Attack of the Clones Continues
More and more people are cloning muscle cars these days, and why not? Big money is changing hands even for a fake. At the recent Leake Auction in Oklahoma, a General Lee clone of the now famous 1969...
View ArticleSeller of Many Mopars Hopes to Net $4.8 million
We witnessed a package deal of five Yenko cars being sold at the Mecum Auction in St. Charles, Illinois, a few weeks ago for $1.7 million to Steven Schultz, of Chicago, who told us they were the first...
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Pontiac by… Yenko?
The gloried performance car modifier of the holy muscle era, Yenko, is obviously most associated with the monster Chevrolets it created through big-block transplants. That changed in 1975 when a...
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A Labor Day weekend tradition is on deck
With the record-smashing Monterey auction dust still settling, all eyes are now shifting to Auburn, Indiana, site of two big Labor Day weekend auctions. If we’re to approach both events in...
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Auctions America reports $18.5 million in sales at Fall Auburn
Auctions America by RM has shifted the rebirth of the famed fall Auburn sale into high gear in just its second season at the Auburn Auction Park. It was held during the traditional Labor Day weekend...
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Hot off the press: Yenko Corvair in Hemmings Classic Car
Before the big-blocks and the dragstrip terrors, Yenko Chevrolet offered a different kind of performance with the Corvair-based Stinger. In the May 2013 issue of Hemmings Classic Car (#104), Terry...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Yenko
With any production vehicle, there can only be one “first off the assembly line” and one “last off the assembly line,” and both instances can add considerably to a car’s value. But what about...
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1970 Plymouth Hemi Superbird sells for $575,000, topping “Blood Muscle” auction
The auction-topping 1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos courtesy A.J. Willner Auctions. Bidders who came looking for muscle car bargains at the September 12 U.S. Marshall’s seized property auction in...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – Yenko-Weslake 32-valve Chevrolet small-block V-8
While we most commonly associate Weslake with Ford V-8 engines, Chevrolet and Yenko did work with the British tuner to build a number of aluminum pushrod-activated 32-valve cylinder heads for the...
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Yenko’s Deuce – the kinder, gentler supercar
1970 Yenko Deuce. Photos by John Hollansworth, Jr., courtesy Mecum Auctions. Most people mark 1972 as the death of the (first) muscle car era, but if insurance companies had their way, it would have...
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