Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

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If there was a post about bottled water somehow the JD cars would be brought up.

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Belair, what kind of bottled water do you drink over there? I bet it's not as good as the crystal clear pure water of the North West. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Oh, but maybe they ship our water over there. You don't be putting stripes on that bottle now! Hmmm! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

John, I do not think anyone is calling JD a liar. More like questioning what/how he remembers from the past. And, in this hobby, this is not unusual. I have spent many hours visiting with various supercar personalities from the past, and how found all to be very honest and in sincere in what they say, but when compared against known facts, at times come up short. I have read more then one supercar personality interview , including, but not limited to Don Yenko's, that was "a little off". Remember, is was over 30 years ago when this all took place.

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

John,
The 'little segment' you are referring to is actually from your 'little' post! Way to make friends!

We have been over the big picture before, this little discussion is about a silly sign that some people are attempting to claim included the Douglass * Yenko COPO cars. Inherent in that claim is the basis of the original discussion, that Jack and Don had an agreement for Jack to stripe his COPO's as Yenko's. My contention is that the sign is insignificant, and cannot be construed to include anything more than a marketing ploy of some sort.

I am not calling Jack a liar, I'm simply asking for more solid proof. To me, his recollection of what happened over 30 years ago is insufficient. Don was a certified genius, and couldn't remember what he did only 17 years later during the MCR interview. The 'estate document' only states what happened, Jack used the stripe kits to make his COPO cars more saleable. There is nothing in that document about an pre-arranged agreement. I like paperwork, others can do without it, both positions are fine for the particular individual.

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

If we are talking Yenkos, then yes JD. If COPOs, I don't know. Maybe Nickey? They sold a few "hot cars".

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

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You see, I am sure JD was no different then any other dealer of that era. If a customer was willing to pay the $$$, it was built, including putting Yenko trim on ANY car they had in inventory. I do not feel that this is a stretch of the imagination to believe this happened.

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This may finally answer my question that has gone unanswered on here as to the 1969 LeMans Blue Impala with Yenko stripes I looked at in approximetaly 1976. Car was a 427/425 4-speed and was advertised in the Star Tribune. Could this have been one of JD's cars that he striped? I may never know. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
Rick

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Interesting. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Kevin we drink heavily chemicaled Lake Michigan water....the water bottles can be striped because there was a deal with King Neptune to allow it .Keep your yucky NW water...it's probably loaded with chemical fallout unlike our pristine lakes in the midwest. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

Charlies dog drinks California toilet water! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

This post has turned into a rehashing of the "Should Yenko trimmed Douglass COPOs be considered real Yenkos?" debate all over again. I think the number issue has become a round about way of arguing whether or not Don considered these cars as his own or not. It's obvious that Don Yenko didn't pay particularly close attention to the number of cars he was preparing himself, let alone ones that may or may not have been prepared at Douglass Chevrolet with or without his permision. Don was far more concerned with selling as many sYcs as he could than he was with counting each and every one, which may be why he didn't feel the need to add serial plates to the '69s or even partially why he made the agreement with Jack to allow him to produce sYcs on site. Fortunately Don Yenko kept pretty decent records of the cars he was converting at his dealership and selling and or transferring to other dealers, which is where much of the FACTUAL numbers that are accepted today have their origins. Were all Douglass COPOs sold in Yenko trim? Apparently no one knows for sure. But why try to group them together with the ones Don trimmed at his own Canonsburg dealership? I think if I owned a Douglass COPO and had some sort of believable evidence that the car was originally sold new with Yenko trim, then I'd restore it and show it that way, and explain that it is a unique instance in Yenko history where a COPO car was trimmed Yenko style by a network dealer, perhaps with permission, perhaps not, but sold to the original owner as a sYc 427 car. The unique colors and options only make them more unique. Trying to lump these *special cars in with the Canonsburg prepared cars only seems to be a way of making them out to be something they aren't. These are very unique and very desirable cars in their own right, whether Don accepted them as his own back in '69 or whether anyone else excepts them to be "real" Yenkos today, they are certainly an exception to the rule and should be recognized as such, don't look at an * as a badge of shame, look at it as a distinguishing mark or recognition that sets the Douglass prepared cars apart from the rest, for better or worse, that's to be determined by the buyers and sellers of these unique cars...dare to be different. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

Re: 1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko
 

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This post has turned into a rehashing of the "Should Yenko trimmed Douglass COPOs be considered real Yenkos?"

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[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif[/img] debate all over again.
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