Original owner picture 67 Yenko/Harrell Camaro

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-------Hmmmm!!! That would mean that it would have been repaired and painted twice in about 8 to 10 years. While possible I wouldnt think that would be likely. Does anyone know how many yellow douglass COPO cars were delivered??? How about how many are still around???........Bill S

[William]

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-------Hmmmm!!! That would mean that it would have been repaired and painted twice in about 8 to 10 years. While possible I wouldnt think that would be likely. Does anyone know how many yellow douglass COPO cars were delivered??? How about how many are still around???........Bill S

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ZL1 #4 shares space with a Daytona Yellow Douglass Yenko Camaro. It is a Canonsburg car and is loaded: automatic, special front bumper, vinyl top, power steering, console, radio, style trim and special interior group. It has to be one of if not the highest optioned Yenkos.

It may well be the car in the famous photo of Yenkos' lot circa 1969.

[camarojoe]

What is the date on that photo Chris? Did the car in the pic sell new from Douglass with the hockey stripes? Did that car have any Yenko badges? I don't see any on the fenders, but maybe the rear tailpanel? How many yellow COPOs did Jack Douglass sell? (oops, I see Bill already asked the same question!)

[sixtiesmuscle]

It was my understanding that the car you refer to was not a Canonsburg delivered car, and, is not on the Yenko sheets. Has information emerged that changes that? Great car in any event. Just curious if it is a Douglass Yenko, or, a Yenko that was shipped to Douglass from Yenko.

[shor]

Joe, the pictures are dated 1972.
The car in that polaroid had those "hockey stripe" stripes.
I dont think they are factory, though for a couple of reasons
I have spoken to three original owners of Jack Douglass Yenkos.
Here is what I know from first hand accounts.
1)Nick M. says that when he bought his/my Yenko chevelle that day, there were also 2 yellow Yenko 427 Camaros on the lot.
Both Camaros did NOT have Yenko stripes.
He is positive.
They did have Yenko emblems and Yenko window stickers. though.
2)Nicks friend bought one of them that day. That is the car that Richard M. now owns and it is currently sporting Yenko stripes which is incorrect for that car.(to each his own).
3)Dwayne Tomley, (the one in those polaroids) took delivery of his JD Yenko Camaro brand new in the summer of 69. It had those funky hockey stripes and a rear Yenko crest. It did NOT have syc on the headrests though.

My car is an 05D car and Dwayne bought his in the summer of 69 and Nick and his friend bought them in 11/69.
My camaro could be the one dwayne bought, or it could be the one nick saw(and test drove)or it could be another one. I have no idea at this point.

My Vin is one digit away from Richard M. car so I "think" that they may have been the 2 yellow ones on the lot that day on 11/69....i just don't know.(dwayne does not have any paperwork, so he does not know his vin.

I decided to restore my car as it came from the factory, with its x11 pin stripe. I like the clean look better and I have always liked ZL1 number 3, so that is why I did that.
A couple of chitown members swear my car came with the Yenko stripes, Mike G included, but for now, my decals just sit in the trunk, as I like the cleaner look better.
Interestingly enough, on the repair order from 89 (see last attachment) one of the quote lines reads"remove and re-apply decals)....maybe bruce can grap it off of my post, and recrop it correctly.
I will say that Mike G. and John. P, are really the resident experts on all things Jack Douglass.
and respect anything they might want to add.

[camarojoe]

So i take it that it's not known how many yellow COPO camaro's came out of Jack Douglass? If so I think it would make it easier to figure out what's what.

[shor]

I think JD took direct GM delivery of 4 yellows.

Mike, my vin ends in 313, what is yours?

[camarojoe]

I'm not certain, but I don't think you could get a D90 hockey stripe on an X11 car, as the X11 already got the pinstripes as part of the trim package, and they wouldn't put both stripe options on the same car...not sure if you could have deleted the pinstripes and ordered the D90 stripes instead. I want to say you couldn't, but I'm not certain. I do think you could get them as an option on any base model car though, as in an X44, COPO or otherwise.

The yellow car in the '72 pics looks to be an X11 car, yet i don't see pinstripes... so maybe you COULD delete them and order the D90 hockey sticks...maybe the whole car was repainted by 72..I doubt that, but heck if I know...I wasn't born til '75.

[sixtiesmuscle]

Thanks for the compliment Chris, but, I make no such claim. I do know Jack Douglass very well, and, actually went to the dealership in '69 when the cars were there for sale. I have had many in depth conversations with Jack about what went on at the dealership during the heyday of high performance. I have related most of those facts in the past years, so, I don't see how rehashing it all will be a benefit. Most of what we discuss regarding these cars includes a lot of "I thinks", and, "maybes". I don't think that will ever change. Although I'm not at home, and, don't have my VIN or title search info with me, I do know that my car was in the western & southwestern suburbs of Chicago until it was sent to Wisconsin in, I believe, the late 70s. The first wisconsin title lists the word Yenko in the model box, and, it had Yenko stripes over original paint according to the first Wisconsin owner. Who put them on & when, I don't know. Maybe Bill can remember the name of the guy who supposedly was converting all the old Douglass COPOs to Yenkos in the 80s, and, we can try to find him. With Bill's memory for dates, people's names & cars, that shouldn't be too hard. One thing that seems to be fairly consistent is that stripes or not, the people buying the cars thought they were buying Yenko Camaros. The stripes were an extra cost option [approx. $400] so, some people opted for them, and, some did not. My recollection is that there were both D90 striped, AND, Yenko striped cars available for sale. Take your pick. Just pay 400 more for a car with exactly the same equipment except for different stripes. $400 was a lot of money, so, it stands to reason that not everyone would go for the full Yenko stripe package since it didn't make it any faster. Some guys were into go & some were more into show. Same as today. I think maybe.

[Xplantdad]

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....maybe bruce can grap it off of my post, and recrop it correctly.


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Here you go Chris...