Vintage pics of our Yenko Camaro.

[markinnaples]

All great pics, but that last one is epic Day Two-ness [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ain't it a small world! Congrats Tom! </div></div>

To continue with the &quot;small world&quot; theme: My great aunt and uncle owned the hardware store in downtown Blytheville.

(&quot;Seymore Hardware&quot.

K

[sYc]

Cool...

[resto4u]

why is it that copo's or yenko's did not get a black tailpan? Did only x22, x66 get black out, not the copo's because they were x11, x44 cars so the line did not realize the big block and no black out.

[cook_dw]

The very early X22 &amp; X66 cars did but when they went with X44 &amp; X11 the black pan stopped. Great pics!! What year did you buy the yellow car from Cliff?

[ne70ss]

Very cool.

[sYc]

In 1993 Super Chevy magazine did an article on Cliff Ernst, a businessman from Nashville, titled “The Temple of Zoom”. At the time he had the largest collection of Yenkos in the world, maybe around 20. According to information to Jamie, the gentleman in Blytheville who owned my car sold it to a collector in Nashville.

We purchased the car from Cliff in 1999, in un-restored condition. We redid the car in our garage, removing the faded white stripes and yellow paint, going back yellow, but with black stripes, which at the time I thought looked better, not occurring to me the rarity of the original combination of yellow/white.

In the article is a photo taken of Cliff with a couple of his unrestored cars, Though black and white photo, obvious two of them are Daytona Yellow, and the one farthest away, if you look closely, you can see the whites stripes.

[cook_dw]

Ill look and see if I have any photos of the car from the mid 90's

[sYc]

Above I stated we purchased it it 1999, as I do the math, it would have been early 1997.

[sYc]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sYc</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And how cool is this one?

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This photo is rather interesting. The gentleman from ST Louis who bought our car new told me that a friend bought a Green Yenko Camaro at the same time as he did, racing each other to and from work.