My visit to COLONIAL Chevrolet in Norfolk, VA

[Supercar_Kid]

I was in Richmond this week on business, and decided to kill an evening by driving the 2 hours to Norfolk to visit Colonial Chevrolet, the largest Yenko SPAN network dealer in VA back in the day. My brother's Deuce sold new from there, and I think there are several members here who own Colonial cars so I thought this thread might be appreciated.

Today the place is owned by Rick Hendrick of Nascar fame, and it's an entirely new and beautiful place. I was hoping to find the original 60's building surviving, but I was told it had been demolished years ago to build the current place's parking lot up the road.

It's definitely still a performance oriented dealer with many new Corvettes in stock as well as local cruiser's 69 RS/SS 427 phantom Camaro that was roped off in the showroom next to a chromed out GM performance small block crate motor on a stand.

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Front of current dealership

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Pick your poison, I'll take mine in a black 6 speed coupe w/ red guts.

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The used car place next to the new dealership has an older feel.

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This would look cool in my garage.

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front

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Now for the cool stuff...inside they have many framed photos celebrating their long history of selling Chevrolets.

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An old invoice from a deal back in '55 was framed and hanging on the wall. Unfortunately that's the only stitch of old paperwork Colonial has. The sales manager told me they keep records around 7-9 years and that's about it. Nothing remains of the Yenko cars.

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Some of the cool COLONIAL signage

[COPO]

Cool stuff! My 69 Yenko Camaro is from Colonial. Thanks for sharing.