When talking about Don Yenko, we usually think about the 1969 Camaro that he created through Chevrolet's COPO ordering process. And that's alright because the Yenko Camaro is an incredible beast, ...
In 1969, Yenko Sportscars proudly declared that it was "The Leading U.S. Producer of Hi-Performance Chevrolet Based Vehicles." With a combined production of 350 '69 Yenko/SC 427 Camaros, Chevelles, ...
Chevrolet's first midsize offering, the Chevelle arrived in late 1963 as a competitor for the Fairlane, which Ford downsized in 1962. And it quickly became one of Chevrolet's best-selling nameplates.
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 ...
Bowing in August of 1963 for the 1964 model year, the Chevy Chevelle was built on GM’s A-Body platform. There is some debate about the origin of the Chevelle name, but it is thought to have either a ...
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 ...
Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
Everyone wants a dealer special fromYenko Chevrolet in their garage. These were the baddest of the bad street cars that Don Yenko set up with parts from Chevrolet’s COPO program, with parts that other ...