1969 Yenko Nova

[Schonyenko2]

I kinda like the prepurle 57.
Question: Wasn't Yenko a licensed manufacturer of cars? Starting with the corvairs that he raced didn't he have manufacturing status? That being why his cars were called Yenko stinger corvairs, Yenko camaros, Yenko novas, etc. Is it possible that this status played a part in where cars were slotted, and documented to? ie:converted, bought for conversion, slated to convert, but not converted, or dealership cars.

[Kim_Howie]

I really think that Yenko's statement about the Nova's was for covering his a$$. The camaros came COPO factory warrenty and liablity. Whereas the nova's where all his baby. JMO

[Kim_Howie]

Now this is B/S Nova

[Chevy454]

Where is that Howie? Looks NHRA so it ain't Cordova...[until this year!]

[Jeff H]

Did most of the converted Novas get the side stripes? I can't see any in that vintage picture but obviously that car could have been repainted at any point with the sponsor stuff on it.

[Mr70]

This looks like our own Route 66 Raceway in Joliet Il.

[Kim_Howie]

You Win, Jolliet!!

[Salvatore]

That is a good runnin DIV-5 car!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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Did most of the converted Novas get the side stripes? I can't see any in that vintage picture but obviously that car could have been repainted at any point with the sponsor stuff on it.

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This is the only 'old-school' picture that I have seen of this car. However, we have no reason to believe that this car did not originally come with the stripes, there are a few eyewitness accounts of seeing the car locally with the stripes on it. So, although they are missing in this pic, we believe it was originally striped.

Were they white or black stripes?

[Kim_Howie]

We do all right