Ed Montini's 1968 non converted 9737 COPO

[Xplantdad]

SYC Members,

I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed over the past 2-3 years to the completion of my 68 Camaro, 9737 COPO, non converted car.

The car hit the front cover of the March - Muscle Car Enthusiast Magazine.

The uniqueness of these special cars is the fact that six of the seventy planned 1968 Yenko Camaro cars never made the conversion, thus these final six were ultimately made available to the public at the end of the 1968 production thru Yenko Chevrolet as special hi-performace cars. We believe the final six non- converted cars were 5 Corvette Bronze and 1 Rallye Green.

The excellent detective work that was done 3-4 years ago by the late Tom Billigan, Joe Barr, Brian Henderson, Chuck Huber and a few others have uncovered another interesting piece of history with Yenko and these supercars.

The article tells the story of the ownership and the race history back in the day.

As with most supercars - painstaking time and effort went into restoring this car back to original condition. Again this could not have been done without the support of the all the car enthusiast and members of sites like SYC, Camaro.Net, Chevelle.Net and Detriot Horsepower.

Thanks again for making it possible.





Thanks,
Ed Montini

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[Xplantdad]

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[mockingbird812]

Spectacular in person. Unbelievable detail. Check out the time slips on this monster http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif . Wonderful automobile Ed. Your car ROCKs!


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[Salvatore]

Great car Ed! Love the extensive drag racing history! The Atco time card that says DX/S was the class I ran with my sb nova. It was a good drag racing era at that time. Love the color too. Sam http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[Shankin]

Very well detailed! The vintage timeslips make it over the top!

[m22mike]

Excellent http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif

Mike

[Zedder]

Very cool Ed! I'm sure Tom is grinning from ear to ear http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[Nova Jed]

Very Awsome color and an Awsome car too!

[jtower1969]

Beautiful car..

[1969l78]

Very nice car

[Ngtflyr]

Ed,
Exceptionally fine car. Congrats!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[enio45]

Thanks everyone for the compliments on the car...it came out exceptional as you can see. I just recieved some additional race pics from the previous owner where the front wheels are off the ground - doing 9.55 at Quaker City!

[Mr70]

Really nice looking car Ed.
Let's see those Quaker City pix! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif

[firstgenaddict]

I love RG cars... and being a 9737 just adds lots o' Icing...

[PeteLeathersac]

I really like RG cars too and since a non converted 9737 keeps the steelies w/ dog caps in place, the resulting combination is truly unique...and deadly!.
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~ Pete
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[JoeC]

It’s a great rare Camaro and I am not saying anything negative about the car but I have to comment on this article.
I believe my information is being miss-represented in this article and magazine cover.
I believe there were more then 6 1968 396 COPO 9737 Camaros sold by Yenko.

I gave Tom B. the information about the six unconverted Yenko COPO 9737 cars.
This was from a small classified ad I found in some Yenko paperwork where the 5 Corvette Bronze and 1 Rally Green 396 car were for sale late in the year.

Hard to get exact numbers on the Yenko car production, but from what I can tell there were about 64 1968 427 cars built and some were not COPO 9737 cars and there were at least 70 COPO 9737 cars ordered (I believe more then 70) so there were probably some 396 COPO 9737 Camaros sold during the year other then the 5 Corvette Bronze and 1 Rally Green cars that were for sale at year end.

There is no way to know how many 396 COPO 9737 Camaros were sold by Yenko.
Most likely more then 6 were sold during the year.

[Xplantdad]

Ed, thanks so much for sharing your wonderful Camaro with us. I can't wait to see it in person soon.

If you ever need help driving it...let me know. I am available http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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[mockingbird812]

[ QUOTE ]
Thanks everyone for the compliments on the car...it came out exceptional as you can see. I just recieved some additional race pics from the previous owner where the front wheels are off the ground - doing 9.55 at Quaker City!

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Holy moly http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif ! <font color="green"> 9.55 </font> ! Quaker City (Salem OH) was just a town over from Canfield where I grew up. What was the mph on that run?

Ed - you need to get this beast out to the SCR! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[JK98SS]

I love that color.

[turbojet427]

Beautiful car and excellent work. Congrats!!

[enio45]

Now we have a trailer locally, i think Pavillions in a few weeks is a good place to start showing it....sam, are up for helping out :-))??

[Dog427435]

Beautiful car - fantastic attention to detail!!

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[mockingbird812]

[ QUOTE ]
Now we have a trailer locally, i think Pavillions in a few weeks is a good place to start showing it....sam, are up for helping out :-))??

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Let me see.... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hmmm.gif your askin' me to help you haul that sweet machine up to Scottsdale on some beautiful spring afternoon sacrificing my time and effort to be close to some extremely rare, beastly, beautiful piece of Yenko history.................









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[x Baldwin Motion]

Awesome!! just freakin' awesome. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif
that green ROCKS !! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif

[scuncio]

Looks great Ed, you ought to be pleased with that kind of coverage!

[enio45]

Tony, Yes I am, and thanks to everyone who helped getting it back to original ..... its been a great project to do.