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Yenko 73 Camaro?
I posted over on the Motion forum that I seemed to remember an article about a 73 Camaro that was a shop test car with a mild 400 small block in it. It was suggested that I might have been thinking of a car that Yenko built. I read the article decades ago and it was old back then. Does this ring a bell with anyone here?
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Rich,
this is the article I was talking about. The writer saw this 400 cu in Z/28 at the GM proving ground. the article says that it was going to be Yenko's new "Super Z" 400 Camaro and he was "taking orders" |
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That article is the one I was thinking of when you mentioned it. I could see that picture in my head, but couldn't recall where. Thanks for finding it
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That's the one. Thanks.
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I wonder how many were made and what the option cost. I seem to remember the ad saying the car had a/c but that wasn't available on a Z in 1972. The 73 z ran the quarter in about the same time as the 70 Z and the 70 had over 100 more HP and steeper gears. I wouldn't doubt that this car would have went deep into the 13's Pontiac's Super Duty Firebirds ran 13.50's with 290 HP. Who knows?
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hard to say what Don would have built for a 1973 Yenko COPO 400 cu in Camaro but we can use the Yenko Duece as an example.
A mystery SS350 360hp Nova showed up at the 1970 Chevy press pre view where the press was allowed to test it on a drag strip and a road course and it was well liked. Don was able to get it for the Deuce. Yenko did a COPO order to get a non SS Nova with the LT1, 4sp and TH400, F41, 4:10 12 bolt posi, PDB, base interior and other items He was able to get a custom made 4sp Hurst Shifter installed on the line (that was amazing), and ordered a column shift TH400 then dealer installed a Hurst Auto Stick floor conversion shifter. He added a hood tach and his own design stripe kit and other options For the 1973 Yenko Camaro, he may have got the COPO 400 cu in Camaro and ordered it as a non Z/28 with F41, 4:10 12 bolt posi, PDB, base interior. ft and rear spoilers, a 70 71 Hurst shifter (Camaro did not use the Hurst in 73) a TH400 option with dealer installed Hurst Duel gate shifter, and other options he liked possibly a COPO for a wider tire like he did on the Yenko Chevelle possibly a COPO for larger sway bars like on the 1968 COPO Camaro possibly a COPO for a Magnum 500 wheel or some other GM wheel maybe a hood tach and gauges or something else from Dixco add a Yenko design stripe package We can only guess Last edited by JoeC; 03-23-2019 at 02:49 PM. |
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