1969 yenko chevelle on ebay

[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?

[ss427copo]

Here's a pic of the pass. door jamb on my Camaro that I guess was just part of the "pressing process" at GM when the door was built.

[CopoCrunkus]

Question, Was it common for the Window Stickers to have typo's as this one shows a Paint code of 19-19, yet the Trim T ag shows the correct 10-10 for Tuxedo Black.

[camarojoe]

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Question, Was it common for the Window Stickers to have typo's as this one shows a Paint code of 19-19, yet the Trim T ag shows the correct 10-10 for Tuxedo Black.

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Read above posts... this window sticker is 100% fake, there is nothing in "common" with this and an original one.

[CopoCrunkus]

Thanks Joe,
I Read the above posts,Just trying to show that they couldn't even make a fake correct.

[rich p]

The owner called me a month ago with some killer low mile cars and said he new Tom very well and that Tom new about his cars.So I gave him some credit.Surprised he doesnt chime in cause he must have gotten my # from this site.
Guy even out talked me on the phone(LOL) but talks alot of BS.Alot of BS

[Chevy454]

Tom who?

[rich p]

Tom Clary

[Jeff H]

Looking at the auction listing again, he lists the engine code and the serial # but I think he misread the 5 which is probably an S. So TO501 IR 185418846 is probably 18S418846 which would make it a 68 Corvette 427/435 engine. No L88 and no original aluminum heads. Obviously no the original engine to the car.

[JoeC]

I wonder if they looked for a buildsheet. That would tell what it is and what dealer it was shipped to.