Yenko Dealership license plate frame

[camarojoe]

I know you do, and I'm jealous! Mine's pretty beat up, but it's one of my favorite frames too... not sure what year it came out for sure though.

[camarojoe]

Here's another odd one... picked it up at the Washington Township swap meet... probably one of the neatest things I ever got there. I think the "High-Performance" lettering was added by the owner, as I've seen the same frame that says "Route 19" on top, yet the letters are as old and weather beaten as the rest of the frame... maybe Yenko "modified" a few for some special cars, or maybe someone just thought it would be cool to turn a mundane frame into something cooler...I know I've yet to see another one in this style with the "High Performance" lettering on top... All I know for sure is I dig it.

[bkhpah]

Don gave me that plate frame as well in 1981 during the Turbo Z days. The off white version was about the same time. The one I have does not say Hi-performance though. I remember when you picked that one up at WT.....BKH

[68l30]

Love that Hi-po white one....very cool! I wish my dealer plate was from 67-69, it's not. It's from 64 I think..Don used some cheepo square nuts to hold the thing together...LOL..I have a few of the Black plastic frames also. Top and bottom plate mount....any guess to the year? Don't forget the Yenko Porsche-Audi frames... I gotta get my computer fixed so I can download pics...


Steve

[camarojoe]

I don't have a Porsche-Audi frame... I think that's about the only style I'm missing. The black plastic ones with the refective Yenko sticker and "Preferred Customer" was used for many years...throughout the 80s and into the early 90's i think, Yenko Honda continued using them until the chrome plated plastic ones come out. I used to have a stack of the reflective stickers used on the black frames but either lost most of them or stuck 'em on stuff that looked like it needed to be emblazoned with the word "Yenko". There are 2 versions of the plastic chrome ones too. I always wondered if Yenko Honda intentionally omitted the word "Honda" from the "preferred customer" ones so they'd look cool on anything... probably not, but they do! I have one on just about every car/truck I've ever owned.