1969 Yenko Nova

[William Dyer]

The reason they are on the sYc list in the first place is that "special things" were done to them that made them come off the factory warranty list.

They had to transfer them to SYC in order to take Yenko Chevrolet off the hook in case someone went to the district manager saying "hey I bought this 69 Nova from Yenko Chevrolet and when it pitched a rod after 1 month, I took it to Joe Blow Chevrolet in Pittsburgh and it has a 427 engine in it. I want another 427 engine put in it."

Yenko Chevrolet would be breaking federal law and their GM agreement by swapping out engines.

So they made Yenko Sportcar Conversions to swap engines that they couldn't do at Yenko Chevrolet.

When the 69 COPOs came around, Yenko kept up the notion that they converted them to keep the COPO ordering a secret (though it came out anyways).

William Dyer