Olympic Gold 1969 Yenko Camaro 427 Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode
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- Olympic Gold 1969 Yenko Camaro 427 Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode #165
Yenko Camaros are special cars indeed. This week, we're featuring a beautifully restored 1969 Yenko Camaro, complete with the correct 450 horsepower 427, 4-speed Muncie transmission, and all the other elements that make a Yenko a Yenko. This car is also one of only 10 Yenko Camaros painted in Olympic Gold, and one of only 2 with white stripes. Camaros might be common, but not this one!
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Wow, a truly golden age of muscle cars. What a time to be a car nut. Tnx Kevin.
I owned a Copo 427 Camaro. Didn’t know what value I had . Sold it. Love your presentation’s Kevin!
I use to own the 1997 30th Anniversary II Camaro 5 speed glass T-Top v6. I sure did miss her but wasn't my dream car which is the 63 Corvette Stingray wit split rear window. I love Old Skool classic muscle cars and I did find an 84 Corvette 5 on the floor. Jus wish I had $7,000 to buy it since I was born in 85
It doesn't get any better. 426, 427, 455, 440...
1 of 2 ?!! That's insane what an incredible awesome machine 1969 was the best year this planet will ever see thanks for sharing that with us
Great video
The color is unlike any other camaro I ever saw for starters
The Olympic Gold color was very rare. This car is one of ten ever made and one of five remaining. It's a beautiful color.
This is what I'll be driving in heaven.
Look at that thing. 🤤🤤
No you wont. That's *my* car! :)
@@HiTechOilCo
Ah...... Jealousy is a sin my son....
@@beachbumseaglass -Theft is a sin! lol
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Jesus has a 67' L88
He'll understand.
Beautiful Camaro, would be nice to one of these rear beasts in the garage😊
Nice car 🚗
Indeed,Yenko Super Cars were a breed apart.Using the standard F-car Fisher body,(also used by Pontiac's Firebird) & stuffing a 427 in place of the 396,was what made these cars special.
The 1969 Yenko Camaro's all came stock from the factory assembly lines with the L-72 427, 450 horse engines. That's what made the 1969 Yenko Camaro's special, that performance wise they were stock, right from the Chevy assembly lines. Only a handful were modified by Yenko Chevrolet with headers and traction bars.
What is don't get is why such skinny tires on the rare.Both of my supersnakes came with way to skinny tires.WHYYYYY
@@anthonylaudano9751 - That's what they had for tires in the late 1960's.
@@HiTechOilCo I know but if they had the tire technology of today the car's would be a lot faster.Like my super snakes lol change the rear tires and I can pick up well over a second in the 1/4.
@@anthonylaudano9751 I'm pretty sure they had Poly Glass N-50 tires back in '69. Drag racer's used slicks.
Best looking wheels of all time!!!
I'm 99.9% certain this is the car I used to own and it originally had 15"X7" rallye wheels. The car has been over-restored.
That is a wicked looking Camaro.
My buddy had one in that color! Black stripes though. Rode in it a lot. He bought it used in 1971 for $2,200 bucks. It was stolen and never found!
That seems a bit odd that such a rare, valuable car would be stolen and not resurface for sale somewhere. I take it the police were contacted? Did they actually make any effort to recover the car? One does not just use a 1969 Yenko Camaro for parts.
What a beauty...👌
A Mona Lisa, with a mustache painted on. :(
This Camaro was born to be alive!!!
It was when I owned it.
Now it's just a trailer queen. Sad fate for a great car. :(
Who installed the California emissions air pump, with a car manufactured in Detroit Michigan and shipped to Don Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania?
Exactly...makes you go hmmmm. Paperwork?
California required for retail sale when new
In California is important to reduce horsepower to a 4-cylinder while still burning fuel of a V8.. had one on mine 283 Malibu.
@@daveguthaus7571 Required by California on vehicles destined to be sold in California originally . Most cars in '69 weren't sold in " the land of fruits and nuts ".
this is a very cool car. you just gotta love old camaro's.
Great Info,Never Realized So Few Colors.Live in South,So These Are Very Rare Here.Probably 4 Times as Many Clones as Real Ones.Frienf of Mine ,Back in the Day,Had A SS 396 ,L-78 & It Was A Monster to Hold on Road in Curves,So Guess These Were SAME.Never Even Seen A Pic.,Much Less a Real One, of This Color .As Always,Ur Videos Are Great & Informative.I' L TAKE IT,OOPS,MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH GASOLINE C/CARDS.LOL
The Olympic Gold color is the rarest color for the 1969 Yenko Camaro's with only 10 of them in that color. Only 5 are known to be left.
There is a real gold Yenko Camaro like the one in the video in this shop I work by in Tulsa, OK super sick
Do you have any details about the car? Does it have a 140 mph speedometer?
Olympic gold, all old Chevy looked good in this color, one of my favs.
wow, what a car!!!
Cool bring on more Chevy's. How about that Covair the is in the collection?
Lord, that is a fine machine. Hellcats, schmellcats, this is the real deal others copy but hardly get it right.
How can I get one of those cool V8 Speed & Resto Shop jackets?
hey kevin, how bout inviting us to check em out. not on the website...........in person? lol
I'd take one of these, but it would have to be a rally green one with black stripes.
That is interesting about the colors. I never knew the color selection was so limited. I actually have a 1:18 scale highway 61 Yenko Camaro that is white. They usually have done their homework when they build these cars.
None of them were white.
My grandfather owns a rally green yenko Camaro with black stripes. And we do belive it is an original yenko and not a clone.
I can verify it for you.
@@HiTechOilCo it was painted rally green but came as a fathom green. Evrything is original on it except for the paint and tires.
@@thathippyguydownthestreet If you can provide the VIN, I can validate the car for you. There is a list of the VIN's on the Internet of all the 1969 Yenko Camaro's.
To start off, I really enjoy your channel, you show the nicest cars, the rarest cars, however when describing the radiators, and believe me when I say this, you're not the only one. The radiator is made up with the Tanks which are on each side of the core, the core for this engine needs extra capacity, consists of 4 Rows, not 4 cores, we've been corrected many times in class and it's embarrassing in front of the class. I just wanted to share that with you. Again, I really enjoy your channel and all it shows. Thanks for sharing.
I love cars like this, something very special!
It used to be, when I owned it. It has been altered though. :(
Jaw hitting floor
Where does the Brothers Collection find these type of car? Are they finding them at auctions?
Brian Orfant I’m convinced they are time travelers. They go back and buy cars and bring them to the future. Lol. They have an impressive collection!
How do you find all those cars???
What would this set you back in today's market? Anyone any ideas?
$600,000.00
A few hundred thousand or so.
Great informative video Kevin, i like many had assumed these were exclusively built by Yenko, and had no idea how involved Chevy was, and how they were licensed to be built by other dealership conversions carrying the Yenko name.
The 1969 Yenko Camaro was not built by Chevrolet dealerships. It was a special order C.O.P.O. car that Don Yenko ordered from Chevrolet. The high performance driveline all came right from Chevrolet and Don Yenko installed his stripe kit on most of them and with a handful of them he installed headers, traction bars and aftermarket mag wheels.
That's a great car
It used to be.
The automatic cars are rated 410 HP ,and some had the hes/hers hurst duel gate shifter like the GTO had
410 HP. 😂😂🤣
Yeah right. Maybe at idle.
Chevy at its Best!
This car is just weird... I'd rather have a chevy cruz
@@brockmaine2743 -If you drove it, you might not say that anymore. :)
What did it do in the quarter mile?
11.96 @114.50 mph with headers and slicks.
How much did one of these Yenkos weigh, id est what is the power to weight ratio?
About 3,200 lbs.
@@HiTechOilCo so 1451.496 kg. Not bad, not bad at all.
I owned a 1969 Yenko Camaro but the man running the shop I had it at for a Cosmetic Restoration STOLE IT and vanished like a Ghost. I have the Title and Brass Conversion Badge) which I took off before I brought it to him)in a Safety Deposit Box which I’m taking TO MY GRAVE.
What is a Brass Conversion Badge?
I presume you contacted the police and so whatever happened?
What state was it in?
I am really surprized that car came with a M21 4 speed
THIS THE ROCK CRUSHER>?
Jonny Gross The. M-22 designation is the rock crusher 4 spd
@@scottbaker1018 heavy duty
scott Baker both the M-21 and the 22 are called rock crushers, the 21 is close ratio the 22 standard
@@deborahchesser7375 - The M-22 was the rock crusher, so named because of the helical cut gears that made a whining sound. The M-21 was not like that. www.superchevy.com/how-to/transmission/1808-guide-to-muncie-m20-m21-and-m22-four-speed-transmissions th-cam.com/video/MampOXnU7-c/w-d-xo.html
I had two 69 camaros in my life first one we rolled doing 120 mph then hit a pole 15 ft in the air with the roof on my high school graduation no seat belts on with 4 kids. I owe my life to good American quality craftsmanship. My favorite car of all time a 1969 z28 but I would also love a Yenko or a clone too!!!
We rolled?...
You owe your life to the good Lord
Who installed the wheels it didn't come with, the headrest emblems and gauge package?
The Atlas wheels were available as extra-cost Yenko dealer-installed options to the factory Rallye wheels. Yenko also installed the body stripes (black or white), headrest decals, and 427 badging at his dealership. The only thing that GM did under the COPO was drop the L72 427 into the car coming down the moving assembly line so that Yenko Chevrolet did not have to perform that swap at their dealership for the 1969 models.
@@artvandelay0073 - I'm 99.99% certain that I owned this car and it didn't come with the Atlas wheels, it had 15"X7" rallye wheels. It also never had the sYc headrest decals.
Hey brother I never seen a video of you posting a 1970 yenko Nova with a 427 which is one of the fastest cars ever built in a quarter mile down to about 10.9 seconds with slicks in a quarter of a mile that is pretty quick
Yenko 427 Nova where 1969 only. All the 1970 Yenko Novas had LT1 350 👍🏻
Merriicaaaaa
I strongly believe this is the car I used to own. The only other Olympic Gold car with white stripes has headers installed by Don Yenko Chevrolet and has been in another private collection for many years. I owned the car for many years and I recognize it. A low life thief stole the original steel cowl induction hood and I spent a very long time searching for a N.O.S. replacement hood from Chevrolet until I found the last one remaining in the country. It has an ever so slight bow to it that no one else would ever know about, but it's distinctive and this car's hood is like that. I spotted this in an instant.
When I owned the car, it didn't have a California air emissions pump, gauge package, "sYc", emblems on the headrests, or the aftermarket wheels. From my research, the car never had the, "sYc", headrest emblems. It had 15" X 7" rallye wheels with trim rings and center caps. The shifter ball was white, not black. It also had very stout traction bars that were on the car from the second owner I purchased the car from and he had not installed them. They were not the typical auto parts store cheapies, but professional, heavy duty traction bars, (probably Lakewood traction bars). I strongly suspect they were installed by Don Yenko Chevrolet, as the traction bars were one of the options he could install for a customer and they were very effective.
The original engine was long gone when I bought the car and it had an L-36, 390 horse 427 with a Rochester 4-barrel replacement installed, (although I know where the original engine is). I spent a lot of time and money gathering the correct parts to build a duplicate L-72, 427, 450 horse engine for the car. I have the VIN committed to memory and if this is the car I used to own for many years, (and I strongly suspect it is), this was a very rare car that has been over-restored and altered from its original state. I hate to see what has become of this car. A crying shame. The car I owned was a survivor car and was very special. I hope the current owner was not sold the car as being original in its original state. I mean, a California emissions pump on a car that was manufactured in Detroit, Michigan and sent to Don Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania? Right. I wonder why the car also doesn't have the super rare factory snow plow option too? lol That sure would add to its value, eh? I'm trying to contact the current owner of this car before I leave this earth and the historical information on this car is lost forever.
that is cool (sry I am late to comment)
Did you ended up contacting the owner? Would love a follow up!
69 yenko novas 427/450 hp is the fastest yenko
The 427 Yenko Nova was not a factory production line car. The 1969 Yenko Camaro was.
Hey kev know pics but i worked for a pretty wild guy who had a body shop an a Dyna corn franchise called MORHERTRUCKERS my friend has passed away but one day i asked him how he got into restoring old 67 thru 72 chevy trucks....an got one of the rarest muscle car storys ever for an answer....he said to me well i have my Camaros (ironically i have cudas an challenger s)i said Camaros huh.....he said i have my collection oh a 1967 n a 68 n a 69 RS SS CONVERTIBLE each one with under 500000 miles wow i said how did u end up with those he said when i turned 17 while living in California he bought and ordered his first car a 1969 Yenko Camaro 427....but being 17 and the car having a 200mph speedo his parents were told 3900 dollars for insurance on his 3700 dollar car dad said nope mom too.....so he brought his car home with nine miles on it parked it in the garage put the title in the house.an didnt drive it for twelve years finally he sold it to a guy who got tobe the owner of a new car because he never titled it.....that was his start...to which i said u didnt even go to the track with it an do quarter mile run ever how....i could have not done that a big block is a drag car i would have been doing drags for sure minimum......or i would have least jumped it onto some drug dealers boat fir fun.....9 miles an it just sat there he started it ever now and then but that was it.Dont know color or nothing just know it was a 69 yenko 427 Camaro California dealer ship.thanks my god that gold is pretty one of the nicest colors ever....thanks i wonder what that or similar yenkos are pulling money wise.
All 1969 Yenko Camaro's were C.O.P.O. cars and came with 140 mph speedometers.
I can't get in to the yenko .net to ask something, could I do it here...? My dad sold my brother's yenko camaro in 1976 at Slocum car lease, in west allis ,Wisconsin, I would like to get the vin from the car... That's all I want .... This car didn't have the orignal 427 ,because the first owner blew up the engine , the new owner knows this to some degree... I think it had round intake ports, , this was a more plain yenko ,with no headrest stickers , no 140 mph speedometer,,,, Thank you ....Mike
All 1969 Yenko Camaro's came with a 140 mph speedometer. If it didn't, it's not a Yenko Camaro.
These r the rarest 1969 Camaros I know
1969 Camaro ss 396 l89 = 311 ever made
1969 Camaro Yenko 427 = 201 ever made
1969 Camaro ZL1 = 69 ever made
The ZL1 is a COPO, all COPOs are expensive and some can be rare but this is the rarest. The Yenko, similar to the COPOs, is also rare, it is not specially a RPO nor COPO, it could only be bought at the Yenko GM dealership. The SS 396 L89 had the fastest top speed of all Camaros and many other sporty muscle cars. It was like the L78, same horsepower, and of course, it was the SS. It had aluminum cylinder heads which made the car more rare because it made the car lighter and handle better. It was the best RPO Camaro you could get in 1968 and 1969. However, it was not available in 1967
199 Yenko Camaro's were sold, as per the Don Yenko registration book for the 1969 Yenko Camaro's.
@@TopG800 - All 1969 Yenko Camaro's were C.O.P.O. cars as they were assembled on the Chevrolet factory assembly lines and had the L-27 427's installed right there at Chevrolet.
@@HiTechOilCo ok, thx
It's got the wrong tail lamp lenses... the first 50 X66 coded cars got the tail lamp lenses with bright trim.
I strongly believe this is a car I used to own for many years and those tail lamp lenses are factory original.
If you want ac just roll down the windows...
why no chevy bowtie on front of grill?
all copo orders were no badging look at zl1 same thing plain jane this car does not have a gauge package either copo was basically for multi order cars like cabs etc.these dealers were lucky they someone that could some strings
@@asfshrimp yes dad and me bought a 69 in69 Huntington Beach CA
I wonder if that’s the correct pronunciation for that word the way it is said it would be spelled YANKO. But instead it is spelled YENKO. I think you should pronounce it YEN....KO. There’s no A in that word anywhere.
The COPO , Yenko, Baldwin, Nicky cars with the 427s , did they come with factory warranties, or were they limited warranties like the Hemis ?
That's a good question!
My dream car
Thanks to the mega-rich, unless you too are mega-rich, I'm afraid you'll never be able to afford to own one of these cars, or any muscle car. Unless you're extremely fortunate and were to be able to buy this car for $3,500, as I did. The rich people buy and sell these cars like stocks in the stock market. They look at them as nothing more than investments and they could care less about the history of the cars. This has driven the prices of these cars into the stratosphere and these rich people refer to, "the market", for the cars. All they care about is the almighty dollar! Sick. I would not want to be them and have to account for my life come Judgement Day, which even the rich people will have to face one day!
When I owned this car, it never had the optional mag wheels, the under-dash gauge package or the, "sYc", emblems on the headrests. Being manufactured in Detroit, Michigan then sent to Don Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, P.A., the car never went anywhere near California and having a California emissions air pump would not be necessary. There were only two 1969 Yenko Camaro's in the Olympic Gold color with white stripes and one of them does have the optional mag wheels from Don Yenko Chevrolet and it's not this car.
I owned this Yenko Camaro in this video for many years. It was an original survivor car and would have been worth far more money, (as well as preserving the unique historical heritage of the car), if it had not been over-restored. It breaks my heart to see what was done to my car, destroying its uniqueness. It used to have very heavy duty traction bars on it that looked to be the same age as the rest of the underside of the car. In other words, installed by Don Yenko Chevrolet. Sadly, this video shows they have been removed. This poor car. :(
Big block Camaros were nose heavy. My 66 Nova with a built 400 small block with Keith black pistons and a crane roller cam would beat them all day long, those were the days....
Highly modified vs. a stock car might be comparing apples with oranges.
HiTechOilCo - Chevy never made a showroom 427 Camaro. You know how much work it was for yenko to put that engine in there? It's pretty much the same. All I did was transplant some parts..... Besides big block Camaros just blew the tires off anyway unless you had slicks at a track good luck.
@@heavenstomurgatroyd7033 - As correctly stated in this video, the 1969 Yenko Camaro's were all C.O.P.O., Corporate Office Production Orders cars and were special ordered right from Chevrolet with the L-72 427, 450 horse engine installed right on the Chevrolet factory production lines. This is what makes them special, as they are not dealership hot rod cars, but factory production line cars. It was an easy swap, as the 396 big block engine that could be regularly had in the 1969 Camaro, was essentially the same engine, aside from it being 31 cubic inches smaller displacement. Everything else was the same; motor mounts, radiator hoses, bell housing, exhaust, etc., so installing the 427 in place of the 396 was an easy drop in replacement. As for traction, superior performing high end tires make a huge difference.
HiTechOilCo - as I remember Yenko, Berger and.... Developed the concept and working with the production office proofed it to Chevy and then the copo option was born. All factory cars were late production. There were no "superior performance" bias ply tires. Radials just came out and were slippery.
@@heavenstomurgatroyd7033 - 1969 Yenko Camaro's were available throughout 1969. Early models didn't have the tachometer available from Chevrolet, so Don Yenko Chevrolet installed Stewart Warner tachometers. Yes, all musclecars were traction limited by bias ply tires back in the day, but no one would use such a tire today for other than car shows. With my Yenko Camaro, I found B.F.Goodrich Comp T/A's to be absolutely *fantastic*. Drop the clutch, "chirp", they dug in and it's, "See ya later alligator!". :)
Copo, top that, sucker.
This was a survivor car and has been over-restored. It's unique originality has been ruined. I'm 99.9% certain I used to own this car and it breaks my heart to witness what has been done to it. :(
Somebody tell this guy the Yenkos made a lot more than 450 up. The rating was a joke. Try 500 to 600 up.
The L-72 427, 450 horse engine could make that power yes, but it needed headers to achieve that.
Chevrolet rated the L-72 427 at 425 horsepower for insurance reasons. Don Yenko dyno tested a stock L-72 and found it actually generated 450 horsepower, so the 450 horsepower emblems were installed on the air cleaner lid for the Yenko Camaro's.
@@HiTechOilCo Many of these cars as soon as they were taken off the showroom floor had their exhaust manifolds replaced with headers.
@@w41duvernay - Most of them were used in drag racing service, (as that's what they were intended for and was why they had so few options), so yes they had headers installed. However, for street use I didn't see the need. This car was blazingly fast and could hit 60 mph in 4 seconds all day long. I embarrassed quite a few Mustang GT's, Corvette's, a Porsche 944 turbo and a twin-tubocharged Nizzan 300-ZX with it. The torque of the L-72 427 was just amazing! :) .
This car is indeed one of two ever made and I strongly believe this is the car I owned for so many years. I bought it for $3,500 in the mid-1980's. In my opinion, when a rare, original survivor car is altered and over-restored, the car loses its history and is no longer special and unique, becoming much like a clone car. I hope this was not done to defraud the current owner of this car of their money, making the car, "rarer", and more valuable than it really is. Muscle Car of the Week, how do I contact the current owner?
A California emissions air pump on a car built in Detroit, Michigan and then sent to Don Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania? Right. I may have been born at night, but I was not born last night. I strongly believe this is the car I used to own and it did *not* have a California air emissions pump, as well as several other items on the car! Has fraud been committed here? How does one contact the current owner of this car? They need to be made aware of the history of this car. I hope they were not defrauded of their money.
A built DZ 302 small block would eat these for a snack.
When you drive a 1969 Yenko Camaro with that beautiful L-72 427, 450 horse big block, you'll know that a little 302 would have to be extremely modified to be faster. :)
Always hated that color
Different strokes for different folks. For the 23 years I owned this car, I thought it was a very unique and beautiful color.
Stolen car
Stolen? Details please.