Mark G,

Glad to see you are lurking over here. I hope all is well.

Everyone should have his book. Lots of good stuff.

**PeteLeathersac** · #**102** 10-29-2008, 11:54 PM

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W...welcome Mark!.

~ Pete

sYc · #**103** 10-30-2008, 12:08 AM

Speaking of books about Yenko, spoke with Bob McClurg this morning. He is to meet with members of the Yenko family this evening to do some proof work for his upcoming book on Yenko. They have been able to provide several unpublished pictures, as well as quite a bit of information.

**YenkoYS-199Stinger** · #**104** 10-30-2008, 12:11 AM

Mark is a wealth of walking Yenko information. But then again, he lived it. Lucky devil.

budnate · #**105** 10-30-2008, 01:36 AM

it's been awhile but I thought I read where Tom sold the car awhile after it was new and had kept the original motor under his bench until he bought it back...dont recall what was in it when he found it if anything. sound right??

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Seems at the time Tom bought it back it had an L-88 engine in it, maybe Yenko, sold that to go into a Motion car, then some how the original engine surfaced.

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**mockingbird812** · #**106** 10-30-2008, 01:47 AM

I would recommend not conjecturing on this car as it does not sound like anyone has definitive information and I am sure noone here wants to unnecessarily tarnish the reputation of Robin's Yenko. Ed (enio45) is on the road and I have a call into him. I am not saying that he knows definitively the details of this car, but if anyone knows it would be the guy that owns the only other non-converted '68.

Thanks!

budnate · #**107** 10-30-2008, 02:17 AM

Sam I am bad at finding old threads here, pull it up if you can?, Tom shared openly all about the car, he bought new and was so happy to buy it again.

**Mr70** · #**108** 10-30-2008, 03:12 AM

Here's that thread bud..
The late Tom Billigen was selling his 69 Yenko at that time to buy his 68 camaro back.The last reply on page 1 and there after is where he begins about finding it again.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...0/fpart/1/vc/1

**PeteLeathersac** · #**109** 10-30-2008, 04:02 AM

This thread keeps getting better & better!.

So it looks like Tom must've made a deal to get his original engine back and swapped the heads back on..
Wonder what happened to the L88?.
Interesting how he wasn't aware it was a 9737 until he got the car back!.

Futher to the '68 Yenko converted cars, is it know how many were RS cars?.
How many known existing '68 Yenko cars are RS cars?.
And is it know if any of the nonconverted '68 9737's were RS cars?.

Interesting stuff!

~ Pete

**enio45** · #**110** 10-30-2008, 08:18 AM

I think the link above tells the story on Toms car, engine and discovery of its origan. Being from Aliquippa, PA myself, althought a bit younger than Tom, Bobby Williams was the person who bought the L78 motor out of Toms car. All of us that know Bobby, he has virtually every motor he ever got his hands on still today. He had a performance shop near J&L Steel downtown Aliquippa. Bobby is still around if someone needs to verify the info.

Tom had Ed Cunneen do some background leg work for the then "COPO Certification" on his Bronze car and my Ralley Green car and found that Toms was dealer transferred from Yenko to Kenny Ross. My car was sold at Yenko Chev and documented thru the original owner (still alive) and also verified with the subsequent owners (all from Coraopolis, PA)as well and as stated in the MCR article March 07.

Related to one of the above questions - "im told" that there are possible 6 non coverted cars - due to the fact that a quality of 70, 68 yenko camaros were to be produced for the year. However 64 were converted and the remaining were sold as L78 cars. Joe Barr has some info that refers to these non-converted cars in an ad back in the late 68 season.

My car body number is 3 digits away from the recent ebay bronze yenko from Tenn and as you would expect, same build week of 07E. Kind of supports that these cars were made in certain batches.

I was told that of the remaining 6 non-converted cars, there were 1 ralley green and 5 corvette bronze. Dont know if any were RS and if the above is true?? Of the 6, two are known to exist, both non RS cars.

As you can expect, i look everyday for the other 4 - not knowing where they can show up, if at all.

Hope this helps some understanding.

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