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YENKO SUPERCAR 2-PACKS

always find it amusing that Don Yenko, purveyor of Yenko Supercars—some of the most hairy-chested mega-motor muscle cars ever to terrorize a drag-strip (or a local street-race spot!) actually got his start tuning one of Chevy’s smallest engines to go road racing! Indeed, Yenko’s first Chevy performance upgrade of note was the original Stinger, a modified 1966 Corvair Corsa with its diminutive 164ci Flat-6 tuned up to go road racing! Of course, Yenko graduated to the new Camaro in ’67, and that’s when the horsepower numbers—and the Yenko

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