Yenko Vegas?

[Schonyenko2]

I remember reading in a motor trend in 71 that they ran a Yenko vega, a mustang, and another car that I can't remember. The vega was the fastest. Ran low-mid 14s, but the said the block had gotten porus from the turbo, and got tired very quickly. I had a 76 vega GT 5spd. Ran Mobil 1 in it. Had 90k on it when I sold it, and would get 32mpg. Without the Mobil 1 it did'nt like to start in the winter. Schonye

[x44d80]

I agree that a Yenko Vega would be a cool car to have, as would any Yenko tuned car. I never thought for a million years I'd like a Corvair till I saw the Yenko Stingers and would take one in a second.

[Canucklehead]

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Say what you will... i think a Yenko Vega would be a cool car to have.

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Im not knocking them im just mentioning that there proablly is'nt a lot around becouse they were not built well. Ive never seen a yenko vega but i would imagine that Don built them up to handle his modifications, which in turn would give you a much better car then the factory could turn out. I built one of those v8 vegas back in the day, never did finish it as i traded the project for a better car.

[55chevy]

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That's not a surprise, I wish I could have seen the 50,000 mile endurance test Yenko Vega afterwards. Somebody fill in the details, was the block junked? Something like oil seeped right through the aluminum casting?

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Most likely why Motion put 350s and 454s in 'em.

[Rathbone]

I don't mean to hijack the thread but has anyone ever seen a Motion Vega? I haven't but I remember the seeing ads in magazines for years after they quit building Vegas. There must have been a bunch of them at one time.

[sYc]

Actually one of our CA members has one. A cool piece to say the least..

https://www.yenko.net/features/2000/May2000.htm

If we could just get him to bring it to a SCR.

[JChlupsa]

Its my understanding that a bunch of the BM Vegas got shipped off to the Philippines and other exported areas. Have some friends checking on the Philippine connection already!!

[shor]

i have an old video of a silver motion vega at the track.
they are cool cars

[sYc]

Shor, Rob mentioned seeing a Vega in the video you sent, but I thought he said Yenko Vega..

[shor]

oops.
meant yenko vega.
i had just read jeffs post and had BM on the mind