L78 CE Crawlspace find

**Furback** · #1 10-22-2013, 10:15 PM

Found last weekend and have it at home. CE 396 L78. Shortblock, appears to have never been run. It is supremely coated in grease. It was in a crawl space under a house wrapped in plastic. Dated 72. 4 bolt, 3/8 dimple rods, forged pistons, 6223 crank. No sign of any heads ever installed, pistons are as new, no black on top, cross hatching in cylinders is very bold. Built in a 290 block. Odd. All the paint dabs are on the rod nuts across the caps etc. Nice find. I almost broke my back moving this out of the crawlspace.

**luzl78** · #2 10-22-2013, 10:32 PM

Would you like to sell it to pay for the chiropractor bill to ease your back pain

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #3 10-22-2013, 10:33 PM

Did you ever find a hemi in a river?

**Furback** · #4 10-22-2013, 10:33 PM

We have free medical here in Canada. Well not free, I guess its in the huge taxes we pay. LOL

**Furback** · #5 10-22-2013, 10:36 PM

YDR - I assume that you found a Hemi in a river? That's a good one. Better than a crawlspace. I should have taken a photo. I did buy a 69 SS Nova parts car from a guy that had murdered his girlfriend and burned a barn down with two horses in it the day before though. That is true. The barn was still smoldering while we removed parts from the Nova a hundred yards away. And, maybe just maybe, that Hemi was attached to a sailboat? Huh?

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #6 10-23-2013, 08:47 PM

Nah! Just like to hear of the crazy places folks find stuff - sometimes you find Yenko's in fields, like mine. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

https://www.yenko.net/features/2001/field.jpg

**Furback** · #7 10-23-2013, 11:55 PM

Wow, just like that. It even still had the decals on it. We have lots of fields here, they just do not grow Yenkos.

**Furback** · #8 10-23-2013, 11:58 PM

There was a 69 Nova here I found years ago. It was rumored that it had a 427 in it. I bought it, no power train and then sent the VIN to GM Canada for docs. It came back un traceable. Who knows. I did save the cowl etc for years and finally sent it to the junk. Now I see there is VINs from USA to check for COPOS etc. Oh well.

markus37 · #9 10-29-2013, 06:24 PM

The Yenko Stinger Canadian Prototype I had at MCACN last year was found in a storage yard in Canada. Didn't know what I had until I found documents signed by Don Yenko from June 1966 relating to the car and then retired GM Canada employees steered me to the car's racing history.

**Fast67VelleN2O** · #10 10-29-2013, 06:27 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Did you ever find a hemi in a river? </div></div>

I thought it was a ZL1 block in a tow truck that was in a river? Or am I combining two stories?