Does anyone know this 1969 Yenko Camaro

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Last night I sold a 2002 F-250 pickup to a guy, and as were doing his paperwork he saw the Yenko, and Nickey ads hanging in my office and said he once had a 69 Yenko Camaro.
The story goes that he bought it used in 1970 at Fencil-Tufo Chevrolet with 3,000 miles for around $4,000. He told me he was 18 years old and his father had to co-sign for him to get financed. The car was green, black interior, 4 speed with all the Yenko stripes and badges. He got no paperwork with the car. He said he drove the car from 70-73 as a dailey driver. He had never herd of Yenko but bought it because it was a 427. When he would go to buy parts for it the parts guys didn't believe that it was a factory 427 because it wasn't listed in the parts books. In 1973 him and a friend decided to make it a race car. They did the car up with all the race mods, a fiber glass front end, and painted it black. He said it ran 11's at US 30, and other drag strips. He retired the car in 1978 behind his fathers garage in Westmont, Il covered with a tarp, and went on with life. In 92 or 93 he was going to have the car hauled away to a junk yard but his cousin told a few people about it and Gary Dyer (the guy that had the blower company) herd through the grapevine that he had the car and rushed to come see it. My customer, Craig J, just wanted the car out of his fathers house, and wasn't expecting Gary to pay much because the car was modified and not in good shape from sitting outside fior all those years. Craig said that when Gary offered him $24,000 for the car he almost fell over. He said that he learned a little about Yenko over the years, but had no idea how much they were worth especially in that shape. He said he would have taken $1,000 for it! According to Craig, Gary had the car concourse restored to the tune of $65,000, and later tried to sell it for $125,000. He said when Gary invited him to a show that he was showing the Camaro at after the resto, he said it looked exactly the same as it did when he drove it hone from Fencil-Tufo in 70, except for the sYc on the head rests. He said that they were never on there when he bought the car. I told him that they were vinal and probably fell off by then. a coupe of other interesting things that he said was when Gary came to pick the car up, Craig said it was like a flea market in the back yard and he had all the speed parts he had accumulated over the years out on tables in the yard and he told Gary to take it all and he would'nt. He did'nt even want the fiber glass front end that was on the car. He told me that later Gary called him and apparently the spedo was not in the car when it was sold and Gary begged him to find it. He said he would send him a thousand dollars if he track it down. He looked in four garages that he worked on cars in over the years in and said that he could'nt find it. A good ending to this story is that he said he had a good banker and invested the $24,000 he got for the car and made some good investments with it and put his son through four years of college with the money. I think this guy was legit in his story and he is comming in late next week with the check for the truck and is going to bring me pictures of the car before and after the resto to see. Does any one know this car of have any info to add? Sorry about the long post! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]