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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]