"The Poor Man's Friend" ?

I definitely get obsessed with Dealer memorabilia and vintage Chevy/Gm stuff.

Whenever my wife wants to go to the second hand bookstore here, I always head over to the old yearbooks and check out the old dealer ads in the back from the 60s era yearbooks. I love those old yearbook adverts.

blow horn to open door

Reading that ad....that kid was not smiling ...I guess he needs viagara....because his name is Ed Limpus. Lol

Lol

His uncle Richard Limpus is definitely not smiling!

Lol. Jim

Nankivell's Indianapolis location was sold into the Hubler conglomerate in the early to mid '70's, the building is still there on Route 31 in what is now technically known as Greenwood, IN. Jim Nankivell was also running an off shore fishing business in Florida.

I believe that Nankivell's Shelbyville location was run by Jim's brother Morgan, and may have been an Oldsmobile dealer early on, but eventually sold Chevrolet's as evidenced by the neon on the ceiling....

I spoke with a gentlemen who belonged to the same Skeet Shooting Club that Jim Nankivell belonged to and he and Jim were friends. He told me that before this Olympic Gold 69 Yenko Camaro sold new Jim used to bring the car out to the club to promote the Yenko brand. That one day at the club he said Jim let him take the car out and go through some gears. A day he said he will never forget. Jim Nankivell was very much a car guy and loved Hi-performance cars he said.

Very cool. Jim sounds like us in Columbus Guns and Gears

....another thing I really enjoy doing!!

Marlin ....we do a lot of clay bird shooting here in Columbus and we also do a lot of pheasant hunting as well.... There is nothing better than the smell of gunpowder and lead unless it is 110 leaded fuel

I love shooting just hate cleaning the guns afterwards..

Rich

Posting for Doug

Posting for Doug

Thanks Matt for posting and your help getting these items. Good addition to the car

Here's a License plate frame I sold a while ago.

ONE OF THE BEST...
IMHO the first 50 Yenko's - X66 Coded are the most desirable of the 69's - they are the only COPO's with black tail pans from the factory plus they all have taillights with trim and quarter gill trim.

Rick Barratt the original owner of Doug's Olympic Gold Yenko Camaro just passed away on Dec 5, 2019. We have been in contact with Rick's family before he passed about acquiring anything related to the car. Rick's daughter claimed that her dad was a pack rat and never threw anything away especially items related to his cars. Once some time passes we will reach out again to see what his family has found.

Speedo
 

Original 140 Speedo with original mileage listed for the Gold Yenko

Great car, great thread. I grew up on the southside of Indy and lived about a mile from Nankivell. Dad was a car enthusiast so we were there a lot for parts and to look at new cars. We both recall the orange 69 ZL1 they had but I don't remember or never saw this one.
In 1975 Dad bought a new Cosworth Vega from them that is still in the family with my brother Ted, so this is really cool to see all the memorabilia and pics. Nankivell badge on rear, pic from '78.


When I was looking at my fist car in '75, I was 15, one of the salesmen there, Rick Newkirk, had a green 70 Yenko Deuce for sale. Personally I think, not from the dealership. We went to his house in Greenwood to look at it but $1200 was way more than my paper route could support, and Dad was not wavering on our deal. So we passed on the Yenko and I got a 67 Camaro for $250. Probably why I'm still alive today.... ;)


Bill

Here is a pic of the dealer badge. Ted just went out and checked the Vega and the badge had come off over the years but was still in it.

If you don’t mind a little additional input, it was still Nankivell into at least 76 as we were still dealing with them. In fact I can check my late 70’s yearbooks and old parts receipts to see when Hubler showed up. :)

The building at 3800 is still there and is still a used car dealership owned by Hubler. In is not in Greenwood. Hubler moved down 31 decades ago to that location you are thinking about, but the original Nankivell to Hubler building is at 31 and National, just inside the outer loop at 6 o’clock. This is where Doug’s car would have come from.

Wow, 31 decades? They had car dealers that long ago? :)

Dealership pic

I have that same postcard I think it’s about 8 inches long

Very cool. Same corner today.

That’s great thank you for sharing the photos of the same location from 50 years ago

wow did not know about this car . Nice find Sir:!!

Howie....we call her Goldie Locks

Few pictures from Troy the former owner who bought the car in 1976.

Gotta luv the Super Tricks!

Great pics. That black cherry 70 Chevelle with the white stripes, roof and guts looks really nice.

Rich

In the late 1970s the car got painted from Olympic Gold to Burgundy.

Very cool thanks for posting the photos

As the car sits today. Wearing the same burgundy paint that was applied in the late 1970s.

I believe that Chevelle was owned by a Davenport cop. Only one I saw in the Quad cities back in the day. He partied with us in about 1971.

Wonder if that car is still around??

Rich

Love the Centerlines.