1987 Muscle Car review article with Don Yenko

[bbdon]

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Follow Up
Muscle Car Review, April 1987

[SuperCars]

On page 3 of the post above, you'll see a sign on top of the camaro: "350 1969 Unit built". This started speculation at the time of that article, that there could be more than the 201 69 Camaros built.

But if you consider the word "Unit" literally, it covers Camaros, Chevelles and Novas. Still have a hard time getting up to 350 units when you count 201 Camaros, 99 Chevelles, and 30-37?(not all were 427)Novas in 69. Unless he was counting Jack Douglas *Yenko Cars in that number.

[hvychev]

Thanks bbdon. Also thank You T. Billigen who e-mailed me the whole thing yesterday! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

[Stefano]

SuperCars,
If one of your largest volume network dealers sold both the cars he purchased direct and inderect with your name on them, would you count them in your total or would you dismiss them in the count [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Steve;
It appears that Jack only ordered the first batch of cars from Yenko SportsCars, therefore he was not one of Yenko's largest volume dealers.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Ed would have more complete #'s, but my initial pass through the inventory only shows about 5-6 '69 Yenko Camaros going to Douglass, but 14+/- going to Hult, 9+/- to Francis, 7+/- to Joseph, 8+/- to Marshall, and whole lot going to Colonial!

[Stefano]

Marlin,
There appears to have been 25 or so Network Dealers in 1969. I don't have the exact count in front of me so help me if I am wrong. When you take out the cars sold by Yenko Chevrolet, You will see that Douglass Chevrolet Sold More than Most of the other Network Dealers, if your counting just the Direct order Yenkos.

They would rank in the top few, volume wise if you included all the cars sold to the public as Yenkos. (Camaros, Chevelles and Novas)

In 1969 Douglass was the Numero Uno seller of Yenko Cars in Chicago , no matter the yard stick "you" choose to use.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I can see where you are going with this Steve, I'm just offering an alternative point of view. There were a lot of dealers in the network, Douglass was an important one, there is no dispute of that. But to suggest that the number of units listed on that sign was including those cars sold as Douglass/COPO/Yenko's is a stretch beyond circumstantial 'evidence', that's all.

The sign behind Don was in a photo taken at Colonial Chev. in Norfolk, and I would propose that it has no bearing on the situation in Chicago.

Please don't give me this 'you' stuff, consider me as balance in these discussions, the other wing, ballast, whatever, don't make it personal [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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[Belair62]

JD also sold the most COPO cars in Chicago....

[ssl78]

Marlin,
I believe its a stretch in your mind. I believe it is more than likely that it does include those cars. If the numbers would have added up to around 330 to 335 you better believe certain people would have used that against the JD theory, because the numbers would have been higher if they were Yenkos. In Dons documents he stated there were 22 JD cars, it would be interesting to know when that car was sold, and how many were sold after that one. If anybody knows which car that was the build date to even see if it was after the JD cars.
201 99 35 =335 if there were around 15 additional yenkos sold after that one the numbers would work out. At this point it seems more likely he counted them than not. Just my opinion.
As for how many PA Yenkos JD sold its hard to tell I know of two he sold which have paperwork saying JD sold them, but on Ed's list they come up as Yenko selling them.