Yenko Camaro
1969 was truly the year for the Yenko camaro, this was the year that the car would prove it's self one of the meanest cars ever built, Don Yenko being the savvy person that he was, ordered the car form the Chevrolet Central Office Production Order,”COPO” with two of the packages that were highly coveted by racers of that time era.
He ordered it with the 9737 sports car conversion, which provided a 140 MPH speedometer, sport suspension, and rally wheels, and then toped that off with the COPO 9561, which provided the L72 427 CID 425 HP engine, after Don got the cars at his dealership he would then add a graphics kit that included an arrow on the cowl hood, with two stripes moving back toward the passenger compartment of the car, he then added a big golf club stripe, that started at the front fender and went all the way to the back of the quarter panel on each side of the car, it ended with a little triangle on each end of the spoiler.
After that exterior graphics Don would add a gage package to the inside of the car, and a few small goodies, and this created the sYc, or Super Yenko Camaro, and super was the appropriate name for the car when Don put Dick Harrell behind the wheel of this car would would perform amazing feats at the race track, the Yenko Camaro was good for a 12.59 @ 108 MPH in the quarter mile, on stock rubber,
with the headers corked, I have been unable to locate the times that the car ran with the headers open, and a set of wrinkle walls on the car, but you can bet on around 12.30 @ 115 MPH, no slouch a street car huh.
Most of these cars came with a Muncie M21 or M22 rock crusher transmission, and if you ever wondered how the rock crusher got it's name, supposedly they dropped diamonds in to the gear box, and before it chewed the gears, the rocks were crushed to powder.