Yenko Sports Cars

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The former company building of Yenko Sportscars, Inc. in March 2008

The Yenko Chevrolet, Inc. was an American automobile dealers and the tuner in Canonsburg (Pennsylvania) was established. Don Yenko , the son of the founder of the Chevrolet automobile trading company, which has existed since 1957 , initially offered a specially tuned Corvair under the name Yenko Stinger from 1965 to 1967 .

history

In 1966, Don Yenko was so impressed with the handling of the 2nd series Corvair that he applied for an SCCA racing license for this Corsa model. The registration office licensed the car with the rear seat bench removed and the engine modified, which delivered more power and torque. The 100 Corvair Corsas that were registered in 1966 were all white with blue stripes and were called the Yenko Stinger .

Yenko continued to modify Corvair coupes as long as the car was manufactured by Chevrolet. The last Stinger was a 1969 coupe; then Chevrolet stopped manufacturing in Willow Run, Michigan .

When the Camaro appeared on the pony car stage in 1967 , Yenko built in the L-72 7.0 liter V8 engine from Chevrolet with 425 bhp (317 kW) along with a few other tuning parts, creating the Yenko Camaro . The cars were so popular that Yenko used Chevrolet's COPO (Central Office Production Order) system in 1968 and 1969 to have L-72 engines installed on the production line in Camaros, Chevelles and Novas .

In 1971 Yenko offered the modified Vega as Yenko Stinger II with a 2.3 l R4 engine with turbocharger and 155 bhp (114 kW). Chevrolet never took up Yenko's marketing idea, because neither the high-compression engines ordered by Yenko nor turbo engines were offered directly by Chevrolet for this model. The Stinger II was offered by Yenko Sportscars until 1973. The high performance and the limited number of pieces make the Chevrolets tuned by Yenko coveted collector's items.

General Marketing Capital, Inc.

On October 14, 2009, General Marketing Capital, Inc. announced that it now owned the Yenko trademark and had plans to relaunch the brand.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X , p. 873. (English)
  2. ↑ Yenko brand still kicking 45 years later, new vehicles coming? . Autoblog.com, October 15, 2009