WTF are these!
Yenkos prior to 1969 were built and developed by Don Yenko himself, but after 1968 Yenko went to chevy and had COPO cars delivered straight to his dealership under the COPO production article 9561.
Here is a little history that even shows a little about how Dick Harrell was even involved in these cars.
"In addition to the 427 Corvette engine, customers could pick from a long list of other hi-performance parts to be installed by Yenko's own in-house race mechanics, all of whom were part of Donšs racing team. The majority of these special built cars received a Yenko ID plate and Yenko badges, 427 emblems and a special fiberglass hood, patterned after the Corvette "Stinger" hood. As with the Corvair, Don employed a network of other dealers, including the likes of drag racing guru Dick Harrell in St. Louis, who was listed as Yenko's Mid-West distributor, and Fred Gibb (of ZL-1 fame) in LaHarpe, IL.
You could have purchased a spartan equipped Yenko Super Camaro back in 1967 for about $ 3,800.00. Not bad for all that big block horsepower shoved into the Camaro package. The exact number of 1967 Yenko Camaro's is unknown. The figure of 54 had been accepted for several years, but some collectors believe that that number may be closer to 100 cars.
With the success of the 1967 Yenko Camaro, Don had bigger and better plans for the 1968. It was clear that Yenko couldn't keep up with the demand for 427 Camaro's, so he approached Chevrolet about the possibility of getting factory equipped 427 Camaro's. Chevy was hesitant about this, but the management team in the "Special Projects Division" were eager to give it a shot. The General still had rules about no engines larger than 400cid in any intermediate or compact models. Supposedly, Don Yenko agreed to keep the program quiet, and it was thought that all 68 of the 1968 Yenko Camarošs had dealer installed engines, just like the 67's, but some collectors say the engines were actually factory installed. Others believe that only one 1968 car was built with a factory installed 427. The dispute will probably go on forever. However it went down, these discussions with the factory team eventually led to the birth of two special options for 1969, COPO 9561 and COPO 9737"
Here is the link to the info on the cars. http://www.musclecarcalendar.com/WeK...amaroYenko.htm
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those ******* are a work of art...would you try to replicate a de vinci painting? nope.
just my thoughts.
It is a special edition car that they are going to build 33 of in total. It is called the Dick Harrell car in celebration of not only one of Chevy's prolific racers, but also one of the fore fathers of Drag racing as whole.
Here is a thread to tell you more about them, and if you do a search for GMMG info you will find more.
Dick Harrell site
They will start at 80,000 and work there way up from there. If you are interested in one, when I was at the unveiling Matt Berger of Berger chevy who will be selling them told me they still have three left...but that was way back in may.
its super sweet, but damn, i'd just buy a yenko or some other collector car for that kind of money.





