1967 Yenko Camaro

[68TopStock]

Tom,

Thanks for sharing this early information. Interesting that Royal Plum was one of the colors, any found of this color? That is the original color of "Little Hoss". Another interesting note, is that Mills Chevrolet of Moline, Ill. one of the listed early dealers, is the same dealer my other 1967 Z28 came from. It was raced at Cordova, just a few miles north of Moline, which is about 100 miles north of LaHarpe.

[68TopStock]

Another early dealer was Shalla Chevrolet, of Detroit Michigan. An August of 1967 CarCraft "Straight Scoop" notice about Dick joining forces with Don Yenko mentions that Shalla received one of the first Yenko conversions.

[berger]

ken I just pm'd you.. I just spoke w/ a man who worked at shalla , he said not only did they sponsor the 67 L88 harrell/yenko car, but later bought it from dick in 68, his job was to take it to shows and later he bought it in 69 I believe w/o logos, it said shalla on side, and killer on lid, car was red L88 w/ dual carters on weiand intake, m22, and 4.88s in a frontload pontiac rear!!

[berger]

correction, yenko owned and campaigned the car in 67, sold it to shalla in 68 where this employee "used" it when he got the chance, it was run by the owner of shalla w/ their logos at local tracks and sold used in 69 w/o logos, shalla only sold yenkos in 67, no idea where the car went after that...

[Over Anxious]

[ QUOTE ]
ken I just pm'd you.. I just spoke w/ a man who worked at shalla , he said not only did they sponsor the 67 L88 harrell/yenko car, but later bought it from dick in 68, his job was to take it to shows and later he bought it in 69 I believe w/o logos, it said shalla on side, and killer on lid, car was red L88 w/ dual carters on weiand intake, m22, and 4.88s in a frontload pontiac rear!!

[/ QUOTE ]
Looks like you read that right from the Racing Pulse magazine
Shalla did buy that 427 car as it was and they campaigned it locally with our 67 L78 'Over Anxious' car.

Here is a bit of trivia for you guys. Does anyone know who actually drove the Red 1967 Killer L88 Camaro for Shalla Chevrolet??



Great board guys, I'm just finding about about this! I've been posting at Camaros.net for about a year now.

Joe

[berger]

hmmm..good one joe, my guess is the name as mechanic painted on side of edelbrock test car 67 camaro and also on side of the gene raines weber chevy sponsored 67 camaro, dick lannan or something like that I think , maybe

[JoeC]

I was told the 67 Yenko/Harrell Camaro may have come from Nickey or Bill Thomas and Harrell had it before he made is deal with Yenko.

[Over Anxious]

[ QUOTE ]
hmmm..good one joe, my guess is the name as mechanic painted on side of edelbrock test car 67 camaro and also on side of the gene raines weber chevy sponsored 67 camaro, dick lannan or something like that I think , maybe

[/ QUOTE ]
Good work, it was Dick Lannen.

There was also a second driver when it was under Shalla Chevrolet, any idea who he is?

[berger]

ah??? john jendza or something(tophat)? joe what was the real cubic inch that monster was running at that time? 496 (talldeck)3T marine, high nickel content??

[Schonyenko2]

Ken, I knew Mills was a Yenko dealer, but have never been able to verify that one went through the dealership. I did hear a rumor that the one they supposedly had wound up at Fred's dealership. All rumors from old memories.
Yes your white Z ran at Cordova. I seem to remember that it had an L88 in it at one time. I worked with the owner for years. A very unique individual to say the least. Schonye