67 (YENKO) baldwin motion identification question

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Excellent question!

[sYc]

Credit goes to Rob for the question. I did not have an answer for him, so I thought I would throw it out there and see what others thought.

[Jeff H]

I would tend to think it's the other way around. He bought the car, not the paperwork. The fact that the paperwork is messed up means the situation needs to be corrected. As long as the original paperwork(title) for the car is not listed as a stolen vehicle, there's no reason he shouldn't be able to get the correct title issued for the car. If there's a 6 cyl Camaro driving around with the Yenko VIN and title, then that guy could be in trouble as well. I tend to think the car may never have been titled if it was built to be a race car from day 1. So somebody swapped tags so they could sell it with a title. I'm a little surprised they took the trim tag off though.

[berger]

Well here's the deal, it now has a Ma. title w/ its real vin, all numbers we ran through registry cane back clean, they allow you to title it and own it as long as its clean and you pay any back sales tax on it which we did, I got it from a Ma. dealer licensed, in this state dealers can sell cars w/o a title, the responsibility is on the private party to title it and pay sales tax, we never titled it because we never thought until now we were going to restore just use it as parts for another. The dealer actually bought it at auction or the previous owner whose cancelled ny registration from 1980 we found in the glove box, the stamp says invalid when used in conjunction w/ the affixed # s. The car comes back clean twice now on all #s associated with it, it appears it never had a title, simply raced, parted out along the way including tags, it appears now that the dealer has the orig race motor w/ dual quadsand L88 heads, he also may have the trim tag, he collects the good stuff from cars and sits on them, we hope to go over next week to finally see what he really has, he doesn't have the vin plate, that was there when he bought it and at least the previous owner in the late 70s, I have recently got in touch w/ that owner's dad in ny, I hope he can get me in touch w/ the son and possibly he can explain where the vin tag went.It appears he owned it between 77-80, and vince emmy owned it in 70-71, I'm one owner away from connecting the dots, Vince is trying to go through old paperwork to see if it had tags then I would think so but you never know, he did say he bought the car off a drag racer who only used it as such, it appears the car is exactly in the same shape as when he had it in71' minus the motor but we've located that we think, just don't know if the dealer will part w/ it, He has 6 427's from the late sixties amongst other goodies, I know another guy locally got 5 66/67 427s, some guys just sit on them , won't sell or trade, both seem to be old school drag racers so they now what they have. I still believe the car came w/ another from Rudys' auto in springfield in may of68' two yenkos for 3000, that's a good price seeing both were about 9 mths old, so I think both were dragged in late 67, and by spring 68' must of had about everything blown on them except one motor, well we're a lot closer to getting it all together, past owners have all been real helpful so far. It also appears these 2 67 yenkos traveled w/ each other from at least 68-81 into Ma. by way of ny, both orig. sold at central chevy in springfield Ma. In the end I hope to possibly find out the fate of this other yenko stablemate, obviously someoneelse nearby has an old race car too that they don't know is ayenko...Registry said I can hold the title on her as is, but if I want to put her on the ropad I'll have to get a registration which means I'll need tags, they can either give me reconstructed tags or I can hold out till I possibly track down the old ones, actually they don't care about trim tag just vin tag..I should know a lot more of her history the next two weeks. Thanks to all for your help and leads..

[berger]

front sway bar measures 15/16 not 13/16 as found on ss427s, but I believe the bar found on yenko race prep cars, does anyone have any literature on actual bar used on 67 yenkos, or 68s as it appears as a may car it did not ship till august, thanks ,

[Stuart Adams]

After reading all the posts - I need a drink!!! I hope there isn't a quiz at the end...

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I can't seem to follow it either, pour one for me as well!

[berger]

I'm buying the round if any one can figure this one out!!

[Jeff H]

It's easy, Berger has a Yenko, but was it a Dick Harrell Yenko or a Yenko that went through Dick Harrell's shop or a Motion modified Yenko? At least we know it's not a Nickey Berger Motion Harrell Yenko. Oh yeah, who's on first?

[berger]

did any other converters use a sway bar that big , are you talking possible trade?? to yenko network