They did a bunch of articles on the car and it had many different engines in it over the years

They brought it to Bill Thomas for a 396 to run it in Super Stock

cool pic of it with a drag shute

thanks for posting the interesting early Camaro history

has any of the cars in the Jam Handy Film been linked to the info in the article?

youtube Jam Handy Film 10 part video series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDAFR_l9s2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKjOEoBXHI

are you talking about the red 67 Camaro Hot Rod Magazine test car ?

that car has a great history and is in many old magaize articles

 it is a shame they can't seem to get the story correct

they look close to the 69 Camaro but the dr side rear spark plug wire bracket looks wider then on a chrome set
I have.

Many of the BB valve covers look similar but have small difference in the spark plug wire brackets or temp sender wire brackets and locations or the shape of the dr side rear cover.

The dr side cover is trickey because brackets had to be correct to get around the wiper motor, power brake vac line , temp sensor location, etc

Jon, I don't know if Smokey could have built a 69 Camaro for Tiny Lund as Smokey went to Ford in 1969
when Bunkie Knudsen left Chevy to run Ford he took Smokey with him

Yunick built a 69 Mustang with a 429 and a 302 for the Ford Motor Company in 1969 and worked on other Ford projects

Smokey's mustang
http://www.ponysite.de/smokey.htm

in one photo it looks like original rims and Firestone tires on the car then in another photo same wheels and tires are on the trailer

Smokey sold at least two Camaros that were dressed as 1968's and they were run in 1969

Don Yenko bought one of them but they were both in some of the same races in 1969

Don Yenko won the Citrus 250 at Daytona in 1969 and ran it in the 24hr Daytona race with Dick Guldsrand as co driver
Don ran about 6 TransAm races in it in 1969

I think the other one was bought by Tiny Lund but I am not sure

Tiny had a bunch of Camaros and won many Nascar races in them from about 1969 to 1971 often had Pepsi as a sponsor

nice pics

The card says Dynamotion was also a Motion Performance parts distribitor

post a pic of the trim tag

Who was the original dealer?

You can try to find if anyone is still around, from the original dealer, that may know about it

there is a magazine article on that Z and it had a prototype spoiler on it that was different then the production spoiler

the back looked to be more of a flat surface as compared to the more curved production unit

also have seen some of the 7mm Delco hi temp orange wire with gray color ends (plug side)

I don't know if this wire was all made by one wire company or one company that would supply the wire co with materials but the 7mm hi temp wire
of the late 60s early 70s I see a lot is the burnt orange color, steel core wire.

It was used by Delco, Motorcraft, AutoLite, Ramcharger, Mallory, and others.

that is a great article - thanks for posting

It is interesting that not much is said about Chevy's role in the building of the cars or sponsoring the record runs but it sure sounds like one of the underground Chevy racing team projects that Smokey did.

NICB does have old records as I know many people who did get the NICB info on Yenko cars.
I got one about 10 years ago. It was difficult to get and took time and a lot of phone calls.

they seem to be mixed up with the SCCA rule. There was something about the SCCA required 1000 units factory built to be legal Trans Am car but they allowed the SS 350 production to be included with the Z/28 production to make the 1000 unit requirement

I have rebuilt a bunch of Muncie shifters and they work pretty good if done right but they were just not designed for hard shifting.

If you like banging gears you want a Hurst

If you want a correct resto you want an original restored Muncie shifter

They are hard to find with all the correct small parts but they are still out there.