[Supercar_Kid]

I think a lot is being read into a silly sign from '69 and an interview from '87...that was conducted a full 20 years after Don had built the cars that are in question. The fact that the 350th unit built sign was photographed on BOTH a Camaro AND a Chevelle on the same day shows that neither car could really be THE 350th unit built, whether he meant to include '67s and 8's in the count, or Chevelles and Novas or whatever. Don was a bullsh*tter, this is pretty clear. Claiming he installed Yenko serial plates on all 69 cars, even saying he added headers, removed and upgraded the stock shocks and sway bars, claiming the Chevelles were SS396 engine swap cars or even suggesting that there were more than a few 427 Novas built in '68 are all statements that actual evidence of existing cars contradicts. Maybe he recalled incorrectly, I mean it was 20 years earlier. Maybe the 350th sign was just a marketing promo, or maybe it was made to impress the big whigs at Colonial Chevrolet, a sizable network dealer who Don wanted to make feel special. Maybe it was to fool the NHRA into thinking he was well on his way to builing enough cars for them to be race legal, or maybe it was just a made up number that sounded reasonable and gave Don a little ego boost. I've also seen Don's personal photos of Glen Campbell standing beside a Yenko Deuce in the Colonial showroom, which was surely a publicity deal. Don was a salesman, and he wanted his cars to SELL, whether it meant inflating a few numbers or having a country & western singer appear beside his product. I think Don was all about making a big to do about his cars, himself, his ideas, and rightly so, he was a revolutionary individual in a lot of ways, but I certainly don't think he was above stretching the truth a little. To take the numbers that he apparently claimed on a sign during the time he was actively building and selling the cars, or even the numbers he recalled some 20 years later and try to make them add up, counting *Douglass cars, Canonsburg cars, Chevelles, Camaros, Novas however you want to try is surely an exercise in futility. They just don't add up, cuz they're BS...just my opinion, I'm sure many will disagree. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bs.gif[/img]