In the late 1960s, Chevrolet dealer Don Yenko of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, carved his name into muscle car history by creating the Yenko Super Camaro. Frustrated by General Motors’ corporate ban on ...
When it comes to Pro Street builds, it wasn’t long ago that the “smart people” in the room loudly proclaimed it was dead and buried. According to them, the world had moved on to pro-touring and other ...
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 ...
The golden era of the muscle car was defined not just by what the factory allowed, but by what shrewd dealers managed to extract from Detroit’s guarded backrooms. These were machines born from ...
1969 marked the last stint Don Yenko would churn out his signature street-and-track pony ruffians, the Chevrolet Camaro. The Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania racer, tuner, and bowtie dealer set his name in ...
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; ...
Debuting September 26 th, 1966, the 1967 Chevy Camaro was Chevrolet’s response to the wildly successful Ford Mustang. The Camaro differed from the Mustang with a more streamlined appearance, front ...