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Originally Posted by turbo69bird
I would bet those items were added after the fact by grump and the rest working on the car.
My car had all those items added by the dealer & my car was ordered sound deadened seam seal delete through the Pontiac performance division liaison Tom Nell as were all Stephen’s cars. Some other dealer owned race Pontiacs were ordered “ lightweight “ this way. Idk that I’d consider them prototypes maybe just special ordered .
However the trans am prototype that engineering built to be the test Mule for the trans am I would call a prototype.
Just my 2 cents.
But either way this gold car was built “special” to race, hopefully win, and garner press. I’d suggest the additional badging would be for promotional purposes so it’s in all the pictures easily recognized as an yenko 427 and it’s bold and easy to see.
Either way it’s super special and a really cool car.
My point of this is that a prototype is usually something built to be the basis for a line of cars and is built up front of that
run to be the test case.
Ok so I’m kind of seeing now that even though it was 17th vin it could have been converted by yenko first ? Damn this yenko stuff is confusing ��
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Yes, confusing ... but we're up for the challenge
Well, the car was definitely "prepped" with the items mentioned (headers, spring clips, scattershield) in Canonsburg.
From the SS&DI article:
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Before we get to the test, we'll fill you in on some of the particulars that made the whole deal possible. One of the Yenko organization's associates, Dick Williams, was responsible for the project. He saw to it that the car was prepared (just the things that we've so far mentioned) and then drove it from its Canonsburg, PA home to York US30 Dragway, SS&DI's newest acquisition."
The more I learn, the more it makes sense to consider this car to be the Yenko Drag Car prototype for 1969, rather than the Yenko emblem car prototype for 1969. As such, it doesn't have to be the first '69 car that Yenko added emblems and decals to ... it just needs to be the first '69 car that Yenko prepped especially for drag racing.