68 Camaro sold from Yenko Chev

[enio45]

Question to the members . . if a 68 Camaro was sold from Yenko Chev - would Yenko Chev have installed one of its dealer badges on the car. If so, what type of badge would that be and where would it be placed? Anyone have a picture? Is it the same as the Yenko Camaro converted cars??

Thanks for the feedback

[bkhpah]

I have seen two 68 Yenko sold/tuned Z/28 cars and one 69 Z. They all had badges on the front fenders. All way above the Camaro scripts, not below. Their would be no reason to think a promotional dealer emblem did not get placed on a Yenko Sports Car sold car...BKH

[elcamino72]

I remember seeing a late '60's early '70's Nova at a car cruise a few years back that was bought new in Canonsburg at Yenko and the car merely had a trunk emblem that said something ot the effect of "Yenko Chevrolet - Canonsburg, PA." You have to remember Yenko sold a lot of new cars, only a small fraction were the performance cars, not unlike what Tom Henry Chevrolet does north of Pittsburgh today (Yenko was south of the city).

[Chevy454]

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Their would be no reason to think a promotional dealer emblem did not get placed on a Yenko Sports Car sold car...

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BKH: probably a dumb question, but what would the *ordinary* Yenko cars/trucks have gotten...the 6-cylinder, low horse, non-Sports Car sold, grocery getters?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

From what I've seen, they received the black/chrome version. I've seen '70 monte carlos and pickup trucks with them, just oridinary cars sold from Yenko.

[SSJunkie68-69]

A friend of mine here in Maryland has a 68 Z28 that was sold at Yenko Chevrolet. He has no Yenko badges on his front fenders but has the red, white and blue Yenko badge on the tail panel slightly left of center if I am not mistaken. I believe a few people from here may have seen his car at the Camaro Nationals. It's been in the Bowtie Class for a number of years. It's a very nicely done Z28. I saw him a couple of weeks ago at our Camaro club event and he indicated he was thinking about bringing it to SCR10. Hopefully he will. Keep working on him Tom!!!

[camarojoe]

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From what I've seen, they received the black/chrome version. I've seen '70 monte carlos and pickup trucks with them, just oridinary cars sold from Yenko.

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I'm going to have to disagree Marlin, at least on a '68. While I do know Yenko used the black/chrome emblems on just about everything that came through the dealership from 1970-on, I don't believe that version of the Yenko emblem existed until '70. IMO, if a car from Yenko recieved any emblem(s) in 68, it would have been the red/white and blue painted version, with pins. (which by the way, was introduced sometime in 68) To answer Rob's question, I don't think Yenko put the red/white/blue pinned emblems on too many "regular" cars (ones not sold through Yenko Sportscars) in 68/69, but after they got the stick-on type in 70 they stuck 'em on everything, even used cars. Here's an example of a well worn black/chrome 70-up style emblem on the tail of an original paint '70 LT-1 Vette.

[tealz28]

I am the owner of the teal z-28 that was sold at Yenko. When I restored my car I asked alot of questions reference what if any badges the car would have had. BKH was the first person I called. He sent me a picture of a 68 Z from a show in the 70's or early 80's. This car had emblems on the fenders. I then talked to Kim Mason who was sales manager in 1969. He sent me a chrome badge and told me that it was correct. (not the red white and blue badge) I had this same discussion with Joe at York. I decided to stay with the chrome badge on the tail pannel. Joe may be right but until someone can show me an old picture that proves it I will keep my chrome badge on the car. Thanks guys for the invitation to the super car reunion. I will make it one of these years.