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Damn...Good on Mecum for doing what they did:beers:

Anyone know who originally restored this Mecum Yenko?

I think it was the orig. owner that did the rebody.

I thought Darrell's brother in minn did the resto - they owned this car for a very long time from what i understand.......not sure who did the rebody - before the resto work or ?

Darrell did the current restoration but my understanding is the orig. owner did the rebody. Back then if you wrecked something you just got another body and swapped your stuff. Not sure when the hidden #'s on the top of the cowl got obliterated to where they couldn't be read.

Lots of documentation…but not for this car. Ouch.

Nasblu here on this site found out the back story on the rebody during his research of this car and its owner history….and he alerted the principal people involved after the auction purchase. Kuddos to him. He has helped several people on this site including myself.

I wont go into a lot of details of this cars life with names, places and dates etc but yes unfortunately the car had been rebodied. The original owner did not rebody the car. The car was sold by the original owner as a very nice intact street car. The 2nd owner drag raced the car extensively and modified the car in doing so. He did not rebody the car (although he did do the modifications that led to the cars original body's demise). The 3rd owner is the one who rebodied the car The body tub of YS-8035 sat behind his garage for a period of time before it was purchased and used in some form of dirt track racing before it met its ultimate demise of being scrapped and crushed. The original YS-8035 body is gone. 1968 Yenko Camaro YS-8035 RIP.

thanks for the info and research - so, when it was sold at mecum - i dont recall seeing the trim tag pics prior to auction - so was it obvious that the trim tag was removed and reinstalled that would have flag a potential issue? What triggered Frank to investigate the originality of the car?