Original owner picture 67 Yenko/Harrell Camaro

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I think it would be almost impossible to find a JD Yenko with Yenko stripes since there are probably only 10 found and none have original paint. Both theese pictures the cars already had a paint job and what body shop would have known where to get a stripe kit back then since they were not reproduced like they are today.. My first Yenko was A Cannsburg Yenko sold at Jack Douglass and was repainted in 1973 at that time the stripes had to be painted on since no one knew where to get a stripe kit back then in the Chicago area.

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Folks were able to obtain yenko stripe kits quite easily, and well into the '80's. They were a standard catalog item.

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With the Yenko emblems originally placed up in the middle of the fender by JD, wouldn't that interfere with where the Yenko stripes would go? Maybe original Yenko emblem placement is an indicator of if the cars were originally striped or not.

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I have seen an original Paint Berger X11 Double COPO with the D90 Stripe. We can also ask Kevin DeWitte as the original owner of his Berger X11 Double Copo with D90 stripes, how his car was equipped when new.

I hear that his COPO has survived the years much better than he has, but maybe his Nurse can help him type a response

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I just posted these today....and the article has some original pics!

Click Here, for Kevin's Berger COPO

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"Actually I was never happy with the stripes on the car when it was new. It
was very evident the stripes started out as regular D90 stripes with a gap
in the front end of them where the numerals for the engine would go.
Somewhere along the assembly process, this gap was painted black and you
could see where the factory used some kind of a template to spray that open
area black. On one fender it matched perfectly, the other side their
stripes were all off a little. You could also see the overlap of paint on
the top and bottom of the gap where the new paint was painted over the
existing stripe.
My eyes were great back then, remember it well.
The car has been repainted, and I'm debating when I redo it to reproduce
the painted gap. I'm sure that would start a huge question by many on why
my front fender stripes look so weird.
I'm actually going to let my nurse make the final decision because she is
only 29 and had much better eyes than I do!!"





Kevin DeWitte's Nurse