Jack Douglass Yenko(shor) - Page 2

**Mr70** · #11 10-25-2002, 04:27 PM

Sorry Stefano,I was cofused.That makes sense now.

Frank
I-355 is many miles away due west of the Old Jack Douglass Chevy in Hinsdale,and Team Chevy in Westmont.I can't see it affecting their sales at all...
I-294 is next to The Old Jack Douglass now, and Rt.83 is next to Team in Westmont today.Are one of these what you meant?

**Stefano** · #12 10-25-2002, 05:08 PM

Rick,
Douglass Moved to the current Team Chevy Location in the Mid 1970s(?) Team Chevy is the most recent Old Douglass Chevy Location and the express way did hurt sales just as Frank mentioned.

Jack moved back to the First Douglass Location, in Hinsdale after he sold the Dealership and when it became Team Chevy to sell special interest cars, mostly Corvettes and Muscle cars.

**Mr70** · #13 10-25-2002, 05:36 PM

Good to know,but I-355 does not run right through Team Chevrolets front door.Rt.83 does and they recently blocked off the dealerships entrance to it for good.I thought that is what he meant.Sorry a lil bored today.... [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

Steven J · #14 10-25-2002, 07:35 PM

If it matters, I-355 went through the Grand Mandarin Restaurant's front yard. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

**hvychev** · #15 10-25-2002, 07:48 PM

Guys sorry to turn this thread into a geography debate! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] You are right Rick I ment to say rte 83. I made a typo, afterall I was a Margarita under when I made that post!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Im sure you local Chi-Town guys have made a trip to Team and saw how hard it is to get in that joint. It's like a maze. That is how rte 83 affected sales.

Belair62 · #16 10-25-2002, 09:06 PM

I really hate to go here but instead of trying to re-read that WHOLE post on the Douglass cars....I thought they ALL were striped with Yenko stripes...even the asterisk cars ....yes/no ?

shor · #17 10-25-2002, 10:04 PM

Hi Belair,
I spoke to Ken about this. The early 70 picture he has of the car shows it without stripes. On Ed's site he does state that one car was to be delivered without stripes.
http://www.copo.com/L72-VIN-69-Douglas-Camaro.htm
Clint is going to check in the door area (he thinks the doors are original, but not the fenders, of his car(now painted blue) to see if he sees any stripe remnants, but he didn't see any very easily as of late last night. He does have title history back to the original owner though so let's see what happens. I for one would like to hear from an original owner also! If he can get in touch with his original owner, I have a shot of maybe finding mine too? Do you think they knew each other? Two twin cars coming in at the same time on the same transporter? Let's see!

**Stefano** · #18 10-25-2002, 11:56 PM

Bob,
Yes,they were all to have been striped, but for the one exception which has been found, which was Hugger Orange.

With the Estate Document count at 22 and Jack's count at 25-1=24 there could be a couple more which did not have the stripe kit, based on the info. we have to work with.

I received a welcomed call from Clint regarding his Douglass COPO*Yenko. He can correct me if the info. provided is incorrect regarding his car. I have not seen it.

The picture he told me about is Circa 1971 and the car had just come out of a body shop for repairs. It was hit in the rear quarter pannel area. There are no stripes/badges on the car in the picture.

The car was repainted complete at least once again thereafter. Color change to blue. The only "original paint" is what is left under the blue paint.

This is not a pristine survivor car and since we know that at least some of the panels/fenders had been changed as well as repainted and then color changed it would not be the best example to find any stripes on.

There were Yenkos from Douglass (plural) which soon had the stripes removed (very old post) to maintain a stealth sleeper appearance but we don't know if they were originally invoiced to Canonsberg or Hinsdale.

I too think it would be cool for Clint to find some difinitve info.as to how his car was sold to the public when new.

Good luck with your quest and post some pics of the car if you can. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

**bkhpah** · #19 10-26-2002, 01:37 AM

You might try checking the back of the hood. Many times extra striping was wrapped under the rear...BKH

ChrisS · #20 10-28-2002, 01:44 AM

Stefano, was Jack working with a fellow by the name of Buxbaum/Classics when he went back to the original building on Ogden Ave? I've heard that when Buxbaum acquired Grand Sport #1 that it was restored at a shop in Geneva, Ill. and that he actually put a few street miles on it [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] , but I'm not sure whether that was at Hinsdale or after they moved Classics out to Joliet.

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