Fencl-Tufo's Draggin Deuce

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Don't get to excited.....I don't have the car.....yet! I have acquired the next best thing, The original paperwork from Yenko Chevrolet to Fencl Tufo Chevrolet. It is a real long story that I will try to give the short version of. I heard of a guy this past summer through Dan Hornback who owns the Forest Green Deuce that was sold through Fencl Tufo. Dan told me of a guy that approached him at a cruise in that said he had the paperwork on his car that he had "acquired" through the dealership when he worked there in the early 80's. Dan was able to purchase his original paperwork from this guy which I saw. I naturally became very excited and asked Dan to give me his info so I could contact him. The cool thing was the guy lived in my then hometown of Plainfield, IL. I ended up getting in contact with him and spent quite a lot of time with him. During that time I purchased the Fencl Tufo jacket and playing cards that I posted pictures of in the Fencl Tufo and Brigance Chevy thread in the Misc. Dealers section of this site. During the time of our meeting he brought a STACK of original paperwork that he got from the dealership. There were DOZENS of cars and ALL the paperwork pertaining to them. LS6's Z28's L89's SS396's , etc., etc., (this is a whole other thread). In his findings he had three of the six Yenko Deuces that were sold at F/T Chevy along with a Tor Red Yenko Vega. The cars were Dan Hornbacks Forest Green car, John Downers Gobi Beige car, & The Draggin Deuce. John and Dan have purchased there paperwork and Ed Cunneen got the Vega paperwork years ago from the guy. He did not find paperwork for the other three cars.

The guy worked the parts counter at Fencl Tufo and one day he took a call at the desk from a guy looking for some misc. part for his SS350 69 Camaro. In their conversation the guy asked the customer for his vin number. He had known that all of the old records were stored in the parts dept. so he started to look through the boxes and actually found the paperwork for the guys Camaro and sold it to him. After that he started looking through all the boxes and pulled the cool cars out of the bunch. The bad thing was he only pulled the factory paperwork and not paperwork with any customer info on it in fear that he would get into trouble for having peoples SS#'s DL#'s and personal financing info that you usually need to buy a car. This all took place in the mid 80's and in 1989 the dealership was sold and a professional company came in and shredded all the remaining documents. He has tracked down through title searches, etc., some of the other cars and has reunited their paperwork with the current owners.

After a couple of months of working him I was able to pry the paperwork for the Draggin Deuce out of his hands. He said that he had it for 20 years and after finding out the car was special, he said he would never sell the paperwork but what can I say...I am a salesman! I had to pay IMO stupid money for it but if anyone else finds the car before me it is able to be purchased. Here are some pics.