A Pennsylvania Chevy dealer built only 37 of them. Insurance companies refused to insure them. Most were wrecked. Only a ...
The golden era of the muscle car was defined not just by what the factory allowed, but by what shrewd dealers managed to extract from Detroit’s guarded backrooms. These were machines born from ...
The cars carried a premium price (the base SS Camaro might cost ~$2,800, while the Yenko conversions listed around $4,100+ after the engine swap and parts, Yenko managed to sell them through his ...
A 1969 Yenko Camaro, one of the best Camaros ever made, is a very rare bird. In fact, only 201 of these high-performance pony cars were ever made. This, combined with the way in which these models ...
Don Yenko didn’t just sell cars; he sold rebellion with a warranty. When Chevrolet’s corporate brass capped displacement at 400 cubic inches, he found a loophole in the Central Office Production Order ...
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; ...