1969 yenko chevelle on ebay

[Canucklehead]

I can't believe that some people would even fall for this crap and actually purchase a car like this without even checking it out. More money than brains i guess.

[Belair62]

It's a very interesting looking trim tag...someone should go look at it...

[resto4u]

I have seen conflicting reports as to if warren has any records or knows about this car. And have seen that maybe 3 of these cars where built by yenko. Come on you east coast members, take a look at this car for inquiring minds. Roger

[Chevy454]

As of a couple days ago, Warren did NOT have anything on this car...

[jfkheat]

Rob, I saw a post on another site that said you were sending someone look at the car. Any truth to that?
James

Copy of the message:

OK, I e-mailed the guy and this is what he had to say.

Hi Dave,



Actually AAEML is an advertising company that puts the ads together on our clients own ebay accounts. If our clients never sold anything in the past they will have a zero feedback. I do have concern with this car and that is why Rob from the Yenko club is sending somebody out to check out this car. He said that he is not sure even after I sent him all the numbers. I don’t know if my client is on the up and up or not but I will in a day or two. If this is a real L-88 it is worth every penny that my client is asking, I will forward the results of the Yenko’s club examination of the car to all who have left me feedback, both positive and negative. I hope you are wrong but I will accept the consequences either way.



Thank You for your input,

Tony

[Chevy454]

We spoke to Warren first, he said he didn't have anything, so now I'm tyring to contact a couple members about checking the car out. As of now, all I know about the car is what everyone knows, which is from the Ebay pictures...

[Jeff H]

I'm probably 10 minutes from this guy if he really has the car in Trenton, NJ. I just have no interest in the car even if it was priced at a sane price. If someone wants me to try to take a look at it, then give me some things to look for and I'll see if the guy will let me stop by.

[Supercar_Kid]

I find it hard to believe there is anything "Yenko" about this car. The ad is full of bogus info, and all in all it just doesn't add up. The seller claims it's "original matching numbers" but if it's a Yenko installed L-88 how could it be? Also, if it's factory installed, and has only 7500 miles on it, why switch to a '68 alternator mount, paint the block blue, and remove all signs of anything being period correct from the engine?

There's not one hose clamp, bolt, nut, anything under there that looks like it's been there since '69. Even the 427 flagged air cleaner is an obvious modern era dime store unit. By the looks of it, I wouldn't say this 427 was put in by anyone in 1969, let alone Yenko.

The obviously falsified "documents" including a crude photocopied, entirely incorrect in every way window sticker and "Yenko stamped" owners manual hardly make it a bona-fide Yenko car. To me, they only add to the questionability of this car and it's owner. If the car was anything, even a "regular" non-Yenko COPO, why would the owner refuse giving out the rear end codes etc? The car looks like it could be a COPO, but again, why not just advertise it as such and get the honest money it would bring?

So many things about this car just don't add up. The description claims it's been in "it's current state for many years" which seems to me like an obvious cover for the fact that it was probably recently striped and Yenko badged. To me, the Yenko stripes and emblems are look noticeably "fresher" than the rest of the car. Also, if it was always a Yenko...where are the extra holes in the tail pan for the 427 emblems? Why fill those and drill new ones dead center to put a flat emblem on an angled surface? Where are the fender 427s and why are the fender crests lower than any other I've ever seen? Why paint a "properly stored" 7500 mile car a different color and replace the original stripes with sad looking fatty repros? Why pitch the original Yenko emblems in favor of fresh Taiwan repros, while the rest of the car remains "untouched?" It just doesn't make any sense to me, other than if you consider the car a fake and assume they were added to bring in the big $$$.

Best case scenario...the car is a real COPO from who know's where, and back in the 70s during it's racing heyday, it got an L-88 crate added in place of it's L-72, or maybe just aluminum heads added to the original #'s block, which would support the #'s matching claim. Then, sometime after people became more aware of the significance of Yenko cars, and someone read the 1987 MCR interview article, a regular COPO was mistaken as a one off Yenko L-88, was repainted blue and badged as such. But even that is tough to belive judging by the emblems and stripe kit used, but that's about the most believable story I could swallow given what I see in the pics today.

Anyone else just plain put off by this guy's ebay story...and blatantly fake documentation?