The paperwork indicates it was delivered to Yenko Chevrolet where it was sold to an unknown customer.
There is evidence that the car was sent to Joel Rosen at Motion Performance in Long Island.
But, no evidence that Motion did the work, as ANYONE could duplicate the work they did, with the parts they used. Anyone can get a reproduction or NOS period correct Motion sticker.
Then car was stolen from the original owner and was gone.
The car resurfaced in 1972 in Arkansas as a parts car that had been partially stripped and was then sold to a drag racer in Tennessee
He drove the Camaro until the late 1990s when it was parked in a garage until he died. In 2017, the car reappeared when it was sold by the second owner’s daughter. The car was sold and resold before it ended up in the hands of the current owner of Motion Performance who bought the company from Joel Rosen in 2020. When he could not find any paperwork on the car, it was sold again.
Remember what I said about clickbait headlines? Yeah, "Lost Yenko/Motion Performance 427 1968 Camaro in a Garage" was Hemmings headline.
So, was it lost? Nope. It was bought from Yenko, then maybe sent to Motion, then stolen, then bought by the Tennessee drag racer, then his daughter sold it, to the guy who bought Motion Perf. Then he sold it.
THAT AIN'T LOST! PLUS, if the new owner of Motion couldn't pull the paperwork, or verify that Motion worked on it by other means (the entire network of people who could verify it somehow, ya know?!) then it wasn't upgraded by Motion.Further... Hemmings actually asks, "Is it a Yenko/Motion car?"
More than one car has been faked by experts so buyers think they are getting some incredibly rare car. That's the truth.
Read a magazine article back in the 80s about there being more Shelby Mustangs and GTOs on the street than were actually made. Article had clues to look for to decide if it was the real deal.
ReplyDeleteSure, because so many of us prefer the look, or the hype, of the top of the line car, the GTO, over the LeMans for example, that a lot of guys made the low buck car look like the rare and cooler one.
DeleteA lot of guys made GTXs out of Belvederes, Super Bees from Coronets, Shelby's from Mustangs. 442s from ordinary plain Cutlass.