[K Pascoe]

I was reading a post in the tech section on this site and noticed there was some talk about a purple Yenko in NY. I am from NY and know that car very well. A friend of mine owned this car when we were in high school/college.We used to call it ''Grape Ape''We used to get into trouble with this car on a regular basis,back then it had a small block in it and as young and stupid as we were we had NO idea it was a yenko! A couple of years later after my friend sold the car he ran into a previous owner of the car and he informed him that the car was indeed a Yenko camaro.For years my friend searched for the car. One day,a friend contacted him telling him he saw ''Grape Ape'' out in front of a body shop about 30 minutes away.He jumped in his car in search of the ape. Once at the body shop,the owner was considering getting rid of it,they were going to use it for a street stock car but decided it was to far gone. To make a long story short,he bought the car back for what a couple would spend on dinner on a Sat night!!The car was by no means worthy of being restored so he sold it to I believe the Camaro association in Fla.The disc brakes were torched out of it, the doors I believe were bashed in,etc...I have since lost track of this car if my mind serves me correctly it was car #43.I will try to post some pics of this car as I think it will make for an interesting post... KP