Most of the time we, the general public, tend to give credit for the success of this or that four-wheeled vehicle to the company that gave birth to it. But on the peculiar American automotive scene, ...
Introduced for the 1967 model year, the Chevrolet Camaro was a bit late to the pony car market. But that didn't stop it from becoming as iconic as the Ford Mustang. The first-gen model is by far the ...
The word Yenko evokes a sort of glassy-eyed reverence among muscle car aficionados, even those who otherwise can't stand Chevrolets. The Pennsylvania dealer configured production cars for ultra-high ...
Don Yenko was a young, struggling jazz pianist trying to break into the NYC jazz scene before coming to the realization that the life of a musician would be a hard one. After the prodigal son returned ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
The title of "muscle car" gets thrown around for almost any old American performance machine, but the classic idea is simpler: it's a mainstream front‑engine street car built around big power and ...
The Yenko Camaro emerged from a loophole in corporate policy and a dealer’s racing obsession, and in the process it reset expectations for what a “factory” performance car could be. By pairing ...
The classic muscle car era of the 1960s certainly saw a fair number of fire-breathing factory-built muscle machines. Cars like the Pontiac Catalina Super Duty, Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt, and the Dodge ...
Muscle car and SCCA legend Don Yenko built incredible performance cars from Chevy stock, out of the Yenko family’s Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Chevy dealership. However, Yenko didn’t start with Camaros; ...
The most expensive Chevrolet Camaro ever sold just crossed the auction block at Mecum Kissimmee. The 1969 Yenko Camaro from the Cliff Ernst collection fittingly wears an Olympic Gold paint job, like ...
Debuting September 26 th, 1966, the 1967 Chevy Camaro was Chevrolet’s response to the wildly successful Ford Mustang. The Camaro differed from the Mustang with a more streamlined appearance, front ...