67 yenko emblem placement?

[hvychev]

Kid, The supercar kid. Man Rick are you awake when you read these posts? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I was refering to the fact that he knows his stuff.

[bkhpah]

Don't forget that many local owners did not even care for the Yenko image. Many did not want any extra emblems or stripes adorning their new ride. After all Yenko was not a big deal then. Some guys tore the stripes and emblems off the cars the first time Yenko would not stand behind a drag racing claim. Or the fact that the Yenko Deuces were not being classified into the right classes as promised at the local tracks....BKH

[Chevy454]

BKH:

Have you ever heard WHY the Deuces never got classified? Everything else got classified, and the Deuces were a pretty straight forward deal, and we have proof they did all the paperwork...any ideas?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I have been researching that angle of the Deuce history for several years, no concrete answer yet but several theories. I know that Don visited Josh Darden at Colonial and suggested that they put a Deuce on the local track to promote the sale of their remaining Deuces. They did exactly that, and could not get classified and had to run in MP class! I talked to the guy who actually ran the Deuce, and he remembers the whole situation quite well. He said that they never tried to run the car as an official entry in the Stock classes, it was soley for advertising. He added plenty more details, but suffice to say it was an interesting deal! Yenko supplied a specific request to the NHRA regarding the Colonial situation, stating that they 'are forced to MP, so when will the Deuce be classified'. So, the Colonial effort may have been twisted a little by Yenko (imagine that!) to pressure the NHRA into classifying the Deuce. In other documents, Yenko clearly bent the truth by stating that he had sold over 500 Deuces, interesting! I think the NHRA had caught on by then, and were just ignoring Don.

The AHRA sanctioned the Deuce, but it is unclear that the class was consistent. In the Gilchrist photos it clearly shows E3A as the class, this correlates to Formula Stock, E category (8.50-8.99 lbs/CI) with 2 barrel carb and an a/t. This of course does not fit with the LT1 engine in the Deuce which obviously has a 4 barrel carb. However, that may have been the classification for that day - at that track. The NAAR also sanctioned the Deuce, and also put it in E/Stock.

[JoeC]

Yenko tried to get the 67 and 68 Yenko Camaros approved for NHRA Super Stock but was knocked down because they were not considered as factory built.
I believe he exaggerated his production figures on these two cars in his letters to NHRA. NHRA was pretty strict because if one of the auto mfgs (Chevy Ford Chrysler AMC) got something approved the others were very quick to investigate and protest the legality of the car. Bill Jenkins showed up with a ZL1 engine in late 68 in his 69 Camaro and was not allowed to run the car. He could not at that time prove that 50 ZL1s were built (they weren't yet)
With the Deuce, there should have not been a problem with Chevy giving the info to NHRA. There would have had to be a competitor that tried to run a LT1 Nova and went through the process with NHRA. The only reason I could think of why it may not have happened is because Chevy may have discouraged people from running the Nova and encouraged running the 70 Z28/LT1. Chevy liked to get the new models out on the track for marketing reasons. just a theory
I also wonder if the 69 Camaro 427 425hp was legal in the Stock class where they would need a 500 production min.

[berger]

I just got a 67 's vin verifyed by the registry, but its got some fill in the fenders emblems holes and the rear RS backup lights, they look like they never were there, very clean job, car is spotless and has no bondo, what type of orders do you have

[sYc]

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Yenko tried to get the 67 and 68 Yenko Camaros approved for NHRA Super Stock but was knocked down because they were not considered as factory built.
I believe he exaggerated his production figures on these two cars in his letters to NHRA.

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Joe, I am assuming you have this document, or at least have seen, this "letter to NHRA" from Yenko. I for one would love to see it, or at least hear more about what is contained in it.