67 Yenko Camaro question?

[John]

...ask him if his car had the "chrome & black" Yenko emblems on it at one time...

[Charley Lillard]

I spoke with Jim. He thinks he bought the Black 67 in 82. I think he had to pay about 8K for it. One of his old employees was working for the dealer that had it and told the dealer that Jim was interested in it. He tlked to the owner and the owner agreed to hold it till about 10:30 AM on Monday morning. Jim was there and had it bought by 9:30 am. He added the 427 emblem on the spoiler and the Yenko emblems on the fenders. He also added the emblems on the hood. The large 427 numbers on the fenders were always there. He said it was orig paint when he got it and you could still see the outline of the old emblems on the fenders. In his conversation with the orig owner it had the spoiler on it when it was sold new but thought the dealer could have added it because it took till 68 to sell it. The spoiler might have been added to try and help sell it.

[427TJ]

Some of the early Camaro 427 conversion cars used the flags and separate "427" emblems from the '67 Impala SS 427. The flags are a wider V than the Turbo Jet flags and the 427 is a separate emblem mounted above the flags. The first Dana Camaro, converted from a 350 car for Ole Bardahl, had these flags.

[berger]

very cool...does it have its original motor, is it a MQ suffix on pad?? What's its cast number if so...?

[dons67]

So I guess its safe to say that most rear 427 and Yenko emblems were added by the owers after the fact to advertise their power. Did the stinger hood have the 427 on it after it was installed or was that a dealer or owner added option?

[berger]

well we got all the original body panels on the car and started w/ the fenders that have emblem holes filled, you can see them from the backside and the outline from retainer nuts left...its the camaro emblem on top then a 67 impala v flag below w/ two holes set wide apart that measure up right for it and that's all, no 427 emblem holes, and no 396 or 427 turbo jet v flag 4 hole patterns, just camaro above fender crease and impala big flag a few inches below crease, and ss emblem holes at front of fender. I spoke again w/ last owner I can find in 76-80 from old registration and he said I was correct, that's all it had for emblems, no 427 emblems or turbojet emblems, it also had a ss gas cap he said w/ no engine designation, it had the flat plain jane hood w/ hood pins then and now, not a ss hood, all body panels have been sanded down and have orig red paint under the white paint and grey primer he did in 80', he said the car had a 60 over 427 w/ tripower, and had to be rebuilt by him and his buddy in76, he didn't know anything about yenkos then just thought it was a bigblock, he was able to help us w/ gauges in car and walnut ss steering wheel, rs w/ console, s/w gauges in the console , and a 10k s/w tach black face bolted to the dash on top of by pad right of steering wheel, hope to clear up more info on orig setup of car, hope it helps anyone w/ 67 yenkos built after 3rd week of may.. My car also sold at same dealer as the black one on this thread..

[berger]

we're working on the emblems on the trunk lid and front valance, going by the measurements of the holes underneath, he was unable to help us w/ those as they were the only ones missing when he had the car, the lid has no spoiler, or filled holes that it ever had one. car did have interior chrome appearance package and still has some orig components of it, black interior, and orig 120 speedo, only other filled holes we have are at bottom of fenders, not sure yet if exterior chrome rocker panels or another emblem, we think exterior chrome at this point as we have orig chrome door guards that were on doors..

[berger]

yep regular chevrolet and camaro two emblems on front valance, while looking under trunk lid at holes we noticed a big glop of filler hanging down, felt around and lo and behold the car had rear radio antenna!, checked under front fender and sure enough its not punched for a front one, cool, also noticed two filled holes about 3 inches apart to the left of gas cap, looks to be a yenko or harrell shield emblem or central chevy dealer emblem at one time, both fenders match up holes at bottom for the rocker chrome (large molding), also got a small piece of the orig. WHITE bumble bee stipe on edge of front valance, taking some digital pics for reference, will post if anyone wants to see, got two 7 holes filled emblems on both front fenders, between the impala flag and camaro emblem, we thought it was just filler but sanded down front of fender and they are holes for a emblem, taking measurements to see if it lines up w/ anything at that time, not a 3 hole 427 emblem for sure, got orig glass codes off windshield and rear glass if anyone needs them, rear glass is safety AS2 lof SOLID TEMPERED M51 plate GZ , windshield is safety AS1 LOF Laminated M3 plate LZ, working on doors glass their in it, gotta crank them up, car never had small block emblems or turbo jet's , interesting