69 Yenko Camaro

[John]

…
… Did Don Yenko give his "blessing" or "approval" to this dealer

… BEFORE Jack Douglas ordered these cars

… or

… AFTER these cars were already ordered ?


…

[William]

For the '69 MY, Douglass was a Yenko franchisee. In the now famous April '87 MCR interview shortly before his death, Yenko stated the last 100 cars were very hard to sell because they had become virtually uninsurable. At some point, Yenko had several hundred thousand dollars worth of on-hand inventory and cars on order. Those cars had to be invoiced and shipped for the dealership to remain solvent. I cannot imagine why he would allow a franchisee to breach the contract.

The local Yenko dealer, Yunker Chev, was still running ads for Yenkos in November '69. I remember that time very well. By 1971, you couldn't give a muscle car away.

[JoeC]

According to former Yenko employees, Don was not very happy when he found out that Douglas ordered his own 427 Camaros and ordered replacement Yenko stripes and emblems to install on the cars. They noted some heated phone conversations between Don and Jack.
It was later worked out where Douglas would pay a fee to use the Yenko baging on the 427 cars bought outside the Yenko system.