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.

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 Yenko Camaro is one of the many iconic Chevrolet vehicles of the 1960s. Yenko saw the demand for a Camaro with the L72 engine and began installing the engine into Camaro bodies in 1967. The cars ...

Back in the summer of 1966, Loren Reineking was cruising around Des Moines in a 1962 Corvair convertible. Motoring carefree to his job at a bank had made him quite a fan of Chevy's little sportster.

After our less-than - splendid example (so far) of a supercharged Vega, we bring you now to another method of inducing horsepower from with—, out, while not disturbing those parts within the engine.

Number 76 of 100 Yenko-built Corvairs takes the spotlight. Russia recruits Arab fighters with promises, then sends them to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Chris Shade, the Chevy Corvair is more than just a car or his business. It's his family. I mean that literally. Without the Corvair, Shade's family – and life – would be far different. He was ...

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, ...

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 ...