yenko camaro

[Don_Lightfoot]

Sure I'm not alone when saying I have seen this car in person several times in past years and it is outstanding. If my memory serves me right, I believe Tom bought it new and then reacquired it many years later.

[GenOne]

I would love to own that car ...

[AutoInsane]

Should the value of this car be so high? I know it is a well restored low mile car with a really great story but... it is not a 427 Yenko. While I am sure everyone here would love to see it and own it at a fair price would someone pay up to own this novelty?? Should it not command a premium over a 68 396 SS but be worth far less than a 68 Yenko?

[MultiMopars]

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Should the value of this car be so high? I know it is a well restored low mile car with a really great story but... it is not a 427 Yenko. While I am sure everyone here would love to see it and own it at a fair price would someone pay up to own this novelty?? Should it not command a premium over a 68 396 SS but be worth far less than a 68 Yenko?

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Exactly what I was thinking when I read the sales ad description.

Yenko sold a lot of family cars too. When WE think of a Yenko Camaro, WE think of either an early transplanted engine car OR a later COPO that had the factory installed 427. Either way, a 427 car.

[bkhpah]

Maybe when "WE" think of Yenko's as 427 cars "WE" are not really a Yenko enthusiast. One of only a handful of Yenko conceived COPO Camaros is a special car, and certainly NOT a family car as you refer to it as. Any Yenko performance car has a special place in history. What a value is, seems to be for most the only thing they think about. I'll take any L/78 or 302 Yenko performance cars that nobody else doesn't want. When you show me the next 68 COPO 396 Yenko Camaro let me in on it first. IS a Mr.Norm Hemi car just another Hemi? I doubt it to most. Its the dealer name connected to the car. I imagine most MoPar collectors would rather have a Mr Norm car..BKH

[camarojoe]

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Maybe when "WE" think of Yenko's as 427 cars "WE" are not really a Yenko enthusiast. One of only a handful of Yenko conceived COPO Camaros is a special car, and certainly NOT a family car as you refer to it as. Any Yenko performance car has a special place in history. What a value is, seems to be for most the only thing they think about. I'll take any L/78 or 302 Yenko performance cars that nobody else doesn't want. When you show me the next 68 COPO 396 Yenko Camaro let me in on it first. IS a Mr.Norm Hemi car just another Hemi? I doubt it to most. Its the dealer name connected to the car. I imagine most MoPar collectors would rather have a Mr Norm car..BKH

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Well said! ..and I agree. Heck, I'd take ANY cool 60's Chevy originally sold through Yenko vs. one sold elsewhere...

[MultiMopars]

I think you have mis-interpeted what I was trying to say.

It is funny that you use the example of a Mr. norm's hemi car. It makes no difference WHAT dealer sold a car like that unless it has something to do with that dealer had something to do with it being something different than a car that any other dealer could have sold.

The difference with a Yenko conversion car or a Yenko COPO car is that they were the first ones to DO it or realize they could make such an order. therefore they were only done buy them. It is what the car actually WAS, not the DEALER that happened to THINK of it or do it.

Anyone that "buys into" the idea that a car is worth more because it was something that was order/sold sold by a particular DEALER that was also available from any other dealer that sold the same thing is just kidding themselves. There were dealers all over the country that sold those same cars.

Now if you were comparing it to something like a 1968 Mr. Norm's GSS (the car that set the stage for the later 1969 440 Darts) it would be a comparable example to a Yenko early conversion or later COPO that Yenko as well as a few other dealers that also ordered COPO cars it would be a like comparision.

The 1968 GSS was ONLY available from Mr. Norm's and therefore makes it something "special" with regards to the dealer it came from simply because he was the only one offering them. He had to commit to buy a minimum of 50 before Chrysler would build them.

[Smokey]

Someone should invite her to the Muscle Car and Corvette National show to help it get some great feelers out on it.

[Atuckman]

supposedly the car is off the market. Rumor is it traded

[AutoInsane]

Did the original engine ever get reunited with the car? Is the L88 still in it??