Fathers Lost Yenko Chevelle #358034 Butternut

[PeteLeathersac]

I Googled the VIN and saw that Facebook posting last night too but figured the OP here was the same person/family? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
Cool if it's a found and known existing car as Marlin noted also hope all works out Ok for everyone!
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete

[Kurt S]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scuncio</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There was a yellow Yenko Chevelle located in the Belleville area around 10 years ago. I don't have any details on the car but I believe the story was posted here on this site.
Never mind, that car was 357655. </div></div>
I wonder if that car was owned by the brother of a guy in the Ford Ypsi plant toolroom.
I clearly recall him telling me about his brother bringing the car (yellow 69 Yenko Chevelle) up from down south and he showed me a pic - I can't remember if it was of his brother's car or one like it.
Do you have a link to that other thread?

[tom999q]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I Googled the VIN and saw that Facebook posting last night too but figured the OP here was the same person/family? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
Cool if it's a found and known existing car as Marlin noted also hope all works out Ok for everyone!
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete </div></div>

Sounds like a brewing family feud. Two not-to-friendly relatives knew about the car over the years but didn't care about it. Then on 7/7/14 someone told them it was a Yenko. Now they're both trying to beat each other to the car in the hopes of big financial gains.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[John]

.... Did this Yellow 1969 Yenko Chevelle .... have a &quot;Black vinyl top&quot; ? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[mssl72]

What happened to the popcorn eating smiley?? I need it now.

[tom999q]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mssl72</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What happened to the popcorn eating smiley?? I need it now. </div></div>


Hahaha, that's funny [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

[Cworkman2]

Jerry Strong was a friend of my fathers and actually is the one who told be about the car being a Yenko. He actually was the person who pointed me to this group to inquire. Sorry about the lapse in communication, my job requires me to be out of cell service for days at a time due to the fact that I work remotely. I am currently in the process of scanning photos and other documents to post.

[Cworkman2]

Actually I've been looking for this car since I've been 9...I'm 39 now. A little back story to clear things up. I am an only child and my father, Carl, the owner of the car, died when I was 6 months old. Due to my mothers health issues she and I were residing with my grandparents in Michigan while my father was stationed at Fort Carson. After his death there was some issue with getting the car back to Michigan, I have the correspondence between the Army and my mother which mentions the car but it is never listed with his effects. There are conflicting arguments on either side in the paperwork.
In my searching I thought it was just another chevelle produced at the time, it wasnt until Jerry Strong contacted me on Facebook and wished to tell me about stories about my father and the car did I find out it's unique origin. Which makes it easier to track. Thus, contacting this group to see if it is still out there. I dont have much in regards of knowing my father, and I could care less about financial gain, but I would like to know if the car is still out there, if it's in a collection and if the owner would be willing to talk to me. If the car has been destroyed, well I will have to accept that this search is over. My fathers mother and brother both passed before I got to know them..my mother was not one to associate with them after his death, so this is sort of a extremely personal journey. It's funny, but since finding out about this car and being contacted by his friends I have learned so much about him and his exploits. I was told that he changed the side emblems on the car to 350 ones so that it looked like a sleeper, but would blast any car down the strip at the time. Thats what I want to know about...I would just like to be able to touch a piece of his history outside of the stories.

[Cworkman2]

Please excuse the watermark on the photos, using an old scanner and software.

These are pictures of my mother and fath...identification

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Here ya go.