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

[Schonyenko2]

Do you remember the deuce owners name. Greg Schram maybe?

[FASTONE]

Rich Maksym, owner of Coast to Coast has a documented DY Jack Douglass

[Quick85]

William, not familiar at all. I lost touch with both guys
in the early '70's.

As far as the Nova goes. I don't remember the guy's name. It
was a friend of a friend deal. He had headers on the car and
I needed stock manifolds. If Greg is in the area of, say,
57-60, it could very well be him. I just remember being slightly jealous at the time that this kid had this new
Yenko and I'm driving a '68 SS.

[LITTLE TOMMIE]

here's a link to a J D yellow yenko
http://www.coast2camaro.com/index.php?n=car&car=54

[Quick85]

Intersting story Tommy, but who the devil was the original
owner? And who wrote the article? Do I assume that it was
someone affiliated with Coast to Coast Camaro? This is
getting to be fun, but I don't want to call there and make a
monkey of myself if they know nothing about it, but I just
may have to.

Now the plot thickens. I just took a small break from this
post to check my local phonebook. One of the two fellows
I was thinking about was listed so I gave him a call. I
hadn't talked to him in 38 years! Anyway, he said no, he
didn't buy one, he bought a '70 Chevelle SS instead. He
confirmed that the other fellow did, indeed, have one. As
for the second car, I'm now at a loss. Well, maybe someone
out there will read this and say "Hey Mitch, that was me!"

[jeff morocco]

if im not mistaken, the original owner of the coast to coast camaro's name is tim perry. my dad bought his jd chevelle the same day tim bought his camaro.

[66 L78 ragtop]

Speaking of JD Chevrolet, did you know that he managed to order 425 hp rated 66 L78 Chevelles, Check out his Ad
I spoke to him and sure enough, he received 25 or so of these cars...

[Unreal]

Was it simply a sticker change? I thought the L78 Corvette was exatly the same as the L78 Chevelle, but with free flowing Corvette-only manifolds. (plus it was a Corvete, so of course it could have higher HP.)

[66 L78 ragtop]

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Was it simply a sticker change? I thought the L78 Corvette was exatly the same as the L78 Chevelle, but with free flowing Corvette-only manifolds. (plus it was a Corvete, so of course it could have higher HP.)

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The sticker was indeed changed but reflected a 425hp output rating at 6400rpm as opposed to the 375hp rating which was established at 5600rpm...The HP changes occurred as a "trickle down" effect after the feds imposed a weight to hp mandate on GMs flagship Corvette. As you stated, the corvette had to maintain its superior hp rating and therefore a decrease in the vette hp rating meant a decreased hp rating for everything else.

The L78 Vette and L78 Chevelle had similar engines but not identical. You are correct in that the exhaust manifolds were different...But in additon, the pistons, the cams, the heads, the intakes, the carbs, and distributors were different as well.

The 65 vette L78 and 66 Chevelle L78 sported the same 4 bolt block, the same bore and the same steel forged crank...

[Unreal]

Thanks for the education. In 69, were not the heads, pistons, intakes, carbs etc the same, or were they different then, too?