Yenko 615382 at Mecum Kissimmee

[purple panther]

what a shock its being auctioned. Wonder how they will represent it??

[JoeC]

I would think they would have a lot of documentation photos of the second restoration if they had collected all the original parts including both cars

[mrays]

The first time I saw this car was in 2005 at the Mecum auction near Chicago when it was sold as a part of Keith Hutson's Yenko collection. It was represented as a low mileage car with an older restoration. Steve Schultz bought the collection and all five cars were displayed at the Gilmore Auto Museum for a period of time. The next time I saw this car was at the Fall 2011 auction at Auburn where I took the pictures that are on my Supercar Photographs thread. It was at that time I noticed the trim tag showed it was an X66 car which I thought was strange since it was an 03B car with a body number of NOR219743. The car did have the X66 trim with the blacked out tail panel at that time which I thought only the 01B cars had. The car has been at a number of Mecum auctions since I saw it in Auburn and I show that it sold at Mecum in Dallas in both 2013 and 2017. In comparing the photos I have from 2011 to the photos on the Mecum website for Kissimmee it looks like the same car although it has been freshened up some. Particularly under the hood. I don't know who owns this car now or what happened to the race car that supposedly had the same hidden VIN that Tommy T. owned back in 2007. It would be cool if the old race car was actually restored and reunited with it's original VIN tag.

[EZ Nova]

So this car IS a rebody? Sounds like the original Yenko body was a race car and "all pertinent components were reunited", but NOT on the original Yenko body shell from 1969.

And to those who are not only smarter than me, but actually have info on this. WHAT would happen if the ORIGINAL YENKO RACE CAR BODY gets found, restored and comes to light? What happens to the guy who owns this car? Who gets ownership of the covenant YS9637 title?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Originally Posted by EZ Nova

So this car IS a rebody? Sounds like the original Yenko body was a race car and "all pertinent components were reunited", but NOT on the original Yenko body shell from 1969.

And to those who are not only smarter than me, but actually have info on this. WHAT would happen if the ORIGINAL YENKO RACE CAR BODY gets found, restored and comes to light? What happens to the guy who owns this car? Who gets ownership of the covenant YS9637 title?

Hidden VIN's trump the VIN tag. It happened here in PA many years ago, I was mere days away from being called as a witness to a lawsuit between two cars - one had the hidden VIN's and orig TT, the other car had restamped hidden VIN's, restamped TT and orig VIN tag. It was a messy situation, but in the end the rightful owner got his orig VIN tag back after the PA State Police physically removed it from the fake car, and unfortunately the fake car owner had to absorb the loss due to no fault of his own.... Sad, but true.

[Sean]

I would not buy it...................I would highly suspect the "Original body" will never be re-united....

[bergy]

here are the VIN and TT pictures from the car today.

[Tracker1]

That's a pretty fresh TT

[bergy]

$165k

[mrays]

I know the guy who bought it sure looked happy. So other than the VIN tag how much of the original car did he actually buy? I never saw any pictures of the original car in racecar form when it was purchased in 2007, but apparently there were photos of at least one of the hidden VIN's. At that time the entire drivetrain was gone and I believe it had a fiberglass frontend. The car at Kissimmee appears to be the same car that I saw for the first time in 2005 at Mecum Chicago. Both cars existed at the same time so it's not like they can say the racecar was restored and this is it.

Are there any known Yenko's after the first 50 that were X66 cars from the factory? I know there are a couple of 02D cars that are supposedly X66 cars, but I have never seen their trim tags.