Chevrolet dealership owner and racing driver Don Yenko circumvented the General Motors big-engine ban from the 1960s by swapping the 6.5-liter L78 in the Camaro pony car with the 7.0-liter L72 engine ...

There are certain things you should never do, like swimming with sharks in chum-flavored Speedos or fire-juggling on the Hindenburg, but not everything taboo has such disastrous results. In fact, ...

Brian Henderson, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, bought this '69 Chevelle before the musclecar craze got out of hand. At that time, it was simply an original SS 396 Chevelle whose fried motor had been ...

A standard Malibu built when GM's self-imposed 400-ci (6.5-liter) limit on intermediate V8s was still in effect, this 427 L72-powered, non-SS Chevelle became a reality through clever manipulation of a ...

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 name Don Yenko is legendary in the muscle car world. But before the Canonsburg, PA, Chevy dealer built Yenko Camaros, Yenko Novas, or Yenko Chevelles, they made the Corvair-based Yenko Stinger.

Values for the 1969 COPO Chevelle have been climbing steadily as collectors recognize just how rare, historically important, and brutally capable these cars are. What started as a quiet fleet-order ...

Don Yenko lived an interesting, diverse and prolific life – albeit a short one. Packed in his 59 years was an excellence and an exuberance for flying airplanes, driving race cars, playing the piano, ...

Beginning with the Camaro’s launch in 1967, Pennsylvania Chevrolet dealer and racer Don Yenko produced some of the most wicked versions of the model ever made. Because GM would not fit an engine ...

Don Yenko grew up in his family’s Chevrolet dealership. In 1957, he set up a performance shop at the dealership for adding a bit more punch to Chevy cars. The shop sold performance parts to customers, ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...