Fencl-Tufo's Draggin Deuce

**hvychev** · #1 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** · #2 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** · #3 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** · #4 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** · #5 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 · #6 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.

**chads454Ls6** · #7 10-13-2004, 09:33 PM

Frank,that is real cool! i saw a citrus green deuce for the first time at the reunion this year and i gotta say i love that color! Good luck,chad

Supercar_Kid · #8 10-13-2004, 09:24 AM

Very cool stuff Frank, and as they say "straight from the lion's den."

I'm very surprised to see that card noting the Deuces were specially fleet ordered through Yenko, knowing that only Central Chevy was privy enough to get their own '70 LT-1 Novas built by GM. Can I get a closer look at it?

JoeC · #9 10-13-2004, 04:40 PM

Good work Frank! cool info
just a thought on the QLL533 ID#
Hurst farmed out some of the work that was farmed out to them to Demmer Engineering of Lansing, MI
maybe the L in QLL5 is for Lansing? just a guess
Maybe a Hurst Olds guy can supply some info as the Hurst Olds were built there.
Did you find any shipping records?

**Mr70** · #10 10-13-2004, 06:25 PM

Frank
Was all this the result from the guy that approached you at Lombard this summer,when you brought your Deuce over?
I know him from D&R Camaro.

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