Yenko Camaros (1969) - Two! - Lemont, Il. 1969

[Quick85]

Bet you're wondering what's behind that subject line. Since
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, I'll just jump in.

I grew up in Lemont, Illinois in the '60's, for a small town
(maybe 3000 people) it was a big car town with a great
cruising scene. Anyway, in '69 two fellows from town both
managed to purchase Yenko Camaros. They didn't do it together, it almost seems like dumb luck was behind it.
Both cars were yellow with black vinyl tops. I don't
remember how long they both kept them, but you really didn't
see either one very often. Maybe they stuck them away for collector purposes, but that's doubtful. We drove our cars
back then. Both cars were in a minor accident (with each other!)

I guess what I'm getting at is I wonder what became of the cars. Does someone have sales records of Yenko cars? Would
buyers names be helpful in tracking a specific car, or am
I simply asking a dumb question? I'm not really worried about the current location of the cars, but I guess I was thinking if someone in the area had one of the Camaros and
wanted a little (useless) history behind it, it would be fun
to talk about them. I do have the names of the owners, we
went to high school together and hung out at the same
Dog 'n Suds drive in.

[DarrenX33]

For the sake of asking. Did they have the typical Yenko striping or did they have the SS fender striping?

[Mr70]

I think there was a Douglass sold DY 427 Camaro for sale in Lockport with some damage in the early 80's,just off Rt.171 & 167th.I went to look at it,but don't recall any sYc stripes and remember the man saying it was too expensive for him to want to fix,or something like that.I thought I saw it listed in Hemmings Motor news if I remember right..

Lemont has some real true blue car guys who put the cars first & still holds one of the best weekly car cruises around today during the summer.
Dog'N Suds..Welcome.

[olredalert]

-----Were both these cars bought from Jack Douglass Chevrolet??? I do know one of the past owners (not original) of a yellow J/D Yenko. By the time he got it the car it had no vinyl top and Im not sure if it had one new or not. My friend found the car in relatively bad condition in Downers Grove in app. 1980/81, and proceeded to restore it. The car may or may not have been delivered with the outside stripes as well. They may have been removed early on to try (probably unsuccessfully) to give the car a little sleeper attitude!!! He was a service writer for J/D before he came to work for Classic Motors, and is still around today.......Bill S

------Rick,,,You posted while I was typing (and correcting). I think you and I are talking about the same car. My friends name was George Weathered. He put the stripes back on the car when he restored it. He also underwrote the first reproduction of the "Yenko" emblems that I had heard about at the time and retailed some of them as well as sold them to several vendors.

[Quick85]

They both had the typical Yenko stripes. I'd forgotten all
about Jack Douglass Chevy. If I'm not mistaken, they were
up on Ogden Avenue in Hinsdale. I can't honestly say, but
I'm supposing that they were purchased there.

The owner of one lived on 171 where 127th Street runs into
it in Lemont. Knowing the owner, he may very well have
turned it into a drag car.

Yes, the Wednesday Lemont cruise night sure draws them out.
I remember going when it first started up and thinking "Where did all these cars come from?". Were they really hidden in garages? Lemont had more than its share of
muscle. One Nickey 427 Camaro SS, three Brigance 396 Novas
and a couple of Brigance '69 396 Chevelles, plus a wide assortment of everything else including that maroon dual
quad '68 hemi Charger out by the refineries. In the funny car photo section here I posted a couple of photos of my
buddy's '65 awb Coronet, so yeah, there was some muscle in
Lemont.

When I mentioned the accident in my initial post, it was a
case of one rear-ending the other at a stop sign at the
Dog 'n Suds. You had to be there to appreciate how ridiculous the accident was. Anyway, thanks for the replies.

[Mr70]

That's right it was 127th,not 167th st.

[Quick85]

Alright! Now who's got that car? Did someone buy Ted's car,
restore & keep it, or has it gone thru a handful of owners?

[PeteLeathersac]

[ QUOTE ]
...Does someone have sales records of Yenko cars?...

[/ QUOTE ]

Cool story!..
Did you check the Vin listings..there's at least one DY Douglas sold Yenko car noted?.

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...ge/0#Post76004


~ Pete

[Quick85]

Pete, thanks for the input, too bad I don't have a vin.
What are the odds that two identical (to the eye) yellow
Yenko Camaros would be bought from the same dealer and end
up in the same small town, and then be involved in the same
accident? I'm not making this up!

I'd like to post the owners names just in case, but think it best not to. On top of all this, we had a red
small block Yenko Nova ten miles away in Bolingbrook, Il.
I got the exhaust manifolds off of it for my own Nova in
'72.

[William]

A friend owns a Daytona Yellow/black vinyl 69 Yenko Camaro that was sold by Jack Douglass. It is a Canonsburg car, purchased in Iowa in the late '80s. Unusually optioned for a Yenko.

Sound familiar?