1969 yenko chevelle on ebay

[Pantera]

Baldwin didn't have Joel do anything. It was the other way around. Joel took the order for the car (his advertising and then ordered it through Baldwin. Once modified and ready to sell by Joel, it was actually delivered by Baldwin with a 4 mo. Chev warranty on the motor only.)

Pantera

[Charley Lillard]

Time to drag this old thread up again as it deserves it. I had Mike the owner call me a couple weeks ago wanting me to ad the car to the Registry and he offered to send me the NICB proving it was delivered new to Yenko. I said I would look at it. He mailed me a document that referenced the NICB and also the New Jersey DMV Security Commission Investigations division. It looked odd and I showed it to a couple people who also thought it was odd. He said he wanted a letter from me to give to his Insurance co. Now I'm worrying about Insurance Fraud. Because of the possible fraud the NICB was contacted and given the vin.........

They confirmed the car was...:Charge to Dealer Yenko Chevrolet, 575 West Pike Street, Cannonsburg P.A.15317
Ship to: Oak Hill Motor Corp Inc
365 White Plains Road
East Chester, N.Y, 10707

The story I got was the orig owner was in Vietnam and ordered it from Yenko. He apparently took delivery at Oak Hill. We have no info on what if anything was done to the Chevelle but it has a black paint code. Common sense would make you think if he ordered it from Yenko he was trying to do something other than stock or he would have just ordered from his local dealer. Maybe Yenko just ordered him a COPO and had it shipped direct ? Interesting stuff.

[Xplantdad]

Neat!

[iluv69s]

Wowwwwwwww !!! Cool stuff Charlie !! I'll bet he wants 500k for it now.

Ok, so maybe I should have traded him years ago when he was always calling me to trade for my car?? ....... a black Yenko/COPO??

Brings up a bunch of questions now. So I guess Mike never sold the car for 300k back when?? He did not buy it straight from Yenko in 72?? He is claiming the Vietnam vet story now? or maybe he got it as a used car? Did he explain the old paperwork? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[JoeC]

did you get the NICB info from NICB directly?

Don had a magic pen for ordering cars and had some 1966 COPO Corvairs sent to Dana and had some special order 1967 Camaros sent to the Harrell shop. I heard that he also helped get special engines sent to race teams. So may have been possible to send a COPO Chevelle to a shop in 1969.

I wonder what kind of shop was at Oak Hill Motor Corp Inc 365 White Plains Road East Chester, N.Y, 10707. It was not far (about 10 miles) from Bryne Bro Chevy on Virginia Rd in White plains, NY who sold COPO 427 cars and Yenko cars.

When researching Bryne Bro Chev, I found they had relatives who were in auto sales in the same NY area.

When talking to Mike about this Chevelle years ago, I could never get an answer on the rear end code or if he had found a build sheet

[cook_dw]

Since the ebay ad is long gone does anyone have photos of this car. Definitely interesting story.

[L72copocamaro]

That's a step in the right direction at least. Hopefully he will ask for help...

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Pantera</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Baldwin didn't have Joel do anything. It was the other way around. Joel took the order for the car (his advertising and then ordered it through Baldwin. Once modified and ready to sell by Joel, it was actually delivered by Baldwin with a 4 mo. Chev warranty on the motor only.)

Pantera </div></div>

Whoa, haven't seen Larry's name in a while. RIP.

[Charley Lillard]

I heard from Mike again today, the owner of the car. He has someone inquiring about the car. Here is what I got last month from the NCRS on the car.

[WILMASBOYL78]

I never heard of that dealer before...didn't know there was a Chevy dealer in Eastchester, NY back in the day. I do remember a placed called Panda Pontiac in Eastchester...they were one of my customers way back when. Maybe they succeeded the Chevy store....

At one time there was a Westchester County Chevy Dealers Association...those were the days!

wilma