Yenko Drag Camaro, Canada?

MotownMadman · #1 02-11-2004, 10:04 AM

I ran across this post on a "My First Car Page", anybody have any idea who this is? Motown

My first car, which i still own to this day was a brand new 1969 Yenko Camaro. It had a 427, 4 speed, and buckets, i upgraded everything on that from headers, to camshaft. It was factory rated at around 450 hp, but with my mods i expect it to pump about 540 hp. Now it is only a strip car that will run low 9's (9.32) in full nitrous. Its a metallic silver, with a blue interior, I would sell my first born for another of these carS!!!!!!!!!
Bob <[email protected]>
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada - Content-type: text/plain Sat Apr 24 02:51:52 EDT 1999

**69clone** · #2 02-11-2004, 01:47 PM

Motown - I am from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and have a 69 Yenko Clone. As far as I know there is no other Yenko cars, real or imagined, in Saskatoon. I had a guy approach me at a local cruise night this past summer with a tale that he had an original 69 Yenko Nova but was unable to verify his story as he lived about 2 hours away and was not willing to allow me to pursue the documentation and purchase of said vehicle. After numerous phone calls he advised me that he was selling it to a buddy for $8,000.00 (that would be about $1.25US for those interested). I have been to every car show in this area and attend the local dragstrip and have never seen or heard of any other Yenko's in this area.

Rob

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #3 02-11-2004, 02:12 PM

There is a Yenko Camaro in Canada, pro-street drag car, black exterior, 468, th400, 9".

This car was originally intended to be sold new at Marshall Chev. in PA, but appears to have been sent back to Yenko, and then sold to someone in OH. The car came back into PA around 1994-6, as a pro-street car via a used car auction in OH. It was sold from the used car lot to a local in Pittsburgh. The car was sold to a machine shop owner in New York approx. 2001, about a year later it was sold to someone in Canada but not sure where. This car was originally a daytona yellow, 4speed car.

**MrMotion** · #4 02-11-2004, 02:21 PM

Brand New dealer ordered Yenko, Motion,or Harrell... bought in Canada....Never Happened.

**Zedder** · #5 02-11-2004, 02:38 PM

I have no idea about this particular car, but a Hamilton dealer (Maurice Carter) ran an ad in '67 saying something like "Come see the Yenko Stormer Z-28". I don't know anything more about the car etc., but the ad would lead one to believe that they actually had a car on their lot???

**MrMotion** · #6 02-11-2004, 03:50 PM

Dealer would have had to import a car that was already in Yenkos inventory as finished in 1967? Most baby boomers in Canada were how old? Never happened in Canada,... Panthers Yes.

berger · #7 02-12-2004, 12:34 AM

how about a 10 car trade from gorries to yenko all black panthers including a z28 panther shipped straight cross over to london central chevy also in ontario, maybe ys#s 714-724? 54 yenkos + 11 gorries trades =65 shipped!!!

camarojoe · #8 02-12-2004, 01:03 AM

Don't know about Yenko Camaros or Chevelles, but if this ad is accurate, there was a Canadian dealer selling Yenko Stingers in 67.

GMH454 · #9 02-12-2004, 01:14 AM

Marlin that sounds like a car from "CARS" magazine around 1986. Car was Yellow and supposed to be a real Yenko. Sounded pretty zany , but if thats it, guess it was real.
Was a good article any way, not many Yenko articles back then.

**MrMotion** · #10 02-12-2004, 01:19 AM

The Stinger, maybe because there was a Home that I was working on in 1980 in Toronto, that the owner had a Corvair with the chev small block behind the driver and may have been a Yenko Stinger but was not street licenced. A Yenko Camaro imported as a new sale to a customer for street use, if it existes there will be GM Documents to verify but I don't believe in 1967 here in Canada they would have gone to that much trouble. For street use anyway.