Going over details of the car before the car gets stripped.

We have found an unusual amount of original grey primer on the firewall down to the toe-boards.

Floor pan towards the rocker panels Gold Black and Grey overspray.

Original transmission tunnel blackout.

Rocker panel blackout over the original Olympic Gold Paint.

saw this photo says Indy 1970

That is not the same Camaro. That was Tom Burnell Camaro also of Indianapolis. He was partners with Rick Barratt his Camaro also ran under the name 'Motivation".

Few more details from disassembly. Original 309 "US master cylinder, 9204 brake booster dated 330 day of 1968. Inside door overspray, Heater box marking. Heater box inspection decal. Original Front fender. Blower motor dated December 1968

Love the detail pics. I wonder what the 341M designates? My heater box had 341E inspection sticker.

Not the greatest pictures as far as clarity but here are a few more vintage shots of the car from when the 2nd owner Max Gasser owned the car. I think they should have added some more stickers to the rear window.

Red Circled Decal on real glass. US National Participant Decal.

Found a twin to your car in a Madison WI junkyard 1981. Got the dash and BE axle for $75.

Wow the body numbers are one digit apart!

Thank you for sharing William. I remember us discussing that car. It had the earliest body number and mine had the second lowest body number. Of the 10 OG Yenkos ....we have located 8 of them. The 2 unknown (whereabouts) cars are the Joseph Chevrolet car from Ohio and the Karen Chevrolet car from New Jersey. We also have body numbers for 7 of the 10. Of those 7 cars all of the body numbers are very close to each other.

Info I have states the Karen Chev car N579385 was wrecked in a racing accident.

The car I found, N579434, was scrapped.

So looking at the numbers it seems like my car has the second lowest body number of the 10 and the second lowest Vin number of the 10. And as the research goes on the lowest body number car the Hult car is gone .

The Cliff Ernst OG car that was the drag test car from Yenko was not the first car ...in fact it is towards the bottom of the list of 10. The misconception of it being the first car is only because it stayed at Yenko Chevrolet while all of the others were shipped to the network dealers earlier.

Color of yenko stripes
 

Hello William,

This the list of cars:

578989 GOLD BLACK STRIPES JACK DOUGLAS 4SP HINSDALE IL
579034 GOLD WHITE STRIPES NANKIVELL 4SP INDIANAPOLIS IN
579281 GOLD WHITE STRIPES YENKO 4SP CANONSBURG PA
579308 GOLD BLACK STRIPES VAN T 4SP MISSION KS
579385 GOLD KAREN 4SP PHILLIPSBURG NJ
579434 GOLD HULT 4SP MADISON WI
579444 GOLD WHITE STRIPES STAUFFER 4SP SCRANTON PA
579462 GOLD JOSEPH 4SP CINCINNATI OH
579474 GOLD WHITE STRIPES AUSTIN 4SP NORWALK CT
587028 GOLD GATES 4SP MISHAWAKA IN

Anyone knows the information of the cars missing the color of the Yenko stripes of the
missing of these 4 cars.

Thank you for your support.

Regards,
Drew Papsun
[email protected]
203-847-4678

The Douglas car body number is 202472 and the Yenko drag test car body number is 202477

The order/shipping sheets are really interesting on the early cars...seeing some 01B cars not shipping until February.

something odd and interesting, the Cliff Ernst OG car and the Hedrick Yenko had 1967 Corvette 427 numbers bolted on to the Chevy bowtie on the back of the car.

Was the Karen car wrecked at a track in Wind Gap, PA. Was told a story many years ago about 69 Yenko that was wrecked in a racing accident there. It lost control and hit some trees that lined the track, got me thinking now it could be true since the car was from NJ.

Our db entry from 1999 states it was wrecked at Mountain View Dragway in PA.

Mountain view dragway was in Wind Gap PA. Was told about the crash around 1993 by a fellow that was there when it happened. Don't know what year it was wrecked, Wish I could go back in time and ask more about it but at the time figured it was just a bunch of BS

Original Pedal Assembly Dated Dec 26, 1968. The original Kelsey-Hayes proportioning valve Dated 2nd day of 1969.

This Decal was from Mattingly Automotive in Greenfield Indiana. Mattingly Automotive was owned by John Mattingly. John was a prominent engine builder in the Indianapolis area. He built many motors for Drag cars and Stock cars in the Indy area. He built the motor for the "Motivation" Yenko camaro. We have been in contact with his family to see if we can get a clearer picture of there old logo and hopefully more pictures of the 'Motivation" Camaro. John passed away in 2013.

Rocker black out over the original body color out of the FISHER side would be correct...
The question is DID Chevrolet Assembly paint the rockers Body Color (GOLD) or did they paint the fender bottoms black?

Dave Beems x66 yenko never had the fender bottoms painted black - it had the rockers repainted "body color" at the end of the Chevrolet line or if it escaped final inspection, at Yenko.

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Since Bill Hunter was the original owner ....I am sure there are original photos from 1969, 70, 71. To compare then and now...please ask him to help assist with photos. We would all like to see them.

I thought you’d like to see another Indiananapolis based car with the Mattingly connection, more prominent here on the MP Shakin All Over Camaro.

Very cool

Sonny Hager car. Great picture thanks for posting.

Yep. Its for sale here locally as a roller if anyone is interested.

A little diversion but that red 68 MP back halfed car was later turned into a D/Gas car with full chassis. Thought you’d like this shot.

Here is another picture we recently acquired of the car at Mid America Dragway aka Muncie dragway.

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Original Nankivell Cheverolet Decal.

Another picture of the Gold Yenko putting in work at the track.

Thanks for the detective work Matt. You can find a needle in a haystack!!!

Detective Matt has tracked down a couple more friends of the late original owner Rick Barrett in hopes to more info and possible photos of the gold hot rod. :3gears:

Cool Story about Rick Barratt's "Motivation" Yenko for you blue oval fans out there. I was talking to a old drag racer this past week and he mentioned that while he didn't know Rick Barratt personally he did in fact meet Rick at an machine shop in Greenwood Indiana back in 1970. This gentlemen stopped at this machine shop to pick a block that he had some work done on in the weeks prior. He had met Rick Barratt and his saw his Super Stock gold Camaro back in 1970. The Camaro was sitting in the shop with its hood sitting on the roof and while it sat there this gentlemen met another guy buy the name of Bob Glidden. Bob was finishing up setting the valves on the 427 Chevy in Rick Barratts Camaro. It wasn't till years later he went on to realize it was Hall of fame NHRA Pro Stock driver Bob Glidden. Bob was just a local drag racer from that area at that time. He said after they set the valves and pulled the hood off the roof of the car that Rick and Bob proceeded to, in his words, "Put the boots to it" up and down the road several times in front of the machine shop.

The 2nd Owner provided us with one of his Class Winner Trophies from Muncie Dragway 1972 and the original picture from that night. He also gave us a 50 years of Muncie Dragway book.

That is awesome!

Matt you get all the credit from these photos and these owners and all of the intangibles thank you so much for being a huge part of this car ..it only came alive with your passion for finding these folks and their memories as well as their treasures.

This needs to be updated with pictures of the finished car. I heard that it was at MCACN, but I didn't get to go this time, so I missed it.