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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2005
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OMG saw a yellow YENKO S/C last night down Princes Hwy in Noble Park. Firs time I have ever seen one in person. Was left hand drive and all. Sounded a treat! It looks exactly like this http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...0001_large.jpg
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I doubt it would be a genuine YENKO considering the rarity (especially here) and also the big 6 figure value of them.
Not something youd be driving around Noble Park in at any case. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
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theres a genuine one in newcastle
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Doubter!! Why wouldn't it be?? Might just be the perfect time to go for a drive and attract a lot less attention then in the middle of the day. I wish I got to see one in the flesh.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Western Suburbs, Victoria
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Are the roads in Noble Park not good enough for it ??
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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i hate to sound ignorant ,but what the hell is a yenko? it looks like a camaro.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Central Q..10kms west of Rocky...
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Its a Camaro by Yenko;
PRESS RELEASE: Westminster, Calif. – (October 28, 2009) General Marketing Capital Incorporated (GMCI) announced today that it will present its official 2010 Yenko Camaro Prototype to the public in the OER booth (# 23795) at the 46th annual SEMA Trade Show in Las Vegas, November 3-6. The company will present the modern Yenko almost 44 years to the day that Don Yenko's Corvair Corsa was officially recognized as a Class D Production Competition Car by the SCCA. The official 2010 Yenko Prototype began its life on a 2010 Camaro SS platform. The vehicle then underwent several significant upgrades including modification to a "Phase I" Yenko Camaro Supercar. Preliminary highlights and specifications of this powerful vehicle include a high performance 600hp supercharged and intercooled LS-based engine, Tremec six speed manual high performance transmission, Hurst short throw shifter, 6-piston big brake package and Magnaflow high-flow cat-back exhaust system. Plans call for three Phases to be available to take the fifth Generation Camaro from ordinary to extraordinary. This "Phase I" Prototype from GMCI maintains the unique retro appeal Yenko enthusiasts are so passionate about, while including significant performance upgrades to the stock GM specifications and keeping the car affordable. Phase II and III cars will have higher output engines and even more suspension and handling upgrades. Additional Yenko branded upgrades to this prototype vehicle include: the Yenko stripe package, official emblems and badging, retro-styled 22" Yenko billet aluminum wheels, Yenko leather interior package featuring Yenko Super Car (sYc) embroidered headrests, Yenko/SC sill plates, Yenko/SC embroidered floor mats and more. Nearly 45 years ago, racing legend Don Yenko embarked on a mission to build a race car that could effectively compete in the 1966 SCCA racing season. His inspiration resulted in the development of the Yenko Stinger, an SCCA race car based on the Corvair Corsa platform. It was in the last quarter of 1965 that Yenko's plans for that vehicle came together changing automotive history forever. Originally, the 60s era Yenko car was a special order vehicle, designed and built by Don Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, PA. Don Yenko used the Central Office Production Order (COPO) program, a program GM used for fleet vehicles like police cars, taxi cabs, etc. to special order the vehicles and then modify them into some of the most powerful vehicles available. Today, an original Yenko is one of the most sought after Camaros in the world. For more information about GMCI or Yenko licensing, please contact GMCI Corporate Headquarters, P.O. box 12049 Westminster, CA. 92683 or info@gmcilicensing.com.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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What would indicate that it wasn't genuine??
I could believe it. And I highly doubt the suburb its in depicts its credability to be genuine or not. |
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brisbane
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Mate, I saw the **** end of a khaki green Jensen Interceptor vanishing into a driveway in Seaford on Sunday last, nearly ran fair up the date of the car in front trying to get a better look.
First one I've ever seen on the road. Magic ![]() MM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2005
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So you tell me if you had a 6 figure car you wouldnt take it out for a cruise??? I know if i did I would. |
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Now Fordless
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Fremantle, WA
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"that Hemis puttin out about 425 and that Yenko will snap the speedo in about 5 seconds flat. We're gonna have to pull something out of our ***" |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Too valuable to take on the street.
427 solid lifter motor. http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicl...aro/index.html |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Melbourne
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I've heard that Lindsay Fox (Linfox's owner) has one too. I don't know how true that is.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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Thanks csv8 , and Windsor220 yes i did see it, but i have a bad habit of dozeing off through movies
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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there is a white one (nor sure if its legit or not) that was down the spit (gold coast) the other day, sounded tough.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
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it was at the lunar drive inn 2 sat ago, if it is i wouldnt take somthing that valuable there
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Long live the Falcon GT
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I'm out all the time in with a genuine XY GT, and the FIRST question i'm always asked is "Is it genuine"... I feel like saying 'unless you are hallucinating, i'm pretty sure that the car is genuinly here...' Same with a guy i know who has 2 x genuine Shelby GT350's... and same question every time... Is it a real Shelby... There are real diamonds out there in the suburbs... It is true that there would be very few actual Yenko cars in Australia, same with the AAR hemi cuda's, or Plymouth Superbirds, but they are out there... Just realise that when you see these rare beasts, (even if they are replicas) they are something special and that you don't see them very often...
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I hear ya, I'd give a major organ or a leftie to own even a well built replica, let alone the real McCoy. I've got a few DVD's of aussie and yank muscle cars from the early days and unforutantely thats as close as I am at the momemt from having one parked in my garage.
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65 Galaxie Hardtop
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane QLD
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IMHO, no car is too valuable to take out onto the street, which I suppose is a bit rich coming from someone who could never in a million years afford one! I don't care if that car would be a DeLorean, a Bugatti Royale, an unmolested HK Kingswood or a Jaguar XJ220 - cars, in my view, are built to be driven. As for the "is that a real Yenko, mister?" comments, can't be avoided, sadly. Regardless, lovely car, thumbs up.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Yenko also did Nova's and other brands typically all big blocks from what i've read, and from what i've seen if you have to ask if it's original you can't afford it.
You do see some on ebay in the states from time to time. |
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Obsessed with wheels
Join Date: Dec 2006
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There's no use in having it if you don't drive it.
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"We'll drive home backwards..."
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Nah! just disconnect the speedo.
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Builder in Cairns has a couple of these.
ALso CJ mustang, Roadrunner, Daytona + other drool worthy specimens . I saw these in his shed back in about 1995ish. The Yenk was taken down the 1/8 mile at innisfail! |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Yep the Yenko's did the Camaro's, Chevelle's and Nova's from about 1967 onwards i think.
Same as Baldwin Motion. They were enterprises not too dis-similiar to what HSV is to Holden.
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There was a Yenko on that meccon auctions and they described it as the
poor mans version if you couldn't afford the real thing..... I have it saved on the hard drive on the set top box so I will view it again and see if it was a real yenko or if the car itself was a yenko mock up
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: sydney
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here a real one at the last motorkhana i was at
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