Supercar Photographs

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I found that car in Feb of 2001 in downtown Pittsburgh. Need to dig out my notes...

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At one point in time I had pictures of the trim tag and some of the original paperwork for that car. I don't have my handwritten notes from when I saw the car since I have since added them to my spread sheet. I may have transposed or miss read a number at some point. I still have the auction add for this car and it was advertised as a Marshall sold car and there was a picture of the paperwork to back that up. It was also advertised as having a restamped block, but the original transmission and rearend. The picture is from Mecum Indy in 2008 and it was advertised as having an older restoration and having been freshened up by Camaro Specialties. Let me know what you find in your notes, or what you don't agree with. I am pretty sure that this car was later brokered by Nickey and there were a bunch of photos on their website of it. This is a 4 speed car and it had the dealer installed headers.

[mrays]

#112. This Yenko Chevelle was sold new by V.V. Cooke in Louisville KY. This is a 4 speed car with bucket seats and no console and is documented with an original build sheet. It was featured in the February 1993 issues of Popular Hot Rodding and Muscle Car Review when it was owned by Randy Miller. It was part of Dave Christenholz's collection and is now in the Brothers Collection.

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She a real Beauty - one of my favorite Yenko's at Christenholz's 10 years ago [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Original paperwork would be interesting, as I have my doubts that Marshall actually sold the car - I know the inventory sheet says Marshall but I believe that car was sent back to Yenko and was sold into OH. It eventually came back to PA in '98 or '99 via a used car dealer (Rossi Motors?) - essentially as a pro street car that was tubbed, tied, and caged with a 468, a TH400, and a 9&quot; with 4.86's. Car had a Harwood carbon fiber hood, race buckets and was for sale. I passed but a machinist in NY went to Pittsburgh and bought it. He eventually decided it was not what he wanted and he sold it - reportedly to someone in Canada. I lost track of it and never realized that it had reemerged!

[mrays]

Stefano had this car advertised in the for sale section of this site in July of 2008 and there he said it had a lot of original paperwork and was sold by Yenko. I don't know how to link that, but he only had pictures of the car and the engine compartment. There were a bunch of pictures on the old Nickey site but they are no longer there. I did find my notes from when it was on the Nickey site and I wrote down the trim tag information. What I have is NOR219759, 711 76 76, 03B X44. It also said the original owner was known and that Bob Harris at Camaro Specialties had the car at some point. I'm not sure if he restored it, or just freshened it up later.

[mrays]

#113. This Yenko Nova is W467756 and was sold new at Yenko. I believe this car was formerly owned by Randy Miller and Dan Cupido. There are photos of it in the February 1993 issues of Popular Hot Rodding and Muscle Car Review when Randy Miller owned it along with his Garnet Red Yenko Chevelle from above and Daytona Yellow Yenko Camaro. It was also featured in Bob McClurg's Yenko book when Dan Cupido owned it. Cliff Ernst used to have an identical car to this as well. I'm not sure if he still owns his or not.

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Dan's Yenko Nova spent a fair amount of time in Western Maryland when new and then migrated to Eastern Maryland before coming back to PA before being discovered. It was great to see this car racing at one of the SCR's!

Yes, Cliff still has his FG Yenko Nova.

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Dug up my notes on this '69 Yenko Nova. Car was 'found' in 1986 by a guy in St Paul, MN (not Vince E.), who tracked it down because he knew it was a Yenko. The car was in Beaverdale, PA at that time and was painted maroon,owner was Richard S (1981-1986 est) who bought it from his friend John M for $1,000. John M bought from ? for $100 somewhere around '75 est.

We estimate that the car had come into PA sometime between '74 and '75, but since the car was found we didn't really do a lot of digging with the PA DMV. The car appears to have spent its early life in MD, beginning in Cumberland, MD in '72 and then migrated all the way to eastern MD - Elkton in Cecil County to be exact - in '73 to a guy named Freddie (who might have been a car dealer), before it ended up in PA. Somewhere along the way I think it got an R title in MD (not in PA), but I can't find those notes.

PS: just found my additional notes, I hadn't filed them yet. Here's the general ownership history as I've researched:

5/27/70 - Charles K in Lavale, MD, could have been the orig owner, he financed $1,927.
8/12/71 - Walter H in Cumberland, MD, pays $2,250 but finances $3,119 (must have rolled in another loan).
8/04/72 - James S in Cumberland, MD, pays ?
11/26/73 - Freddie F in Elkton, MD, pays $1,200
4/01/74 - title is reassigned by Freddie, typically only done by dealers. This is also the same date that Freddie files a formal 'Request to Waive Inspection Prior to Re-Building a Motor Vehicle'. So, one could speculate that Freddie is a used car dealer who bought a wreck, theft or flood vehicle from western MD and rebuilt it for resale at his place in eastern MD. Car then goes to PA.
10/17/75 - John M in PA
1981 - 1986 Richard S in Beaverdale, PA
1986 - went to MN, and eventually to Mike Miller in NC then to Danny in Canada.

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Marlin -- are you sure that in a prior life you may have been Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau? LOL