Fencl-Tufo's Draggin Deuce

**hvychev** · #1 10-13-2004, 08:41 AM

Don't get to excited.....I don't have the car.....yet! I have acquired the next best thing, The original paperwork from Yenko Chevrolet to Fencl Tufo Chevrolet. It is a real long story that I will try to give the short version of. I heard of a guy this past summer through Dan Hornback who owns the Forest Green Deuce that was sold through Fencl Tufo. Dan told me of a guy that approached him at a cruise in that said he had the paperwork on his car that he had "acquired" through the dealership when he worked there in the early 80's. Dan was able to purchase his original paperwork from this guy which I saw. I naturally became very excited and asked Dan to give me his info so I could contact him. The cool thing was the guy lived in my then hometown of Plainfield, IL. I ended up getting in contact with him and spent quite a lot of time with him. During that time I purchased the Fencl Tufo jacket and playing cards that I posted pictures of in the Fencl Tufo and Brigance Chevy thread in the Misc. Dealers section of this site. During the time of our meeting he brought a STACK of original paperwork that he got from the dealership. There were DOZENS of cars and ALL the paperwork pertaining to them. LS6's Z28's L89's SS396's , etc., etc., (this is a whole other thread). In his findings he had three of the six Yenko Deuces that were sold at F/T Chevy along with a Tor Red Yenko Vega. The cars were Dan Hornbacks Forest Green car, John Downers Gobi Beige car, & The Draggin Deuce. John and Dan have purchased there paperwork and Ed Cunneen got the Vega paperwork years ago from the guy. He did not find paperwork for the other three cars.

The guy worked the parts counter at Fencl Tufo and one day he took a call at the desk from a guy looking for some misc. part for his SS350 69 Camaro. In their conversation the guy asked the customer for his vin number. He had known that all of the old records were stored in the parts dept. so he started to look through the boxes and actually found the paperwork for the guys Camaro and sold it to him. After that he started looking through all the boxes and pulled the cool cars out of the bunch. The bad thing was he only pulled the factory paperwork and not paperwork with any customer info on it in fear that he would get into trouble for having peoples SS#'s DL#'s and personal financing info that you usually need to buy a car. This all took place in the mid 80's and in 1989 the dealership was sold and a professional company came in and shredded all the remaining documents. He has tracked down through title searches, etc., some of the other cars and has reunited their paperwork with the current owners.

After a couple of months of working him I was able to pry the paperwork for the Draggin Deuce out of his hands. He said that he had it for 20 years and after finding out the car was special, he said he would never sell the paperwork but what can I say...I am a salesman!

I had to pay IMO stupid money for it but if anyone else finds the car before me it is able to be purchased. Here are some pics.

**hvychev** · #2 10-13-2004, 08:43 AM

Here is a pic of all the documents including a NOS dealer decal that I made him look for weeks in his stuff cause I wanted it so bad.

**hvychev** · #3 10-13-2004, 08:44 AM

Here is the invoice.

**hvychev** · #4 10-13-2004, 08:45 AM

Here is a carbon copy that was on the back side of the actual window sticker when Yenko typed them up.

**hvychev** · #5 10-13-2004, 08:46 AM

Here is a card that was attached to the back from Don F Yenko that explains that dealers can't count/report these cars as sales through Chevrolet because they were ordered as fleet cars through Yenko Chevy.

**hvychev** · #6 10-13-2004, 08:52 AM

This IMO is the coolest item of the bunch. This is a piece of card board that was inserted into a metal strip that went on a slide board at Fencl Tufo Chevrolet which kept track of all there inventory. What it had on it was the car info, color, vin#, date in inventory, and the list price. On the back was the dealer cost of the car so the salesman knew where they were working form. The WEIRD thing is that I know of ONE dealer that still does business this VERY old way at his own dealership.........Mr. Ed Schoenthaller. He brought this practice with him from when he worked at Fencl Tufo. I guess that the old ways were the best ways!

**hvychev** · #7 10-13-2004, 08:53 AM

This is the NOS never installed dealer decal that I got from the guy. It is printed on a reflective sheeting. Dan Hornback and Geno Engler have a professional copy on the way for their Deuces!

**hvychev** · #8 10-13-2004, 08:56 AM

Dan Hornback made me a better copy of the original picture that he took of the Draggin Deuce at Oswego drag strip in 1970-71. The one that is on the site under Vintage Supercar Photos is a bad copy and cropped smaller than the original.

**hvychev** · #9 10-13-2004, 09:04 AM

The paperwork is absolutely positively real. There are a few cool things about it. First the color of the car is typed wrong on the invoice and scratched out and written correctly in pen. Second the stock number is not the stock number of HYS140 that is on the inventory sheets. It is YS-QLL533. On Dans and Johns cars paperwork the inventory sheet stock number was on them. Is this because the Citrus Green car was a Hurst Car? Is there an explaination for this? Marlin? Third the car came equpit with the Instrument package for $45.00.

camarojoe · #10 10-13-2004, 09:21 AM

Cool stuff Frank...Congrats. That guy also contacted me to buy it after you 2 had been wheeling and dealing, and i told him that no one wanted that stuff for the Draggin Deuce any more than you did, and also told him to take your offer...I'm glad he did. Now you just need to go find the car to go along with the memorabilia you already have! I know thats a little backwards, but hey, it worked for me.

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