December '01 feature car

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Rob;
I would also assume that it would be James Spencer. James was reportedly from Chicago where his father owned a Packard dealership. Also, he was involved with the Span Inc. deal. James was the salesperson who wrecked a Cortez Silver Demo Deuce by nailing a bridge abuttment, flipping the thing over totalling it. It is still titled to Yenko Leasing. The word was that he had a stroke while driving, but other reports suggest a dui!

I'm not touching the last statement either!
M

[NWYENKO]

Darn it!! I already started pulling off the stripes to see if it would make a difference.
Do you think superglue will work to reinstall?? Jim

[Stefano]

I don't know about Super Glue, but I do dab a bit of clear on each of the stripes edges to keep them in place.

[copo9566aa]

Very nice car Pete.

Sixties muscle. I was not taking a stab at the Douglas cars. Fact is though, they will never be able to be documented. In fact, I bet more pop up that were not real to begin with. My opinion is that if they are not on the inventory list they are not "yenkos". Period. They do have a unique history nonetheless. But I would venture to guess that if a person had 80k to spend on a yenko camaro, the douglas name attached to it would not be enough. Rarer maybe, but more valuable, no.

[Belair62]

HMMMM....what do we call a Yenko Chevelle from VV Cook Chevrolet

[sixtiesmuscle]

Well "Yenko", if it wasn't a "stab", what was it? I'm glad it's only your opinion. Fortunately, we all have one. You know the rest of that story. Now, I suggest that somebody with $80,000 won't be buying a fresh, done right Yenko Camaro of ANY kind. In fact, anyone having one they will sell at that price, please email me ASAP! If one of the 198 Canonsburg cars is worth up to 100,000 in today's market, why wouldn't a comparable Douglas COPO, SOLD new as a Yenko Camaro, by the authorized Yenko Dealership for all of Chicagoland, be worth at least 80? Fresh, properly done COPOs are in the 75 range right now. The Douglas connection has to be worth something. It's up to the market to decide what.
I still maintain that if they were sold as Yenkos to the original owner, any subsequent owners are justified in presenting them as authentic Yenkos without people referring to them as "clones" or "fakes". Oh yeah, that's IMHO!

[Belair62]

It wasn't an opinion it was a question.

[Stefano]

Please correct me if I am wrong. My best count says we have 6 1969 Douglass COPO Camaros and one 1969 COPO Chevelle accounted
for.
We know that two of the original paint Camaros had Yenko Stripes and the Chevelle still has original paint and stripes.
We have the best source of Documentation available, Jack Douglass himself.
Now we have "estate documents" which verify the number and his authorization to sell these Douglass COPOs as Yenkos.
Many of these COPOs stand on their own merits. They are low milage, unmolested and matching numbers COPOs. These COPOs will withstand anyones scrutiny.
I certainly would not state that these cars
are undocumented. Far from it ,in my opinion.
Douglass Yenko COPOs have not been fully tested in todays market. While some have known the info.,most of us are still learning.
The Douglass COPOs are some of the most highly optioned COPOs ever sold to the public.
This will be a strong factor influencing future prices and collectability.
When the COPOs themselves and the person who ordered and sold them are not satisfactory documentaion , then no car is documentable. Only its VIN number!
I would rather own a documentable COPO than a documentable VIN number. But, thats just me.

Pete, first off, I hope YOU don't take offense to my first post. I was merely poking fun since your nova is the only unstriped COPO nova on the planet, and the debate about the Douglas cars had just taken place. Pete's car has got to be one of the most sought after supercars.