GenOne
Reged: 09/08/07
Posts: 315
Loc: Boston MA USA
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I'm looking to reunite the original engine (I have the original block, heads and crank) with the original Chevelle Yenko. I'm not looking to buy the car I'm looking to get the engine back into the original car for a minimal expense to the owner. I have title info thru 74 and Ed C has it listed as a known Yenko in his list of Yenko Chevelles. Please email jconnor@citysports.com or PM if you own or know of the owner -
Thanks in advance - its about time this found it's original home 
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69 Chevelle COPO w/ Canadian docs
68 L-79 Chevelle
69 X33D80 30k Original Paint Survivor
69 X66
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mockingbird812
Reged: 06/04/04
Posts: 5748
Loc: Puh-hone-icks ('Buckeye' born ...
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Concur! Nice gesture.
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Sam
Fire all of yer guns at once and...
explode into space!
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YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY
Reged: 04/27/00
Posts: 10255
Loc: PA
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This engine was on EBaY several years ago, Chuck in CT bought it. It was found in the back of a machine shop after the shop was being closed down. I've done the title work on the car back to 3/13/74 that you referenced, but to my knowledge the car has not been found. I've driven to the last known address for the car, nobody in the general area or town recalls the car.
This car is listed on the inventory sheets as being sold from Marshall Chev. in Reading, PA - but very well might have been a dealer transfer or a typo because I believe it was actually sold from Stauffer Chev. in Scranton, Pa.
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Marlin
70 Yenko Nova-LT1, M21, 4.10's
69 SS Nova-L78, M20, 3.55's
67 RS Camaro-LF7, M35, 3.08's
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GenOne
Reged: 09/08/07
Posts: 315
Loc: Boston MA USA
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The Engine surfaced in a shop clean out around 2000. Jack got the engine from the shop owner who stated the engine was "from a red 69 out of Yenko - a 4 speed with a black top" The shop owner at the time still thought the car was stashed in the Wilkes-Barre PA area supposedly with a 454. I have yet to unearth anything that would lend truth to the car being in that area. The rest of the story was "the red Chevelle" was raced back in the early 70's running the qtr mile at the old Pocono Drag Lodge in Bear Creek PA. Jack put the engine on Ebay in 2003 after 3 years of searching.
Jeff
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69 Chevelle COPO w/ Canadian docs
68 L-79 Chevelle
69 X33D80 30k Original Paint Survivor
69 X66
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YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY
Reged: 04/27/00
Posts: 10255
Loc: PA
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That story sounds about right, it was indeed a garnet red car. It was last registered in '74 in Shenendoah, PA - a very unique little town!
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Marlin
70 Yenko Nova-LT1, M21, 4.10's
69 SS Nova-L78, M20, 3.55's
67 RS Camaro-LF7, M35, 3.08's
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GenOne
Reged: 09/08/07
Posts: 315
Loc: Boston MA USA
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That it is 
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69 Chevelle COPO w/ Canadian docs
68 L-79 Chevelle
69 X33D80 30k Original Paint Survivor
69 X66
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Nova Jed
Reged: 10/08/07
Posts: 1153
Loc: Reading PA
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Ha Shenendoah is somewhat of a ghost town! Been in that area quite a bit. LOL A lot of cars in that area. Stashed away.
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Jed 69,70,70,71 Nova's
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YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY
Reged: 04/27/00
Posts: 10255
Loc: PA
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It's a unique little town in nowhereville, but with a sort of 'transient' population. Turns out there is a large prison closeby, and friends/relatives of the inmates tend to move in/out of the area based on the terms.... Not what I expected from an old mining town!
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Marlin
70 Yenko Nova-LT1, M21, 4.10's
69 SS Nova-L78, M20, 3.55's
67 RS Camaro-LF7, M35, 3.08's
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PeteLeathersac
stranger
Reged: 07/28/05
Posts: 3463
Loc: CANADA ..........................
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Came upon this thread while Googling another subject and thought it deserved a bump..
~ Pete
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I like real cars best...especially the REAL real ones!
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Donutblue
old hand
Reged: 12/29/04
Posts: 1044
Loc: Hudson Valley NY
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This is sort of ironic -- same Town -Shenendoah, PA, however who ever posted the add, even having the car decal "Yenko", they still spelled it wrong -- LOL
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1969-chev...=item1e5973ae6a
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
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