super car

[TimG]

Steve, was your car in that July 1982 full page add that Jerome placed in Hemmings? I still have that original add at home.

[SBR]

Tim, I am not sure, he sold the car in 1985 to a Bloomington Gold judge who then restored it. This was before preservation was promoted as you know and cars had to be in as new condition to do well. I have pics of it before it got restored, the car would have easily benchmarked! If you could scan and email the ad to me I would really
apppreciate it.

[olredalert]

------Tim,,,The no.1 GS was sold out of Texas to us at Classic Motors in 1977/8. We restored it with some help from Tom Turnas from Detroit who did the chassis and located the 377 c.i. aluminum small block and the side-draft Weber 58s. Tom worked at the Tech Center during the day. You could stick your whole hand down in one of the barrels of a 58 Weber. We restored it red with red gut because the only person on earth who wanted it at the time was Jerome. Jeromes favorite color was, you guessed it, RED!!! Even then we had to take about twelve cars in trade. I remember a Fly Yellow Daytona flop top was one of them and the maroon low mile 396 roadster that Krughoff ended up with was another.
------Those were the days ..........Bill S

[69 L88]

Did the 65 Shelby Daytona race with the 63 Grand Sports Corvettes ? they build the same number of Shelbys as Grand Sports didn't they ?
should be the same value ,

[69 L88]

The #1, 63 Grand Sport & a 69 ZL1 Will be at the last Bloomington Gold Special Collection this June

[AutoInsane]

Anyone have any more info on Jerome Shinkay? I am assuming he is a significant collector. What other cars does he or has he owned??

[olredalert]

-------Jerome lives in Janesville Wi. and has been out of collecting for a long long time. He has or at least had a string of truck stops and had up to and maybe more than 50 cars at a time. Many, many of the cars were sold to him by my old boss. He owned, for instance, the twelve mile L/88 before Jim Krughoff and Dave Burroughs bought it from him. Hes a great guy to hang with and has a son, Sean who, the last I talked to him, owned a very good restaurant up around there........Bill S

[camaromb]

Bill,
When I tracked the owners back to Wi. on my Yenko Camaro the second owner was Jerome Shinkay. I called him back in the mid '90's thinking he would have some great pics of the Yenko. He told me he had 70-80 cars back when he owned my Yenko in the mid '70s; 7-8 Yenkos, Nickey Camaros, L88 vettes etc. He also owned the black '67 Yenko Camaro and original owner Bill Hunter's orange Yenko (1 day owner!). He must have had one of the most impressive collections at that time.
Mark

[SBR]

I remember talking to Jeromes son about my car a couple of years ago and while he remembered it he said that he had 50 or so cars and most were unrestored low mile examples. I wish that I had a time machine LOL.

[69 L88]

How many 65 Shelby Daytona did they make ? how does that compare to the Corvette Grand Sports in value ??

Mecum has some of the best cars at one auction i have seen , At his Indy Auction