1970 Yenko Deuce

[Stuart Adams]

Marlin, how many unrestored cars are there, it seems to me that this car might be a better investment if left alone and just cleaned up. If you restore it, that puts it into the restored pool of cars instead of the probably few unrestored. Your thoughts? You are the man with these cars.

An unrestored car appeals to both unrestored people and people looking to restore one.

[Belair62]

Investment ? Buy that sucker and beat the crap out of it and if it's holds it's value or increases in value it's icing on the cake !

[Stuart Adams]

Yeah and investment in tires and gasoline...LOL.

[Belair62]

zacly

[Xplantdad]

Hey Gags...when is yours going to be done?

[Steve Shauger]

Did you look at the car...it is NOT an unmolested survivor car from what pics I have see. Low mileage,orig owner yes.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Yenko Deuce Registry Stats:

Cars Found: 86 -> 4speeds=64 & a/t's=21
Cars Totalled: 11 -> 4speeds= 8 & a/t's= 3
Cars Remaining: 79 -> 4speeds=50 & a/t's=29

Cars in original condition: 42 -> 4speeds=32 & a/t's=10
Cars w/ original owners: 11 -> 4speeds= 7 & a/t's= 3
Cars w/ original drivetrains:28 -> 4speeds=21 & a/t's= 7

[Stuart Adams]

Wow, alot more original drivetrain cars than I thought. $110K is a good number IMO.

No I have not seen the car. Just a generalization and finding out how many cars are out there.

[Roof]

Okay Guys, I know I'm a lady and a bit sensitive but I feel like we're really getting beat up here. Greed?? Gravy?? Did we do something wrong? We're only honest hard working people with a car for sale. Can you blame us for wanting to find a fair price? If it were your car would you just give it away to the first good offer. We aren't saying these offers have not been good. We were really shocked at how high they were. But if you were in our shoes and sold this car for $50,000 this week and found someone who would pay $100,000 the next how would you feel? We're not trying to rip anybody off. We were just trying to find out what the car was worth!!!!We're not crooks as some of you have been implying. It's not like we've had this car for sale for a month or more and were holding out for the GRAVY. As for making the offers public I had no idea how much of a stir that would cause. When we get PMs or phone calls from serious buyers we pretty much have to make them aware of our highest offer. Don't you think word would have gotten out that way? What about people who buy at BJ auction, it's not like that's a big secret. I see posts in here saying "I paid" or "so and so paid" so how much of a secret is it really? If I've caused any hard feelings or offended anyone I'm sorry, that was certainly not my intention. To Rick H, we never said the car was original condition, only said we were original owners. And to the person who is questioning our integrity because the paint color was changed, we simply changed it because we wanted to. It's a simple as that. I was 18 years old when we bought this car and Earl was 23. Who can say why we do some of the dumb things we did? I've learned a lot from this experience. I've learned there are some people out there who wouldn't trust anyone and wish to believe the worst about people. I've also learned there are some gems out there, too. People who are willing to stick up for others and believe the best about them, probably because that's what they would want others to do for them. I truly do apologize if we have caused any hard feelings between anybody. Not much more I can say than that. Linda

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The number of deuces with original drivetrains is higher than most people expect, Linda hinted at the reason why. Although numerous letters were written by Don Yenko to the NHRA, the deuce was never officially classified as a stock combination. Don attempted to get the car certified as late as August of '71. Those that wished to race the deuce in NHRA were forced to run in MP. There are reports from owners that they simply parked their deuce after they could not run it, one owner was so perturbed at Don that he took the YENKO off of the q/panels - if he had known that the emblems were sticky's he would have removed them as well.

The deuce was classified by the AHRA as E-stock, and by the NAAR in Oakmont, PA as F-stock.

So, without an official class to run in NHRA, most cars were never raced, therefore, their drivetrains have survived.