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The 1969 Yenko Super Camaro

4/25/2019

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By Brett Hickman

The Few, the Proud, the Yenko Super Camaros.
This 1969 Chevrolet “Yenko Super Camaro” was literally a barn-yard find.

The owner was in search of a first generation Camaro to strip and gut to make into a drag-racing chassis. In 1984, he found this Camaro under tarps next to a barn in Northern Indiana. It was a running 1969 Camaro with surprisingly a factory-installed big-block 427 engine with 4-on-the-floor and a Positrack rear-end. The car needed some work but the body was all good and straight and painted in all-grey primer.

There were no emblems, decals or any other immediately visible markings setting this car apart.
Just before he was about to tear-out the back-seat and rear-wheel inside fender-wells, he was contracted by Vince Emme who was a Yenko car collector, who had tracked him down by tracing ownership of the VIN#. It was then he learned his car was actually a Yenko Super Camaro.

The Super Yenkos were race-modified Chevrolet Camaro Chevelle and Novas done by the Yenko Chevrolet dealership outside Pittsburgh, Penn., in Cannonsburg from 1967 through 1969.

The Yenko Super Camaros were produced from 1967-1969. They were equipped with the 
Corvette L72 427 engine, power disc brakes, spoilers, cowl-induction hood, a 4.10 Positraction rear-end with gears that were heat treated for strength, a bigger front sway bar, and a heavy-duty 4-core radiator. They were available with either the Muncie M-21 4-speed or the Turbo Hydramatic-400 automatic transmission. In 1969, 201 cars were produced, 171 with a 4-speed transmission. And that’s exactly what this car has, now restored to factory condition.

After fully learning the history of the Yenkos and realizing what he had, this car was never cut into. In fact the opposite happened, because it was totally restored mechanically with the engine and transmission rebuilt. It was then painted its factory-blue and complimented with the Yenko designation and striping. 

It is now driven and displayed proudly at car-shows and cruise-ins all over Indiana. The Few, the Proud, the Yenko Super Camaros.
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Cruising to the Speedway

4/18/2019

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By Brett Hickman

​The Speedway edition of Indianapolis Coffee and Cars Cruise-In car show held Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the largest in its 11 years of car shows.

Saturday morning was the 4th event of 38 scheduled for this season. The car show began at 9 a.m. in the east parking lot of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum and attracted a record 536 entries and over 2,000 spectators during the 3-hour event.

Indianapolis Coffee and Cars began in Spring 2008 by Casey Szink and Mark Raza to unite car lovers in the Indianapolis area.  The events are held almost every Saturday morning from March through October at locations  in and around the greater Indianapolis metropolitan area. Entries are open to antique, classic, restored, modern,  hot-rod...just about everything.
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The next Indianapolis Cars and Coffee event will be Saturday at K1 Speed in Fishers.
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