Gold Yenko at Mecum sets record

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Originally Posted by TarheelRyan

I bought the engine from Jeff Boone a couple of years ago. Both Jeff and I contacted the family about the engine, but they were not interested. Another interesting note about the car, Jerry MacNeish noted the car's original BE rear axle is now the earliest BE rear axle in his database. I was going to post a complete copy of Jerry's report and hundreds of other historical photos that Cliff had accumulated over the years to the Yenko Facebook page, but decided I didn't want to deal with more garbage comments and deleted the post prior to Admin approval.

The 11-19 BE rear axle was used in several 01B Yenkos and some ZL-1’s. It is considered the earliest known date for these cars.