That's why I love interviews with people back then.

Thanks and very much appreciated. Getting to go to these historic sites along with the original owner and to see the paperwork he got when the car was new is a huge luxury. I could not have done this without the original owner and the new buyer. We all had fun and I am glad to bring this to video here on KZfaq.

You are the best. I appreciate your comments and the help of Doug Perry and of course the original owner, John Weaver. It's not often we can talk to an original owner. Weaver recalled so much history that is brand new information. It is fascinating to listen to him talk about buying this Yenko new, his test drive, his drive with Don Yenko, and driving the car on the street and at the drag strip in 1968-69.

Too bad you could not get Mr.Weaver to add some of his stories about it on here, and to tell us why he would halfway tear down a car with just over 7000 miles on it !

It looks like he was in the middle of repainting the car.

Thanks Lane!!

Is John the great guy that put this car in boxes?

Yes he was. He was trying to fix the mess he created. He realized he messed up with the red color. You have to realize that this car wasn’t a rare care to him when he tore it apart. It was just a Camaro he bought from Yenko Chevrolet.

lane: why people can't grasp that reality is beyond me? my dad bought a 56 root beet beer brown nomad wagon back in the early 70's for a few c notes. along with 55/56/57 chevy's for a c note or 2,even a candy apple red tri power 67 goat 4 speed on the cheap.heck he gave me a 51 ford 2 door victoria.orig all white interior/white wall tires/chrome rims and orig green paint that sat in a storage for 20 years.uncle had 55/56/57/58/59/60 bel airs,people would give em to you if you fixed a motorcycle,tune up there car etc. before he passed he told about a 40 something harley low mile all parted in a crate,guy begged him to get it out of the garage for months.guys just got tired of there stuff quick back,families and what not.

For those who don't "buy it", guess what, you didn't buy it. Probably weren't educated enough about a rare car that was taken apart with all the documentation to know what it was. You have interviews with prior owner. etc. etc. etc. Probably the same people that take the free drinks at an auction. Pay 25% more than what a car is worth because their buddy is telling them to "hit it one more time" ! lol Great video!!!

You are right..fake

True, I have been writing one Rare Finds story a month in 3 (and ) magazines since 1991 and this Yenko is one of the cleanest and also one of the most documented that I have ever seen - Jerry Heasley.

@@thewriter2549 this car seems to be extremely rarer then the other yenko models

Thanks J.

With 7200 miles it should be immaculate condition. Should be a crime to treat a bueaty like that

Normal condition for a car taken to the track and raced.

Can someone tell me what an ORIGINAL MILE IS???? could they possibly mean ACTUAL MILES

Rollan Batts the mileage is actual which is also the same as original

And all B.S....

Now that's funny. I don't care who ya are, that there's funny.

I have an ORIGINAL Firestone spare from my 69 Z11. Will gladly sell it if you are serious.

You can drive one of the plastic totes around.

Perhaps he was paranoid about rusty floorpans?

Owner probably pulled the interior out of the car for weight-savings since it was a drag car. This would make it easy to paint the interior metal the red that you see. Does look like he's played around with it over the years and just never finished anything he started.

That was definitely an original red car..what's the vin say the. upper and lower color was. I missed it

BS because they didn't show any pictures? Lol okay man.

He's a scammer

Yes, very strange indeed. Something smells fishy

They picked the car up at a Sunoco station. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Right on ! Preserve it keep it inside and watch the value increase !! kICK Gas

For GM ...4 speed cars received the square traction bar....automatic cars received the round traction bar...but of course any assembly line production vehicle can have mistakes

Umm that's exactly what a Yenko Camaro is.

@@Kill-Dozer Some people just don't get it do they? Yenko's are not production cars. they were cars modified by The Yenko dealership. LOL Original poster needs to go back and look at his own post. There is the clue for him right there. Yenko dealer just modified the car but its not a Yenko?....lmao Original owner even said that was what he was at the dealer for. He wanted a 68 Yenko, but they were not being produced yet. Don Yenko spoke to him about a 67 camaro they had out back and they would gladly do the "CONVERSION" to a Yenko camaro on it. The conversion took 12 days.

Yes, and interestingly enough I was the first to write a story on that Z/28 convertible and had uncovered it in my travels and with my contacts writing about cars. It's these same people, and more, that call me about barn finds, which I call "Rare Finds" - for my three columns.

bloodbrotherdan exactly my thoughts people are stupid and dont listen to the story straight out of the original owners mouth he wanted the car and they didnt have one at the time so they did a quick conversion on it for him and the inside being painted red isnt far fetched remember people the car was blue with red interior so im sure the dash and the inside portions that were exposed metal were prob also blue so to see the whole inside painted red isnt far fetched since he wanted the car red and for all of you saying its not real because its an auto get your shit straight they didnt all come with the 4 speed till 68 and in 69 you could get and auto or the 4 speed, this car is a 67 and he bought it in 68 it was a left over that they had not converted yet and in 67 the cars didnt have the syc on the seats or the big spoilers or the stripes they only had the emblem added on the fender the 427 turbo-jet emblem and the tach. 68 and 69 had all of that and not all of them then even had all of that on them. people get your shit straight before you open mouth and insert foot.

Honda Rider 26 and actually, many cars received all sorts of wild combinations back then. The 69's were probably more obtainable with the automatics and someone I have known for many years has an original hugger orange car with the automatic. The stripes weren't applied until that year as well. I think the point you made about them not having any (big block cars) when he was looking, is the best indicator for this oddity. Don Yenko was making a sale and this process was just getting started. It wasn't until 69' that he had a deal to order the cars with factory installed 427's verses the swaps they had to do themselves in previous years. That's one of the really cool things about this time in American auto manufacturing; you could get almost anything you wanted - it was a wild west of sorts. I was born in 66' so I of course didn't witness this stuff first hand, but was brought up in a time to see and remember a lot of this from racers that my Dad knew and from reading many articles. My last car was a low mileage 68 L89 car that was purchased just for drag racing - quite a story on the car.

yeah i grew up in my grandpas body shop that he owned and i have taken over i do a ton of restorations on old muscle cars and im actually trying to get a start on restoring my 67 400 4 speed firebird but it doesnt pay to work on my own stuff lol i will get to it once i get the 67 rs ss camaro off of the frame jig and on the rotisserie but it is in pretty bad shape i have to replace every piece of sheetmetal on the camaro. but anyways i have seen alot of the old school muscle cars and done a ton of work on them so i have learned and figured out alot of different things on them so all of the people that immediately say its bs and dont have a clue drive me nuts. and yes with them not having any 68s ready to convert and only having the one 67 there they had to use what they had available cause you dont want to turn away a paying customer

Didn't you see all the paperwork in the video, its real and as documented as you can possibly get.

The original owner painted it red and then realized he hated it. He was in the process of tearing it down to get it repainted the original color.

Painted red but the original blue is still there on the roof but the 7k mile roof metal shows lots of exposure to the elements but the car has been garaged and the paint shop that changed it from blue to red stripped the car all the way down to the bare metal tub so they could paint it under the carpet pads. Sure they did. Now let's park it because I didn't realize I didn't like the color red AND in order to change the color again gut the entire car again. Oh and all of the original parts in the bins look like they have 700,000 miles on them. This car is a multicolored mishmash of parts that don't seem to fit very well plus some paperwork to which car exactly? It's all too "produced" like someone is trying to land a reality tv show.

I mean honestly the photos don't do this car justice. The paperwork is amazing. No one here wants a reality show. All we wanted to do is show this AMAZING find. This car certainly needs some work, but when its done its going to be beautiful. The paperwork is very explicitly to this car? do people on here not know how to read or something?

The people that don't get it are not car guys, must be trolls that live in their parents basement that don't have a Muscle Car.

that's the one he traded in if you read it fully.

Stolen Cars and In Parts from someybody else's Steel Bard..

The car is B.S. and so is the guy who found it...

No ... it's a fake....

I'd give your first AND second born.

Yenko used the Corvette's L72 427 engine. Iron.

Some assembly required - owner wanted to paint it back to its original Nantucket Blue and disassembled, then did not have the time to put it back together..

somebody did a lot of work on that car changing it to red.

john dillinger I know everything is red, inner doors etc

Not every owner preserves classic cars in the way they should be. I see stuff like this and just hang my head. Put the money in it, get it done... its a fking Yenko. Takes a real special person to look at a new Yenko (future classic) and do this.

The speakers in the rear package tray were added by Yenko Chevrolet and John Weaver went back to the dealership and had the stereo system added including the amplifier that mounts below the glove box door . The speakers were replaced at some point in time by John.

I agree Eric doesn't make sense .

Eric, you and most everybody else in this comments section (myself included) lots of inconsistencies with the story and the car. Makes you wonder. Or at least should if you are a thinking person at all.

Yeah they made 67,68s and 69 Yenkos

The 69 had a factory installed L72 427 V8...

Barn Find is a general term.

Jerry Heasley well, that is therefore a generic word, catch all, even if it is not true...

I saw that. Like it's a 68 fender

Cowl tag decode suggests car was originally equipped as OP has described in the video. I noticed several things that look odd though, so I understand comments of others who question authenticity. For instance, if owner understood the potential collectibility of this unit to the point of putting it away in ‘73, why did he disassemble and repaint it? (If one understands the collectibility, wouldn’t he decide instead to keep it bone stock?). Also I noticed red overspray in the trunk on hinges, yet the original black/grey spittle paint appears unmolested. I would have expected to see some blue in the trunk area somewhere instead of red. Also cowl tag has signs of red paint but I don’t remember seeing any red elsewhere in engine bay area? Why would someone disassemble an original Yenko with only 7400 miles, and why do all the interior parts shown look like they were used far more than 7400 miles? Is it possible this car wrecked at some point and was then repaired and painted red to better compliment the interior? If the car was raced and streeted every week during ‘68 and ‘69, how on earth can a person living in the rural Pittsburgh area possibly put only 7400 miles on the odometer? I’m not calling BS, I’m just saying input does not fully compute.

MyAss Izitchy: it supposedly was a June ‘68 build (5th week) at Norwood. I guess it’s possible that fenders switched over to ‘68 style by then, IDK. Also possible that fender was replaced.

YS means that when the car was at Yenko Chevrolet it was given a stock number of 760 ...in the Yenko world if a car was converted it was given a YS number ...that’s why this car is number 760

Yes we plan on posting progress photos

You wish you had a 7200 mile car. You’re just on here crying because you didn’t even get the chance to buy this car or better yet, you blew your chance 😉

If you are implying that it is a fake Yenko. Did you fail to watch the video or somehow failed to see the original paperwork in the video? Not to mention the cost at final sale. $5200 plus. Making it the single most optioned and highest priced Yenko ever sold. Yenko's could also be option with an automatic transmission instead of the 4 speed. I would prefer the 4 speed myself though.

The tag in the door only came in 1968 it was not offered in 67 or 69 ...

You can really make a very fast automatic gearbox nowadays faster may be

Automatic transmission is faster than an standard

The Yenko dealership was in the old building we showed.

Yes.

Same here.

Didn't last long enough. The moron owner took it apart at 7200 miles!

The speedo only.showed 7200 sumn

Yes, America - and so is this '69 Camaro 427 - watch this one, too and I think you will agree this is America kzfaq.info?o=U&video_id=7_uJJUwvm4M

50 years later the original owner cashed in.

Plus interest! I commend the original owner for keeping it safe for all these years. How many others of these cars that Jerry shows are a mere shadow of their former glory?

john dillinger exactly, who would want a blue on red camaro with a 3.07 rear end, wanted him to pay for a hood too. He could have probably bought a 68 Z28 orYenko model cheaper. Just shows dealers have always “obliged” when someone wants something, That being said it still is a good story.

How old is old? Send me info on make and model - jerryheasley@gmail.com

Yes the garage was heated

I'd like to know, too.

They have the Ford disease

Because sadly, only morons have owned this car.

A moron owned a 1967 Camaro?

Listen to what's said. This is a 7200 mile car. What the fuck?