Yenko Chevrolet records question

[Dawdy]

I am new to the list but not new to enjoying and being involved with Yenko legend and old Corvettes and Corvette race cars. I have a few old photos of the OC cars as well as of Yenko racing what I believe is a 57 Corvette somewhere in the midwest.

I am also interested in Yenko delivery history, i.e., did he sell and prepare cars for customers to race? What if a customer bought a car and then ask the Yenko group to race prepare it, would the Yenko garage do that?

[PeteLeathersac]

Here's the thread w/ the hood, yikes it was '06!
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...rnin#Post202927
No pics but it had #8 on it, who ran this #?

Yenko ran w/ Tony and the O/C Team a few times right, Daytona maybe more?
Was Don always #11 or other #'s too also was the #11 car he ran the subject car?


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~ Pete

[redvetracr]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's the thread w/ the hood, yikes it was '06!
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...rnin#Post202927
No pics but it had #8 on it, who ran this #?

Yenko ran w/ Tony and the O/C Team a few times right, Daytona maybe more?
Was Don always #11 or other #'s too also was the #11 car he ran the subject car?


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~ Pete </div></div>

I can`t see the ebay posting but it was probably Bud Hickey (or someone who did restoration work for him), at one time he owned both the O-C cars Delorenzo &amp; Thompson drove. Bud Lives in Reno.

[markus37]

I think one of the O/C cars belongs to John Thompson in California &amp; another to Harry Yeagy in Cincy.

[redvetracr]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markus37</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I think one of the O/C cars belongs to John Thompson in California &amp; another to Harry Yeagy in Cincy. </div></div>

one of them is going to the RM auction at Monterey..

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCar...amp;CarID=r217

[Austin]

In the spring of 1954 I went to Chevrolet's &quot;Post Graduate School of Modern Merchandising&quot; in Detroit and met Don Yenko,also attending the school.It was also in slang called &quot;The Dealer's Son School&quot;,which, in fact, it really was.He had two tickets for the Indy 500 and we decided to fly there for the race in his Piper PA 14.I suggested we stop by the sports car race at Atterbury AF Base on the way.He agreed it was more interesting than Indy.He attended a couple of races I was in that year,and he was hooked.The rest is history.My dealership,The W.R.Austin Chevrolet Co. in Norwalk,Ct sold a few of his various conversions,along with some of John Fitch's Corvair conversions.
I do not intend to mock the Chevrolet &quot;Post Graduate School of Modern Merchandising&quot;. It was the best six weeks of learning I ever spent.

[mockingbird812]

Welcome aboard Mr. Austin. Interesting information. It sounds like you may have unearthed a racing bug in the young Yenko!

[Austin]

RE W.R. Austin Chevrolet records.Sorry,no records from that interesting era.In fact when I closed out the dealership,I had all records put on two large tapes with what was then a very advanced computer.Not long after there was not a computer that could access the information. A Don Yenko story.Don't recall what year it was,but many years back.Don was thrilled to be asked to be on a Corvette team at Sebring.After agreeing to be on the Corvette team,he was then asked to be on the Ferrari team.With some red face he begged off the Corvette team and signed on with Ferrari.Two weeks before the race he had a fall from his motorcycle and broke a leg.Story as he told it.The Novas created by Yenko were registered as very every day cars and the insurance rate was the &quot;Little Old Lady' cost variety.

[markus37]

I have been working late nights trying to complete my next book.....The Yenko Era....Continued. Canonsburg and Beyond. I have discovered in my documents Donna Mae's original drawing of the red, white &amp; blue Yenko badge wirh letters to suppliers for price quotes. Also history of &quot; Yenko Tuned &quot; decals. Lots of stuff like that in the book.

[PeteLeathersac]

WoW and welcome here!
Being a Yenko network dealer, W.R. Austin delivered cars are part of the discussions here every so often.
Thanks for sharing your story, please tell us more!
Gotta ask, has any W.R. Austin paperwork from the glory years survived?

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~ Pete