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1969 Yenko Chevelle all original under 5K miles

I spoke with a buddy today who says he came accross a gentleman with a 69 Yenko Chevelle, an early Yenko campaign car with all of it's original equipment down to the tires. It apparently has been in a climate controlled environment since 1970 and has under 5K miles on the odo. Owner has documentation and the car even has the "win stickers" still on the back window. He claims the car is one of three built and that the other 2 are known to have been destroyed. Car is blue with white stripes. Please contact me if you can shed any light on the "one of 3" claim or if you have any interest.

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is that 'that' car in Trenton New Jersey owned by the lets say 'eccentric' guy....??

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Thanks. I won't even let the "Forest" hurt my feelings. Do tell.....

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What can you tell me about this car/ owner?

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I live 10 mins from the car and have known the car/owner for probably 20 years....I was working next door to his home and I saw the car back then..I assume its the same now... the car is an ex-racer..you could say a bit of a mess..The owner has always claimed the car to be an actual Yenko raced car that he bought from them once they were done with it. I believe the 1 of 3 is the L-88 option. I actually could have traded him for one of my cars that he really liked back then before the car was really even known. I knew he was kind of eccentric right away because he never would let me see the car again...I know he kept raising the price of the car continually...anyway, the car has been discussed before I believe on the Chevelle site...and apparently some very expert Yenko guys looked at the car. I'm not sure if thier opinion was that it is not a real Yenko..or that there is no proof...I forget...but I believe someone would have bought it if it was what it is purported to be...
please correct me if I'm wrong, ok...I'm goin from memory

someone here probably knows more or can link a thread about the car...

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here is the link from team chevelle...........

1 of 3 Y-chevelle

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We've been over this here about 5 years ago: click

The car was inspected, and the conclusion was that all of the paperwork is bogus and far from factually correct...I've talked to the owners on several occasions, as they seem to call every few months to remind us of the car. Warren D. doesn't have any paperwork on the car, wrong stripes, iirc it's not an L88, etc, etc...the problem is the wrong brother is running the show.

I keep telling the owner(s) they need to cut out the BS, quit billing it as a Yenko, do a little research and *then* they may very well have something, as there's a remote possibility it may indeed be a COPO Chevelle.

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Thanks for all of the info!!! You guys really know your stuff.

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Love those informative threads... but dosen't it say it changed hands for $300,000.00?!!! Same guy has had the car since 1972? 5000 miles and it's a mess? sad.

And what about this documentation..?

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/141...2bbigstory.jpg

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...but dosen't it say it changed hands for $300,000.00?!!!

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I don't think the car has changed hands within the last few decades? Several east coast guys have known the car for years and years...

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Same guy has owned this car for I'd say atleast 20 years unless it was recenly sold in the last year or two. Although i've not been out in a while, this guy always comes up to me at cruise nights and asks about my car that he always wanted to trade back in the day...and he always mentions his car...same story different year.....???

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It's that crazy story about a '69 Yenko sold out of the McMurray site! Did someone say 'run'?

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All you guys who have been following the saga of the '69 Yenko Chevelle "L88" will love this. I got a message from Michael a couple days ago explaining what he had and its "significance". This threw up a red flag immediately...as I really only buy and sell cars from the '30's through the '50's as well as sports cars and sometimes exotics, but never muscle cars. I did just list a '64 GTO on eBay so that must be where he found me. But with a car supposedly so "big", a person really should be talking to an acknowledged expert or a big auction house, not me.

Anyway, I called the guy back and, boy, what a mistake. He kept me on the phone for 35 minutes. His "story" for how he acquired it is a hoot, so I have to tell you all. He claimed to be a rebellious 17-year-old youth in 1969-1970 whose father was an old-school marine who fought in The Battle of the Bulge. His father sent him to Catholic school and tried to instill some discipline in Michael, but nothing worked (or so the story goes). All he could think about was goofing-off and cars, and one car in particular that he had seen in magazines and at the drag strip. The "one-of-three" Yenko Chevelle L88.

The nuns at the school had had it with this kid and called in the father. After much debate, the nuns told the father what he had to do. Buy the car for the kid (at a big-buck price of $6000 in 1970, which would buy two modest new cars), lock it away, and not give it to him until the kid got straight A's. Michael said it worked, and he went on in life to collect four patents and collect big royalties (for what he did not say).

This story was went off on several tangents such as the German strategy during The Battle of The Bulge and what is apparently his other great love, baseball. (At times, I would just put the phone down on the desk and do other work while he talked...since he never took a breath he never noticed that I wasn't listening).

The baseball thing diverged into the next tangent of the story...that Reggie Jackson once knocked on his door. He "told" him, "Look Reggie, I know why you're here. You're here for my car, and I'm sorry, I love you, man, but you're not going to get it". At this point, Reggie pulled from his jacket a baseball...a baseball he said was one of the three he hit out in his famous World Series game. "The car for the ball", was the offer (seems fair right? one of three for one of three), and although Michael was "tempted", bless his heart, he decided to keep the car!

His story now is that he must sell the car immediately to buy into a business...and if he misses out on buying-in this car will be off-the-market. If everything else he told me is true ;-) at least this is an obvious lie as he has had the car market forever.

But the fact is that everything he says is a lie and he knows it. This man is a criminal and looking for a stooge such as myself whose only knowledge of Yenko Chevelles is that they built 99 of them. He is also oh-so-foolish as he doesn't seem to realize that in this wired world in which we live, his story can be checked out and dismissed in two minutes by anyone who knows how to use a search engine.

When he calls me back, and I'm sure he will, this is what I will tell him: that if he is successful in selling the car for anything close to what he is asking ($1M by the way), that one of three things is going to happen: if he's lucky he will end up in civil court and lose everything he owns. More probably he will end up in Federal prison (and I'll be happy to testify for the prosecution). Or, if he really sells it to the wrong person, he'll end up in a back alley with a bullet in the back of his head.

This sort of scam used to be possible years ago, but not any more, and this guy just doesn't seem to get it. He entertained quite a bit, really gave me a lot of laughs for the last couple days, and for that I thank him. But in reality, he is purely a criminal scumbab.

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I see the story has changed significantly since I last spoke to him in '97 +/-!

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Wowwwww....I never heard some of those tales...he had told me the Reggie story yearrrssss ago though....

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..not as good as the floating hemi and the ZL-1 dually though!!