Since it seems you are into Camaros etc. Let me lay this tidbit on you. I grew up 1 mile from where all the Yenko SC cars were built and would ride my bicycle down there everyday and watch them get put together. If I only had money and a license back then, I was only 15 then. Just look at what they go for now at Barrett Jackson. I still live in the same town but it a an old beat up motorcycle shop now.
That 68 SS396 is still owned by my friend who I sold it to. Figure now, about a $45K car, which is peanuts next to a Yenko Camaro.
Last time I eyed a Yenko '69 in Hemmings, it was a yellow beauty, with an asking price of $110K.
Back in the day, we had Nickey's Chevy in Chi Town, them dropping 427's in Novas, and Impalas, etc. And of course Baldwin-Motion in NY.
Sorry for the sidetrack.
Even my Tahoe in my Avatar was "christened" one day, and of all places, where was I going, was to a paint supply shop in the chicago suburbs to get a qt of 3M Glaze, and a bottle of Meg's #20 sealant for the truck!
Twenty-two year old phillipino kid rear ended me at the highway exit, monkeyed the rear step bumper, but also knocked the rear bumper's corner into the driver's rear quarter.
I almost snapped, and killed the kid, he was so afraid of me, he ran to the back of "his father's Grand Am", which he practically totalled on the back end of my Hoe.
I felt a slight "nudge", and watched in slow motion through my rearview mirror as the
entire front end of his dad's Grand Am folded up like an accordion.
(My Trailer Hitch probably absorbed a lot of the impact, and destroyed the car)
His insurance paid, and I went through a hell with the repairs, which was a friend, who really shafted me. I gave him zip, had to buy my own bumper, and swap myself in my garage.
Mark