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Old 12-20-2009, 08:19 PM
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Default Re: 1967 Yenko Camaros, buyers beware

Though the type written list of 107 1967 VINs, titled “Yenko Super Camaros” , does not give us much insight into which ones were modified, the occupying paperwork used to compile the list does. Several handwritten sheets by Don and Donna Mae, correspondence with Ed Cole and Joe Pike at GM, Wally Parks at NHRA, Howard Sober, Inc., (transport), status sheets (with notes) from the Norwood plant and GMAC, original Yenko Chevrolet press releases, and Yenko’s own commission sheets, make it much more clear when Yenko did what, and to which cars.

As of now, with the information we have now, I would say there were at least 70 1967 427 Yenkos.

As always, the numbers could change, as more information and cars surface. Example, this week I located information on about 20 1967 Yenko Camaros that I had not seen before, and just recently learned of a couple of newly discovered 427/450HP cars, a couple of 427/410HP cars, and a small block unconverted car.

As I said before, nothing I have in my paperwork, or have seen elsewhere, indicates that Yenko was transplanting 427s into Camaros, until the Spring of 1967. Correspondence with Ed Cole, Don’s go to guy at GM, indicates that in the Fall of 1966, Don was concentrating on the 1967 Yenko Stinger project (a possible COPO), and for the Camaro and Chevy II, modifying their suspensions for SCCA racing. Don writes”….similar to the manner which Carrol Shelby offers the fully prepared Mustang for sedan racing…”
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