67 (YENKO) baldwin motion identification question

[Belair62]

Who is the old mechanic with paperwork ?

[Charley Lillard]

I think he is talking about Warren. I would make Friends with Warren and get those papers bought..

[berger]

yes,i not sure of his last name, but I know of other guys who got their workorders from him , the orders even tell you if yenko or harrell assembled the conversion, pretty cool.

[Belair62]

Well good luck on getting this car doc'd and done....I don't know jack about this stuff and I'm kind of surprised we haven't heard anything from the likes of SYC or BKH to grill you a little bit about it. Hell usually when a car comes on this site it catches some big scrutiny by some very knowledgeable people...that must be a good sign !!!

[T Billigen]

You Can say that again!!!!

[hvychev]

Yeah come on you sleeping giants!! I want to see someone else get into some sort of controversy for a change!

I hear that Marlin has been to busy getting his hair done and his nails painted to post anymore and that Motown is in a nut house somewhere in Michigan!

[sYc]

Hey, I am just sitting back and watching, as it looks like Berger is getting plenty of valuable information from other sources. In fact, I have already learned a few things.

I did not know that Chevy built COPO Camaros in '67, especially a run of 427s. That the list of 107 Yenko VINs was for NHRA use, and might contain VINs of straight six cars, which Harrell may have converted.

My only question is, what happens if another car shows up with the missing VIN and trim tag. Who owns what?

[bkhpah]

I have answered all of Bergers questions. He has PM'd me a few times. By the way, weren't you tired of "Diamond Certified" judges answering questions not that long ago. I am one of those judges...BKH

[Charley Lillard]

"My only question is, what happens if another car shows up with the missing VIN and trim tag. Who owns what?"...Good question. So what is the Heart and Soul of the car, the Body or the Trim Tag and vin plate ? I'm thinkin the the Guy with the vin plate has a legal problem since it does not belong on the car it is on.

[JoeC]

Matt seems to be getting a lot of mixed info from different people. I did tell him I was researching a possibility of a COPO for 1967 Camaro but I never said it was for a 427. In my research I found that
On Sep 15, 1966 Don Yenko applied to Chevy for 3 COPOs. One for a different dash for the 67 Stinger, one for a 67 Nova for SCCA A/sedan class and one for a Camaro. It is not clear what Chevy allowed him to order. I also found strange info on four 67 Yenko Camaro trim tags. I told Matt that I don’t think that there were 107 Yenko Camaros built in 1967. There are a few reasons for this. One is that some of the YS#730-YS#740 cars were delivered in Sep of 67 when 1968 cars were already coming out. It does not seem likely that over 50 cars could be built and delivered that late in the year to get from approx YS#760 to YS#7107. There were some YS#6xx numbered cars but there would have to be over 50 of them, which seems unlikely. Yenko had to off load some cars to Harrell’s shop just to keep up with the YS#7xx cars. I have been surprised by some of the new info I found but I have not been able make any conclusions so all this is “just my opinion”. As I said before, I am interested in talking with anyone who is researching the 67 and 68 Yenko Camaros as I believe that more can be discovered if all the info can be pooled.