Who on here has a Yenko from Francis Chevy (STL)?

[DaveBonnell]

Just wondering how many of them are still around. I know Tom's car is from Francis (Now Londoff Chevy). I have spoken with a few of you guys before about this dealer in St. Louis, MO. My grandpa was the guy in charge there in the late 60's before it became Londoff, and was the one in charge of bringing in the Yenko cars. He even met with Don Yenko in 69 I believe when Don came to St. Louis to see how things were going. As the story goes my grandpa took Don on a tour of St. Louis, the Zoo etc. Don had just been in a racing accident and was in a wheel chair, he had a cast on his broken leg. My grandpa had taken my aunt (who was 13 at the time) along on the tour and she had a cast on her broken arm, so Don signed my aunt's cast and she signed his! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif[/img] My grandpa said Yenko was a really nice guy and was saddened when he heard he had died in that plane crash. he also said those cars were ungoddly fast and he remembers either a yellow auto and a lemans blue 4spd comeing in at the same time and he and a friend taking the 4spd car for a spin and remembers roasting the tires on the highway at 55mph! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

This year at SCR 03 I am gonna try to get my grandpa to come out, so some of your Francis Yenko owners can fire some questions at him.

[L72COPO]

Firehawk, I own one of the Francis cars. Hugger Orange, 4spd, X66 body, 19,XXX miles, original paint.

Don Stowers
Aiken, SC

[Chevy454]

Firehawk:

MAKE SURE he stops by our Yellow car, as there might be a ride in it for him (could he handle a run in the 12s?!).

BTW, how did the Mustang/F-body event out at MAR go? I wish I could have made it, but the timing was just all wrong.

[DaveBonnell]

Rob, you bet I will!

The FAST vs. STL Mustangs event went great! Only 65 cars so it was a hot lapp'n like crazy day! I ran about 11 times from 10-12 and I probably "rested" for a good 45 minutes total here and there. Did a little computer tuning with a friends lap top to dial the car in a little more. All in all for a completely stock LT1 6spd car on Firestones Z-rated 17in street tires, I was turning 13.7-13.8s at around 101-103mph, with a 2.0-2.2 60'. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] The LS1 boys where amazing though, stock ones running low 13s and slightly modded cars dipping into the 11s [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif[/img] no mustangs stood a chance. Would have been cool to have your SYC out there though, maybe next year!

[Mr70]

I have an Original Vintage <font color="black">FRANCIS CHEVROLET</font> dealership Trunk emblem from St. Louis Mo.
It is 7"x2" with the Chevrolet Bowtie emblem and a Red Mules head on the other.
Contact me if anyone is in need of it.