We don’t remember the Corvair as a compact car for price-sensitive customers, but for the legal fallout spurred by Ralph Nader with his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed. Something that is often ...

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.

These special-edition Chevy trucks managed to stand out in the crowd thanks to unique style, bolstered performance, or sheer ...

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, ...

Never in a million years would we have believed it had we not seen it with our own eyes. Close to 40 COPO, Yenko, Motion, Fred Gibb, and Dick Harrell supercars were vying to claim the Super Car ...

Don Yenko, a second-generation Pennsylvania Chevrolet dealer, was also a serious racer who loved to make his company’s products go faster. After winning in Corvettes between 1961 and 1963, Yenko ...

Q: Greg can you give us some info on the Chevrolet Corvair, especially those you came across during your racing days in the 1960s? Also, your opinion of the Corvair as a collectible car is also ...

My grandfather, nicknamed Popeye because of his huge forearms, was a wheeler dealer decades before Mike ran off Edd (allegedly). As a kid, he and I got up at the crack of dawn, and scoured the ...

Back in the 60s and 70s, Ford wasn't the only one of Detroit's Big Three enjoying a performance hero. And while Chevrolet's Don Yenko isn't as famous as the Blue Oval's Carroll Shelby, the first ...

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, ...

In the late 1960s, Chevrolet dealer Don Yenko of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, carved his name into muscle car history by creating the Yenko Super Camaro. Frustrated by General Motors’ corporate ban on ...