April '04 Feature car

[mhassett]

Congrats Joe, Get it to the REUNION!! Like the color combo.
Mark

[johnk]

joe,congratulations on your deuce!car looks super! :headban
best of luck with it!enjoy!

john
1970 yenko deuce ys#057

[Don_Lightfoot]

Terrific car, ones that I have always liked. Perhaps someone could enlighten me here on a couple of things:

1) - Car appears to have the regular 69/70 SS Wheels like the Chevelle and Camaro (69). Was it normal for these Yenko Deuces not to get the trim ring, similar to the GTO Judges of those years?

2) - Hard to determine from the pictures, but is the outside color of the wheels the same as those other SS wheels or a little darker?

Hopefully my small brain can handle this additional information Appreciate it.

[hvychev]

Don, Mr Yenko did in fact upgrade to the SS wheels that were also used on the 70 Chevelle SS. They used no trim ring and instead of a SS center decal they use a Y decal for Yenko. The finish would have been the same. The original "as delivered" wheels would have been a steel XT 14X6 body color painted rim with a dog dish hubcap. Attached you will find a pic of Marlins Deuce in the "before converted" configuration.

Joey when I look at the pictures the more I can't wait to see her in person! BTW I LOVE the Lustine dealer emblem. Hell the memorabilia KING should have an emblem for the dealer that his own SUPERCAR came from........If I only had some Loehmann items!

[camarojoe]

Well said Frank! As a sidenote, the wheels were not "GM" wheels, and were bought after the fact by Yenko to replace the XT coded steel wheels and "dog dish" hubcaps the cars were delivered from GM with. The center caps had "Magnum 500" in the centers, and Yenko placed the "Y" decal directly over the top without removing the original insert. If you look closely, you can still see the original emblem underneath the Y decals. Oddly enough, the wheels DID have the same AO code as GM factory installed SS wheels from 70. The paint finish is the same, as is the offset. No trim ring was used. The spare tire remained the factory installed XT wheel painted body color.

[Don_Lightfoot]

Interesting. Thanks for the clarification Frank & Joe

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Joe is right on the money, and you should know that the hubs on your Yenko are actual NOS, deep, Magnum 500 hubs that I gave to Neal. So under your Y decals are the original, correct, pressed plastic inserts!

Trivia questions:

Did all Deuces get the wheel swaps?
Why did these wheels receive GM's AO code even though they are not from GM?
What was the stack of leftover XT wheels called?
Who actually did the wheel swaps?

[hvychev]

M why didn't you give Neal the hubs for my car!!!

Hey M I remember that the stack of XT's were refered as the rainbow right? That would have been a cool sight.

M I have a basic novice type question regarding the Deuces. What happened to the factory window stickers that would have been on the cars from GM that showed the COPO info? Have any ever surfaced?

[Supercar_Kid]

[ QUOTE ]
Why did these wheels receive GM's AO code even though they are not from GM?

[/ QUOTE ] Good question. My guess would be that they were actually given the AO code by Motorwheel when they were produced, which was probably just their way of identifying a 14x7" 4&3/4" painted steel wheel that was manufactured for '70. The ones they sold GM were most likely from the same batches as the set you'd buy at your local speed shop, or wheel/tire shop down the street in Don's case. I'd like to know the definitive answer though, so let's hear it.