1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko

[Stefano]

Marlin,
There appears to have been 25 or so Network Dealers in 1969. I don't have the exact count in front of me so help me if I am wrong. When you take out the cars sold by Yenko Chevrolet, You will see that Douglass Chevrolet Sold More than Most of the other Network Dealers, if your counting just the Direct order Yenkos.

They would rank in the top few, volume wise if you included all the cars sold to the public as Yenkos. (Camaros, Chevelles and Novas)

In 1969 Douglass was the Numero Uno seller of Yenko Cars in Chicago , no matter the yard stick "you" choose to use.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I can see where you are going with this Steve, I'm just offering an alternative point of view. There were a lot of dealers in the network, Douglass was an important one, there is no dispute of that. But to suggest that the number of units listed on that sign was including those cars sold as Douglass/COPO/Yenko's is a stretch beyond circumstantial 'evidence', that's all.

The sign behind Don was in a photo taken at Colonial Chev. in Norfolk, and I would propose that it has no bearing on the situation in Chicago.

Please don't give me this 'you' stuff, consider me as balance in these discussions, the other wing, ballast, whatever, don't make it personal [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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[Belair62]

JD also sold the most COPO cars in Chicago....

[JoeC]

Yenko also built one Stinger in 69 and some race cars so the 350 total may have been pretty close. It is also a nice round number to use for a publicity opportunity.
The Yenko fans are lucky to have that article as that was done not long before Don's plane crash.

[ssl78]

Marlin,
I believe its a stretch in your mind. I believe it is more than likely that it does include those cars. If the numbers would have added up to around 330 to 335 you better believe certain people would have used that against the JD theory, because the numbers would have been higher if they were Yenkos. In Dons documents he stated there were 22 JD cars, it would be interesting to know when that car was sold, and how many were sold after that one. If anybody knows which car that was the build date to even see if it was after the JD cars.
201 99 35 =335 if there were around 15 additional yenkos sold after that one the numbers would work out. At this point it seems more likely he counted them than not. Just my opinion.
As for how many PA Yenkos JD sold its hard to tell I know of two he sold which have paperwork saying JD sold them, but on Ed's list they come up as Yenko selling them.

[Stefano]

John,
You bring up a good point in that the Ultimate Yenko Selling dealership is not always reflected on the lists Marlin mentioned. A certain Car may show Yenko Chevrolet, when it was indeed sold by another dealership.

[sYc]

Or could have been just Camaros sold through PA. I have documents for over 100 '67s, 50-60+ '68s, plus 200 '69s, that could explain the 350th unit built. That is my theory and I am sticking to it. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

But remember, theorys are like opinions and a___, everyone has one. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif[/img]

As per this article, Don was not very accurate in many of his statements. GM and his own paperwork has disproved much of what he was quoted as saying. As with much of the other Yenko paperwork, intereasting reading, but not very factual. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

[Belair62]

If there was a post about bottled water somehow the JD cars would be brought up.

[sYc]

Actually that is not true. There is more concrete evidence supporting the cars modified at Yenko Chevrolet, but not sold at Canonsburg, whether it be Frances, Van, who ever. There is less known about the Canonsburg sold cars, even though that is changing with the newly discovered files. That is one reason the number of Yenko built cars is changing (growing), as new information is found.

[TMagda]

Not sure if this is relevant to this discussion but I remember when I was a kid (9-10 years old), my father took me car shopping with him and there was a Yenko Nova on the showroom floor of our local Chevy dealer. This was in Norwalk, Connecticut around 1970 give or take. I think the dealer was named Redmann Chevrolet