[COPO]

The question: Where did my '69 Yenko Camaro come from?

Just got a package in the mail from the DMV. It had copies of all of the old titles for my car back to the original owner who purchased it at Colonial Chevrolet in July of '69. My car has a shipping date of 3-14-69 so it looks like it sat on the lot for a bit. The original owner only had it about a year and traded it back to Colonial Chev. On the original application for title under the heading "make" is typed in Yenko Camaro. The trail started with the NY DMV and then to NC before finally ending in VA. Pretty exciting and I was awefully lucky that the paperwork was still available. Now, I need to track down some prior owners. Thanks to Brian, Marlin and Steve A. for their assistance.

One interesting note about the car's history. From 1974 to 1991 it was owned by a gentleman from upper NY state. He bought the car while he was at the Marine Corps boot camp in NC and commuted a number of times between NC and upper NY. He told me it got real expensive to go home as it was during the Arab oil embargo and he had 4.88:1 gears! Can you imagine today driving that far w/a screaming 427 and 4.88 gears?? He also raced the car on occasion and it ran high 11's w/slicks.







[Edited by COPO (05-11-2001 at 09:18 AM).]