Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Frank; I do not see the problem with this thread. At least it is related to the supercars, which is the sole reason this board was created. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

I guess if Don lied about the JD cars in the estate documents its possible but the evidence supports it happened. unless Jack lied about it happening and original owners lied and some one put holes in the tail panels of theese cars in the same place and the Yenko emblem just so happens to fit. Tom if you have the statements, tell us how many PA Yenkos did JD sell early on? How many PA Yenkos were sold by JD later in the year?

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Tom,
What I am saying is that the NICB reports and the inventory Sheets show Yenko Chevrolet , just as your three Yenkos prove (per the info you provided)and verify my point as well as the other instances which exist. The inventory sheets I have copies of show a selling dealer ,and in some cases it is not the dealer who in turn sold the car to the retail customer. So when someone counts the number of cars sold by a sYc dealer or by Yenko Chevrolet as they are listed on the sources we just referenced, you could be lead to infer that Yenko Chevrolet retailed more cars direct to the ultimate consumer than they actually did and that other network dealers sold less.


This is where they are not 100% accurate.


Yes,I have seen the sheets I referenced, as well as many other documents, if that is what you are asking? There are others who have original Yenko Documents and have shared them with me over the years. I certainly have not seen or read them all and doubt that I ever will.

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

My brother owns this original "350th Unit built" photo, along with the entire "proof sheet" of about 10 other photos from this same shoot that Don DIDN'T provide for the interview. What you don't know is that also parked in that same Colonial showroom was a 69 Yenko Chevelle, and they used the same sign on IT and took some photos beside that car as well... There are other "alternate" photos where they placed a "Yenko Sports Cars" sign above the other sign... Only ONE of all those photos ever made it in the 87 MCR article, so everyone assumes that this particular Camaro in question was the 350th unit built, and questions what it is meant, and draws way more into it than probably should be... I agree with Rob, Don Yenko BS'ed the whole 350th unit thing as a publicity stunt to show that he was selling lots of cars...Colonial was one of the biggest dealer in the network, and he and Colonial wanted to display the idea that they were selling tons of Yenko cars in their partnership... it benefited Yenko AND Colonial to look as "high volume" as possible. If you read any of the original Yenko documents (many have been discussed here in the past in other threads) Don was not usually very "accurate" in his numbers total, and his estimates ALWAYS seemed to be more than a few cars higher than what was "actually" produced... Such as the "500 Yenko Camaros built" statement in that interview... You can argue that one to the death too, interpret it 12 different ways, and put whatever spin on it you want, but the fact is, there were never 500 69 Yenko camaros built. There were never 500 Yenko Camaros built if you count all the 67s, 68s, 69s, The *Douglass cars, and even the 81 Turbo Z's. No 69's have ever surfaced beyond the original total of 201, which has since been dropped even lower to 198 after a recount... Don's statements and estimates were generally very high, and I'm confident that the "350th unit built" sign is probably just a number that Don pulled out of his head too. As a side note, if you look at this original photo closely, you can clearly see a rectangular "Colonial" dealer emblem plastered right in the middle of the rear spoiler. It doesn't show up in the magazine because the photo is too small, and the quality of the reprint isn't great, but you can definitely see it in the original 8x10" B&W photograph. Come to the US30 Show in July if you'd like to see the originals, and a ton of other cool supercar stuff! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Great info Supercar Kid, when was your brother's car built?

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Stefano, I am not sure if you were referring to the copo.com website showing Yenko Chev. as retailing more cars than they actually did. My car was shown on the website as being retailed by Yenko, but the original paperwork showed it being sold new at Colonial. I questioned Ed C. about this and he told me when he did not have the information of the retail dealer he used Yenko Chev. as the default until he received additional docuemntation.

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Stefano, I belive his brother has the photo, not the car. Of course I am sure Brandon wishes he had the car. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

As Marlin stated earlier, Douglas was not one of Yenko's bigger dealers. I show only 8-10 total Yenko (PA) cars sold by Douglas in '69. Several other dealers in Don's network sold more then this number. And, by judging by the VINs, most were early cars, but without Douglass info, who knows when JD sold them. I guess only Jack can answer that.

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

"MARKETING 101" ! double copo, yenko, whatever, to each his own --------------------theory! thats why baskin robbins has 31 flavors of ice cream, will anybody agree? never. i know where there were proven statments that jack was caught with one of don's many secretary's having cocktails (350 cocktails and an extremely large tab !) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

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JD also sold the most COPO cars in Chicago....

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Am very curious to know what records you used to determine this. Chevrolet, Jack Douglas, other ??