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 ...

Most of the time we, the general public, tend to give credit for the success of this or that four-wheeled vehicle to the company that gave birth to it. But on the peculiar American automotive scene, ...

Not every 1960s muscle car came from the factory. This 1967 Chevrolet Yenko Super Camaro 427/450, which heads to the auction block at Barrett-Jackson's sale taking place on January 29 in Scottsdale, ...

The sale of a single prototype has redrawn the price map for American muscle. When a 1969 Chevrolet Yenko Camaro prototype crossed the block at Mecum Kissimmee for a record figure, it did more than ...

Folks, it's hot out. Here in New York it's been approximately one million degrees every day this week, which means we're firmly in Fun Vehicle weather. I, personally, have been out motorcycling every ...

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 ...

Don Yenko was a Chevy dealer in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, who was interested in Sports Car Club of America, or SCCA, racing. In 1966, before the Chevy Camaro was available, Yenko petitioned the SCCA ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, high-performance car dealerships flourished. Big-engined cars, Paxton supercharged and rollbar equipped, could be purchased from your local dealer—ready to run on ...

Sitting in a Hugger Orange big-block Camaro is the kind of experience that causes people to do crazy things. The cackle of the chambered exhaust, the cowl induction hood, the black shift ball-it all ...