Vettefest

[Belair62]

I stopped by during set-up....saw a few Supercar guys and cars...This was a nice yellow car but I had a hard time seeing who owned it......

[Belair62]

Until I got closer.........

[Belair62]

Here is one hell of a restoration....I hope you guys don't mind me posting these without your permission...lots of S/C's there folks...

[Belair62]

another

[Charley Lillard]

Just remember...Paybacks a Bitch.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

[Belair62]

Frank Payne told me he would drag you around if you messed with my car !! Where the heck did you disappear to ???

[Belair62]

Skid Row....

[LVCamaro]

WOW!! Cool shots, Bob...wish I coulda made that show!! WOW!

SS
[especially neat dash plaque on the daytona ZL1]

[Belair62]

My batteries ran out...I could have taken a ton more...never seen that many in one place !!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Charley.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/CharleySucks.gif

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final car

[Belair62]

Wish I could have gotten the others...heres the last pic for Mo.......

[JoeC]

Bob thanks for the pictures.....good job on reporting before show even started! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[Jeff Murphy]

Bummer! I should be there with my new ride... Keep the shots coming.

[Charley Lillard]

Lookin Good http://www.members.aol.com/clill8567/belair.jpg

[Charley Lillard]

Great Hangout place... http://www.members.aol.com/clill8567/belaira.jpg

[Belair62]

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gifYou guys are dead meat...Charley and John..since I knew you were going to mess with me....check under your hoods !!And you DAMN well have better not had your shoes on....that ain't no * car boys !!! Have fun....It's about 75 degrees here and I'm sipping an iced tea with just a splash of Belvedere..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Charley.gif

[MosportGreen66]

Just wondering. What is John's last name? He look extremely familiar!

-Dan

[Belair62]

John Rubble...you may have heard of his twin brother Barney. The fingerprint on his right index finger is worn off from touching peoples air cleaner bases. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[Charley Lillard]

"....that ain't no * car boys !!! " It is now..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[Bill Pritchard]

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Just remember...Paybacks a Bitch.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

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You guys are a riot. Glad I got a chance to see Belair's car before Charley and John converted it into a * car.

[Mr Yenko]

A HUGE CONGRADULATIONS to Frank & Caleb Arone for their GOLD SPINNER and taking home TOP GUN!!!!!! And CONGRADULATIONS to Joe Swezey for his GOLD SPINNER for that AWESOME Dick Harrell Camaro,Way to go GUYS!!!!!!!!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif The "MOF"

[Belair62]

What car was it ?

[T Billigen]

Special thanks to Gary Holub and Tom Clary for a great show! Got a chance to meet some of those West Coast guys also! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[T Billigen]

The two Lemans Blue Camaros were beautiful restos! The white interior in The COPO really set it off. Congrats!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[T Billigen]

I also want to mention that I got to meet Don Yenko's daughter, Lynn. "Super Nice Lady". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[Chevy454]

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I wonder if she will autograph my stripes?

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So, did she?

[ORIGLS6]

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What car was it ?

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If I may use your photo...It's the Blue/White Int. COPO.

Those Eastern guys do some fantastic work, don't they? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[sprchvy]

Did everyone get home OK???? About 7:00PM on I55 west I witnessed a near disaster. With a blue early Corvette convertable disabled on the right shoulder with no lights, a later model Corvette tried to pull over for assistance only to find out that you can't stop on Armoralled tires in the rain. 2 complete rotations without hitting anything! WOW. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Aside from the awards noted above, kudos to MR70 for yet another set of Gold Spinner/Top Gun Awards on his spectacular 70 SS396....and he drove it home!

[T Billigen]

Na, I did not get them autographed, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I even forgot to get her to autograph the sign with the car info. Getting old and senile /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif Congrats Rick on the "Top Gun" and the "Gold Spinner" (Well Deserved) I hope you strapped them to bottom of your car to keep the floor pans dry! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[Mr70]

What A great Time & Congrats to you too Ed & Tom,and the others as well.Good People all around,everyone of you. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

I Flew passed a Local Cop doing 15MPH over the local limit.When he pulled me over in the rain,I explained my Hasty situaton,and showed him the Award Plaques to prove my motive for wanting to get the F Home!...He let me go.
Just Finished Wiping off the Car,time for Bed! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[MrsBillyBobcat]

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gifYou guys are dead meat...Charley and John..since I knew you were going to mess with me....check under your hoods !!And you DAMN well have better not had your shoes on....that ain't no * car boys !!! Have fun....It's about 75 degrees here and I'm sipping an iced tea with just a splash of Belvedere.....

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You guys crack me up!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

Thanks for the pictures of the "Vettefest". Sure seemed to be a lot of CAMAROS at a "Corvette" show? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Rita /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

And BTW...It's all your fault that I had a dream last night that I bought another Camaro!

[Belair62]

The black COPO Camaro was absolutely eye popping....beautiful work.

[Steven J]

You guys crack me up!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

Thanks for the pictures of the "Vettefest". Sure seemed to be a lot of CAMAROS at a "Corvette" show? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Rita /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

It's offically known as Chevy-Vettefest. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[fpcopo]

I tried to catch 'em for ya Bobby but that Damn Charley is fast! Either that or I had too many sangwiches. Oh well, I ain't exactly built for speed. I saw him earlier and he said he was going back to the room for his golf shoes. I wonder what he wanted those for?

[Belair62]

He must have finished his Living Will....great to meet you..nice COPO...damn nice.I like black with redlines..nothing looks better. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/CharleySucks.gif

[Charley Lillard]

Hey Slowpoke..Speaking of Redlines. A Friend has a Canadian Copo with redlines on the paperwork. Does your car also have something that pointed to redline tires ? We can all meet later in Belairs car and have a Beer like the other night.

[sixtiesmuscle]

Hey Chuck, I tried the club soda like it said on the Martha Stewart website, but, it just won't get the Ricobene's red sauce out of the seat fabric. Advise what to do next. SSL78

[Belair62]

Punks /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Charley.gif

[sYc]

Just wanted to say that I had a blast at VF. Hope everyone made it home OK. Always fun to spend time with fellow sYc members and their cars. And WOW, what a great gorup of supercars. And to top it off, got to meet for the first time "Mr. Ed" and Lynn Yenko, plus spend time with Tom Stephani and Helen and Nancy Gibb.

[ssl78]

I was hoping he wouldnt notice the red sauce stains, but now that you said something he will probably go look. Sorry Bob, but I think I have a real nice blue back seat out of a Chevelle that would probably fit. There are advantages to driving cars to the show. I was home by 7 putting a band aid on the index finger, I cut it on one of those repop air cleaners. It really was a great show with a lot of great people.

[TimG]

Great show, I had a blast and took my wife's advise/warning and didn't come home with a new car. Pat sent me a super shot of Helen and Nancy Gibb with me in the middle. There was a beautiful yellow ZL1 in the background.

[CamarosRus]

I took many misc pictures on set-up day (Friday) of Vette Fest. I do not know all the names or tech info, but for those who were not there, they may enjoy viewing the following..... Chuck Sharin

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I better give it a rest, unless you members want more?????
Here's last one for this session....regards, Chuck S

[mhassett]

Chuck, Much THANKS for the picture of my MOTION--I think this was the BEST Vette Fest I've been to. Good to see Everyone, lot of laughter!! ALL the Cars were 1st CLASS-Top NOTCH!! Mark /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[sixtiesmuscle]

Did the sign for the green 3500 mile Yenko say it was unrestored ?? Beautiful car, but, I doubt it made that claim.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I thought that green car used to be 'The Gambler'? No?

[sixtiesmuscle]

Think so. I'm just not sure where the "unrestored" statement came from, the owner, or, the photographer. I'm not taking anything away from the car, it's very well done.

[Mr70]

Those are nice pictures Chuck S.
I wish I could have met you Friday.
We were parked in the low ceiling area,South of the Escalators,and not in the main stream of things.
I had heard you were there,and tried to find you.
I wanted you to see my Chevelle,and Talk 70 L-78 Camaros with you.
Never enough time is there...
Rick

[CamarosRus]

Rick, (and all) Next time I better just wear my DUMB name tag, and be more aggressive, about introducing myself. A couple of my 2nd Gen Camaro friends showed up with there cars, and I killed a lot of time discussing things with them. Dont know what happened with that last picture, but I'll attempt to post some more....Please excuse any inaccurate info on the pics......you'll just have to let the pictures speak for themselves...Chuck Sharin

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[Bill Pritchard]

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Did the sign for the green 3500 mile Yenko say it was unrestored ?? Beautiful car, but, I doubt it made that claim.

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I can't remember if the sign said 'unrestored' or not, but the paint job looked too nice to be factory.

[Mr70]

Chuck
Whos 70 Red Chevelle is that?
I don't remember seeing it there?

[70 copo]

Chuck,

Thanks for the post/photo of my car. By the way - Rembrant's got you in the official Vettefest photo of my car taken on friday. Yep, still a good pic.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

Phil

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[T Billigen]

Phil,
Your COPO is a beauty! Love that color! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[DarrenX33]

Rick I believe that was an LS-5 claimed to be unrestored. I think Ed took a better look at it than I did /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif.

[Mr Yenko]

Thanks for the Pics. Chuck,
Some of us had to watch the show from our pc's.But the only problem. You did not seem to take a picture of the TOP GUN WINNER. Would have liked to see a shot of it.Can't miss it Lemans Blue/white int. 69 COPO Camaro.Thanks again,"MOF" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[bkhpah]

The VF show was a great one for sure. Gary H, Mike G, and Tom C, did their best to accomidate all and the special guests were indeed special. My favorite car in the display was that 66 race-prepped Stinger. What an evil car. I really had a good time visiting with board members and enthusiasts alike. Joe and Franks cars were well recieved and I was honored to work on both of those cars. Both of those guys are serious about their cars. Thanks for all the nice comments on the cars. What a special collection it was and in late November as well. Thanks to Chad, Rick, Phil Borris and others for their support as well...BKH /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[shor]

Mayor Potter, here is the <font color="blue">TOP GUN </font>
From what I heard it was a close call between the two blue cars but the Harrell Camaro's tires where not as clean as the Copo's. Great job Caleb!!

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/58927-top%20gun.jpg

[JChlupsa]

Great pics Chuck. How bout this one of one of the board members 66 Vette!!! I want to say the top of the owners head is just above the top of the opened hood, or is it Wilson from Tool Time fame /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/58928-66%20Vette.JPG

[sYc]

BKH has told us what his favorite car on display at VF was. Lets hear yours.

Mine would be the Blue/Yellow Penske race Corvette, with Kevin's a close second. I have a passion for race "Vettes, especially '63-67.

[Belair62]

In my limited time Friday night I have to pick that darn Black COPO Camaro...something about those redlines on black but there were 2 really neat early straight axle Vettes that were tough..looked like Sebring cars ...didn't get to look too long...I was with hungry people..

[redvetracr]

sYc/Jeff, Allow me to (sadly) correct you, the cars in that pic WERE race cars now they are "objects of art" as it`s doubtful NONE of them will ever see competition again.
...redvetracr

[hvychev]

My fav had to be Chad/Rick N 70 Dick Harrell Camaro....can't beat the originals!

Close seconds had to be John Hornbacks beautifully restored Fencl Tufo Forest Green/white stripe Deuce or Gene Englers awesome color combo Cranberry Red/white stripe Fencl Tufo Deuce. Both Day 2 cars! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif BTW for the Deuce lovers out there John Hornback took his Deuce to Byron and ran a 13.09! Good for him! (Marlin you have some catching up to do! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

[matt murphy]

Killer Show ! ! ! !

My favorite . . ., I just can't get into those Corvairs. Cool concept, but not enough cubes for me. I might have to pick one of the three Fathom Green Yankos (Jim Parks was restored with new quarters, low mileage and beautiful none the less) and that Garnet Red '69 Nova was nice, I have to say that the funny car of Tom's was a neat piece to admire, Holubs Hemi motor was nice, but I bet the Grumpy motor might give it a scare /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif Matt Bergers Blue 427 conv. 2002 Hot Rod car was a great combination of color and performance . . . BUT, the best of show for me was Barnhardts Original '69 ZL1 (Porterfields a close second) I love the drag race versions. By the way, I brought a few of my own . . . /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif See ya at the next show . . . /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif Honorable mention goes to Charlies '67 Indy Pace Car, but when I worked at Dan Young Chevy in the early 80's I had it looking very clean, not to say Charlie didn't clean it that well, HAHA, The brakes always worked when I worked on it though . . .

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[copo9566aa]

Thanks for the cool clean and shining pictures. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[shor]

I really liked the 2002 White "Grumpy's Toy" ZL-1.
And it is the last of the run #69 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif
Matt, What is a phase IV engine? and what kind of manifold was on that car? wow!

[Mr Yenko]

Thanks Chris for the picture, Looks like I missed an AWESOME SHOW.Looking foward to York 30 #3.See you guys soon.
The "MOF"

[MosportGreen66]

Thanks for the picture guys! Does anyone have any pictures of the regular cars that were showed at the Vette Fest? I would like to bring my cars down next year but I would like to see some competition. I can pay for a cd, or maybe you guys could post some more pictures here. Thanks. Let me know.

-Dan

[TimG]

There's a great article about the Sebring Corvette in this months Vintage Motorsport magazine.
Hard to pick a favorite car from the show, I'd have better luck coming up with the top five. One thing is for sure, I had never seen a '69 Yenko Nova before.

[JoeC]

Is it one of Yenko's Sebring Corvettes? I will check mag store today.
I have been doing a lot of research on Yenko's Corvettes and it has been fascinating as he had some great ones.
Even turned up some parts to his race cars. They were being sold at Carlisle swap meet. My eyes popped out when I saw them unfortunately I didn't get them all and they are now scattered around who knows where.

[T Billigen]

When I was talking to Lynn Yenko, I asked her what type of car Don used for his daily driver and her comment was strickly Corvettes! He never used one of the Super Cars as a daily driver. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

[JoeC]

Don was definitely a Corvette guy. There are many pictures of him with Corvettes from 1953 and up. He was a founding member of the local Corvette club and was very active. He often wrote articles and printed pictures from the races in the club newsletter. It was a family affair as Frank and Martha (parents) Hope (wife) and the kids went to the local races. Frank Yenko was also active in the club and SCCA and was a well known local race official. One of Don's first race wins was a SCCA sectioned drag race in 1956 in a Corvette - ran 16 sec flat. A Jag was second fastest.

[barker]

I thought it was really cool seeing that many Yenko Deuces sparkling under the lights. My favorite was the Red Yenko Deuce. Coming in a very close 2nd was the Cranberry Red 427 Yenko Nova. You GOTTA LOVE that much power in that car. Naturally, I cannot post a picture of it because it is TOO BIG.

[hvychev]

JoeC I met a fella that bought a car from the dealer that I used to work at and he said that he used to belong to the local Corvette Club with Don Yenko in PA where he lived. He said that it was an exclusive club and most members were very wealthy.

[Belair62]

Frank do you know if Phil Chicarillo was in that club ?

[hvychev]

Bob I was trying for like 10 minutes to remember his name (the guy I was refering to) before I made the original post but couldn't As far as any other members I wouldn't know.

[Charley Lillard]

Belair.. Sorry,I didn't know you were gonna be on Vacation this long. You might wanna check under your seat for the Mcdonalds Fishwich. Should be easy to find.

[Belair62]

I thought you knew I was going to be gone...please send me the shoes back that I forgot at your house.

[matt murphy]

A Phase IV 427 or what we called a SR427. It was our first attempt at building a solid roller 427 race engine. It required a lot of special parts internally and externally. Ext. it required new valve covers which were specially cut out of billet to handle the taller rockers and has ZL1#69 engraved in them, as was the intake that our engine shop and Wilson Manifolds worked together to make this one off custome intake for this motor. $5000 for the intake and $1000 for the valve covers. The custom throttle body hopefully will be here this week so we can test it for the final time. It is making 585HP to the rear wheels with a stock LS1 throttle body, that is just under 700HP to the flywheel. Grumpy himself was involved with this project and said that he was interested in driving the car when it is finished. He signed the car and a contract with GMMG on the car. What a great guy . . . /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

[70 copo]

Does anyone know why James did not make it with the Chevelle?

After seeing the car in the packet that Dennis gave out I was really sorry that he did not come to the show. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

[T Billigen]

I was wondering that myself? I bet you would like to do a little judging on that one Phil! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[70 copo]

Assuming he was coming from Florida, it is a long trip. I understand the majority of his other supercars are stored in Tenn.

Perhaps he had tow vehicle trouble?

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[Fhakya]

The Rims and tires on that Butternut Yenko Chevelle look perfect..great stance.