#215 This well-known 69 Yenko Camaro is N578812 and was sold new at Gates Chevrolet in Mishawaka IN to Bill Hunter. I believe everyone knows the story of how Bill purchased a Hugger Orange Yenko Camaro from Gates and proceeded to blow the engine the first night he owned it. The next day he went back to the dealership and replaced that car with this one. It is an unrestored car with 65K miles and still has its original engine. It still has its original window sticker and POP as well. It was raced with a number of other engines in it over the years. D. Beem purchased the car from Bill a number of years ago. Unfortunately, Bill died not long ago. I was trying to take some pictures of Dave's three Yenkos at the show, but whenever I walked past there was always a crowd around them. Dave was nice enough to take some time Saturday night to let me take some good pictures of them.
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