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Old 01-21-2018, 12:38 PM
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Could this be his car?.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=146583
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Old 01-21-2018, 12:40 PM
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Both cars in the same state!
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Old 01-21-2018, 02:00 PM
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Both Blue both White interior both Ohio area? Strong possibilty.
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Old 01-21-2018, 09:40 PM
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Mine was black standard interior, but it could have been changed. Only way to know for sure is to look at the VIN on the dash and the hidden VIN. Mine was 124379N663539.

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Old 01-21-2018, 10:13 PM
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Black interior throws my suspect detective skills out the window. I would doubt that interior has been touched but you never know. There are a couple of 1st gen. Camaro's in a similar state of disenigration close to me. It's amazing the difference of what happens to a car in a field and one in a garage.
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Old 01-22-2018, 03:03 AM
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After looking at those pictures for a long time, that could be the my old car. The fuel pressure regulator is where we use to put them (although so did a lot of other people put them in that location at that time). The one thing that really intrigues me is that I had heard that all the Yenko badging and stripes had been removed and the car was painted green, but I never saw it, so who is to say, but that car sure looks green below the stripes, of course, it could be green mold.

If I can get a location, I will definitely go look at this car.

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Anyway for someone to get the VIN?
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Old 01-25-2018, 07:55 PM
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Well, I guess the saga will continue. I just returned from south eastern Ohio and the car that Whitetop took pictures of in the thread, "Where COPO's go to die", is not my car. The VIN is not on Yenko registry and appears to me to have been a manual shift car with a twelve bolt, 120 MPH speedo and no factory tachometer. The interesting thing was that it did only have 17000+ miles, so it must have been a racecar for a long time. After checking the VIN, the air went out of the balloon rather quickly, so my buddy and I did not spend a lot of time there, nor did I take a lot of pictures.

The good thing is that you never know what you will find and it was a great adventure while it lasted.

Thanks to Whitetop and Chevyman0429 for trying to help. Maybe better luck next time.

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Old 01-25-2018, 08:44 PM
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Well that’s a bummer! Well maybe it’s out there still and hopefully being better cared for.
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My wife, who is a really good organizer, decided it was time to go through a ton of photos, National Dragster articles, and anything else that had to do with my racing career. One of the photos that we came across was a May of 1972 photo of my original Yenko leaving the starting line at Quaker City, in Salem, Ohio. This picture shows smoke coming off the slicks, so I would guess it was not a good pass, no rev limiters back then (just your right foot). Looks like a 10.90 on the windshield which was probably the NHRA record, which would have been the dial-in back then. The big 23 on the side glass was probably when I came through the gate.

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