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  • How much compression

  • So glad that when you finally got to the front of this car I didn't see the RS headlights AGAIN. It's nice to see the non RS front fascia once in awhile. The round headlights look superb.

  • now that is what a muscle car really is :)

  • nice> VERY nice....

  • well there was about four of them nickey, berger, yenko, baldwin/ motion that sold hot chevys back in the days late 60's,early 70's

  • Just put it in my drive way.

  • yenko

  • i want one!!!

  • thats right ricers, youd beter run.

  • So you put a ZL1 engine in a Yenko Camaro? Because the 427s that Yenko put in Camaros were all the L-72 425hp version. ZL1 Camaros weren't a Yenko thing. ZL1 was a COPO number that you could order, if you knew the number. There were only 69 of them made in 1969 (and two Corvettes). Nice car though, sounds great.

  • @brettt777 You have it backwards. The body is a regular 1969 SS camaro big block car. The engine was a ZL-1 that was cast sometime in the early to mid 70's by Don Yenko. After Chevy stopped producing the ZL-1 they sold/licensed the Winter's foundry casting for the block to Mr. Yenko and he sold them over the counter at his dealership. The casting is identical except for a slightly different part number and, of course, the 'Yenko' emblem on the block.

  • @boochkn you have it wrong.the aluminum block was sold in 69.Berger Chev in GR mich was really the back door to the factory.berger had a copy of the corvette and the camaro.i was taking a vacation in the far east at the time and missed some of the street racing.i was back home for "autorama"in 1970 and the bare block was displayed and for sale for $1100.i drooled but that was all i could do.buy the way,very nice car!

  • @brettt777 COPO 9560 (69 Produced) was the Order number on a ZL1 430hp. The 9561 (1015 produced) was was the L72 verison Mark IV L72 Cast Iron V8 425hp .

  • Damn nice  Rex.

  • the zl1 engines were awesome!!!!

  • i here chevy did not make too many ZL-1s

    is it a clone?

  • @mccrackenphillip , 69  Copo's with ZL-1's were made and sold

  • @acemaster1001 ZL 1s where very different than Yenkos; one car was COPO 9560 the other was COPO 9561 I forget which one was which number. Most ZL 1s were pretty plain and Chevy's idea while the Yenko was indeed a man's idea, both pinacles; while the Yenkos where loaded up a little more. 1969 was a very good year @ Chevrolet for performance machines. Zl 1, L88, Yenkos, Baldwin, Motion to name a few high water marks. To live those days again when they were new!

  • @thegreenerthemeaner , I never said anything about YENKO's? I said 69 copo camaro's with ZL1's were sold. AKA 69 1969 copo camaro's were sold with a ZL1's Vs a L72 427/425 hp. No need to try and teach me lol Im pretty decent with this sort of stuff.

  • @thegreenerthemeaner i actually live 15 min fron the yenko dealership which is now yenko honda. and the 69 zl1 was a special car with only 69 produced that year. and they were a-mazing i love this car

  • @mccrackenphillip therre were origionally 69 "zl-1" made by Fred Gibb Chevrolet in La Harpe, IL. the engine was made at the dealership and put in by the dealership. the motor alone was $4000. but now the car can go for over $150,000

  • @babcack I remember Fred being instrumental in the ZL1 development and actually taking delivery of some of them, but I don't recall the entire run of engines being built there; not saying it wasn't true in the development stages. I do recall the added extras that brought most ZL1s to the $8,000 and more mark. This when an average optioned SS would sticker for less than $3900.

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  • @acemaster1001 Without Fred Gibb and Vince Piggins, the ZL-1 would have never been built.

  • Any big block with solid lifter cam could have the L89 option;Aluminum Heads. 69 Yenkos had L72 425hp 427, HD 12 bolt Posi to mention a few. TH400 only? Maybe there were more but there are some manuals out there. Yenkos were offered with the L89 option but was not part of the "standard" package.

  • Mamamia!!

  • @machone7I Excuse me i mean the 68 Camaro 0-60 in 8 flat, 15.4 in the quarter.

  • @the934x4 I mean 67 Camaro, Not 68. Wow, double mess up

  • @machone7I The boss 429's were speedway motors which thrived on high revs, and true to ford quality were initially fitted with the wrong valve springs and stopped winding at 4500 rpms, 700 rpms before peak hp was made. And btw a 68 Camaro with a 350 was directly comparable in speed to a 68 GT w/ the 390 BB

  • In my opinion if americans were ever to compete in eurovision (which they cant, i know...) it would have to be with this :P.

  • thats not anything but ugly

  • That's hot,

  • nicee

  • GM made the ZL1, not Yenko. Yenko was a dealership. GM made 69 ZL1 Camaros and 2 ZL1 Corvettes in 1969. The Camaros looked just like a 6 banger on the outside, except for the dual exhaust and cowl hood. It was also only offered with a TH400. I'm just curious why Yenko was even mentioned in the title when they had nothing to do with the car. Was the engine ordered though the dealer, or the car originally bought there without the Yenko package?

  • excuse me everyone, But I need a minute in the bathroom to rub one out!!!! Absolute BEAST!!!!

  • @bluesbrothermike

    that was a good one :D:D

  • Friend of mine had one of these ...which he RARELY drove..he knew it was gonna be worth the bux..he hadda sell it when his mom got cancer...I remember a couple times he was revvin it in the driveway..it was a surly beast.

  • The red interior and rag top GOTS TA GO!

  • That was a brutal beast, but it is also a beauty!

  • awesome car! in argentina whis cars are extremely rare, i only seen one in my life

  • Beautiful ride!

  • Thank you for not molesting that car with giant wheels...

  • @jimbo98z "thank you for not prostreeting it"

  • super 40 series flowmasters?

  • I dig it. 

  • THats the Sexy beast i've ever seen! Holy Shit... That car belong on route 666... xD

    Such a devilish beauty... Who ever owns that is a lucky fuck!

  • fucken excellent car man , you should do up a nice burnout vid !

  • ill trade u two kids and a wife

  • @dmavericks41 Throw in a lawnmower + a coffee maker and you got yourself a deal! :)

  • @firebat42 lol ok

  • Fred Gibb Chevrolet  ordered 50 of the ZL1 Camaros with an additional 19 by other dealers which brought the total number to 69. Yenko go zero of these cars. Not one Yenko had a ZL1 in 69. Of the first 50 a bunch were sent back to the factory to be shipped to other dealers.

  • Sweet fucking ride!

  • Holy goddamn shit, that ZL-1 engine is worth a fucking fortune.

  • @conurelover thier were 69 of them

  • @gittyupalice96 I'm only 15, so I don't think age matters. haha just do some reading.

  • The ZL1 had a slightly larger camshaft than the L88, open chambered heads which were worth at least 20 more hp over closed chamber and the weight savings over cast iron. An L88 weighed what a small block weighed, I believe the aluminum blocked ZL1 weighed approx 100 lbs less than an iron blocked L88, correct me please. I remeber a test on the then new LS6 Chevelle with headers only adding 50 hp. The LS6 had a flat intake so it could be placed into the Vette, though it wasn't. Headers on a ZL1!?

  • nice ss, although i think i would of gone with the LS6 instead.. hahaha but thats just me.

  • @gittyupalice96

    no, I think you'd want the ZL1.

    a 427, not cast iron, but alluminum.

    stock ZL1 camaro's got low 13s in the 1/4 mile, throw some slicks and bigger exhaust and it was low 11s.

    there's a good amount of history behind the ZL1, and they're rare as ever. only like, 4,000 were put in camaros, and only 2 were put in 'vettes, even though it was originally for the corvette.

    if you can get your hands on a ZL1, don't let go. haha

  • @HelloDrBob lol im only 17 so i dont know much about the engines back then. but sounds pretty mint

  • @HelloDrBob it was wayy less than 4000. and yeah id rather have a zl1 too. ls6's are soooo mass appeal and all you see in magazines is about hos some guy put a ls series in a camaro. whoop dee doo. how often do you see an actual zl1? i mean for the feel and the sheer power, and the streed credability it doesnt get any better, too bad the crate zl1's were like 20 grand or something though

  • Wicked.....Nasty.....Sounds just right to me...

  • thats sexed

  • drive to germany and park that car in my garage please ;)

    *thumbs_up

  • now thats how a car should sound

  • first thing i would do is take off the 427 emblems put on 350 or 327 for sleeper effect

  • it sounds fine just like that!!!

  • That's the sound of a very ratty RAT! It just might have rabies too. Very nice.

  • Badass

  • ZL1 = OMG (listen that thing - jesus!!! that engine is badass TODAY, but imagine that engine - only actually in 1969...)

  • Sweet! what more could be said?

  • beautiful car my friend camaro yenko and mustang boss i loveeeee

  • i just beat off to this

  • damn that sounds badass

  • not bad for a plastic top lol

  • This car is probably the best looking Camaro I have ever seen period

  • ...im in love...

  • is the timeing ok??? sounds a bit rough

  • @69Cabeast You are right, the car was still being dialed in a bit and not broken in when we shot the video.

  • @69Cabeast you dumb ass, this engine makes well over 550 hp bone stock, thats called "cam lope" not timing!

  • @collegeparkwhiteboy cam lope or not it still effects timing, timing is everything without it even the mighty ZL1 would be a giant paper weight

  • @69Cabeast nothing wrong with that sound at all!!!!!!!!! lol

  • @69Cabeast sounds like a camshaft ever herd one before

  • @swaedfrytuoi nice comment you dig that one up yourself? ya Ive heard a cam shaft its either off time or the sound quality of the vid sucks something doesnt sound right sounds like the car is about to stall just sitting there and if you look below my question was already answered it was dialed in and the time and wasn't broken in yet.

  • @69Cabeast Idle sounds a bit too low for that healthy of a cam, maybe retarded like you said. Minor tweak. I'd sure like to hear it snap a few rev's. Right now it sounds like a carb backfire waiting to happen.

  • little bit of SS from all different cars ?

  • that is one nice car!!!!!

  • Man, when I was 17 i had a chance to buy a wrecked yenko a neighbor had that was a bit rusty an weatherd. If I only knew the what i know now....

  • The ZL1 is also the rarest block. So if you can build one. You should. I have an L88. AND LOVE IT.

  • I really wish people would just STFU if they don't know what they're talking about. A Yenko block is a "Winters" block, with the snowflake on it designating an aluminum INTERNALLY balanced 427. You couldn't and CAN'T build anything cooler for any price. Especially if you're a Camaro fan. Props on the ZL1 block, you know how to do it.

  • Here today on the discovery channel we have the Shelby's natural predator.

  • haha epic :)

  • @Greendude33 This is one of the best comments I have seen on here for a while :)

  • @Greendude33 hell yaah lol ( nationa geographic theme plays) and it goes for the kill

  • looks great, sound's great. Good job.

  • yeah but your wishing you had a true yenko

  • i thought the yenkos woulden't come with anything bigger than 400CI

  • after 67 they did

  • Not a Yenko or a true ZL1, You could not get a ZL1 in either version. The ZL1 was only available as a COPO order on a base camaro if my memory serves me correctly. Still, if it is a true ZL1 under the hood, the engine is worth more then the car is.

  • The ZL-1's are even more rare than the Yenko's and therefor, a lot more worth !

    I wouldn't sell that car in a thousand years ;)

  • bullshit this car is no where near 100K its not even a real yenko

  • i sure wouldnt pay 100k for it, or 50.

  • u are very luck bro the motor along is worth 50k if i remember correct at the an auction. this car can go from 100K to as high as 800K at auction.

  • are the mufflers super 40's? thanks

  • I never knew Yenko did any ZL-1's I thought Dick Harrel had access to them and then they where replacement motors upuntil 2000

  • I'm not positive here but I think that a yenko camaro and a ZL1 camaro are different. If I'm not mistaken, the yenko took the 427 block and put alluminum heads on it. I believe the ZL1 was all alluminum block and all. That was built by chevy themselves as copo cars. Again not 100%.

  • yenkos and true ZL1s are completely different. the ZL1 was only available directly through chevy. yenko did his own cars at his own dealership.

  • Yenko's and ZL1's are different. Yenko put aluminum heads on the 427 block and the ZL1 was all aluminum and built by Chevrolet legally by COPO

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  • next time your filiming just let me know when and where

  • If this was a real yenko it would be worth

    100K or more and the car would most likely be sitting a garage. But I must say sound badass and i would love to own it.

  • Any 1st Gen Camaro with a ZL1 in it will be worth a lot. Even if it's not an original COPO . Since they only made 69 of them they are very rare. Chevy is selling anniversary ZL1 427 aluminum engines now. Get your limited edition Anniversary ZL1 now and drop it in a 1st Gen Camaro kids!!!

  • I really thought that this would be obvious from the title and the description....

  • Title updated...

    Now all is perfect! ;)

  • @boochkn here's your sign lol

  • @boochkn they would have to be able to read !! lol

  • @boochkn some people are just stupid...

  • @boochkn if youre just looking at the thumbnail, its says its a yenko with a 427. so its understandable. should have titled it "1969 camaro ss zl-1"

  • how do you know that its not a Yenko? Oh wait the title of the video says so.

  • @bigpencap

    If it is a yenko then it will had yenko logo on it!

    Its just a 69 camaro ss. Not a yenko.

  • @ClassicDragRace he didn't say it was a Yenko

  • how do you know if its a yenko version?

  • Hemi eater!

  • everything eater.

  • check out my vids of this camaro ,but 1100hp at drag races... enjoy! ;)

  • Boss 429 killer right there. Ford had nothing on the ZL1.

  • You mention that the engine is an "aluminum" 427. Does this mean it is a ZL-1 engine or a Chevy aluminum crate engine?? I assume the stock engine was cast iron...

  • Pop off the steering wheel, rotate 88 deg. clockwise.

  • Well, I now have to change my pants..

  • thts hella fukin sick

  • that is my dream car...... :(

  • beautiful car...this goes to show you that they dont make em like they used to.

  • try around 40,000 no numbers matching and not original. you find one with this yenko motor original of coursed beefed up with all nubers matching i have seen them go at auction for 150,000 dollars. auction on tv im sure most of us has seen that auction show. lots of cars go for thousands and some times millions depending on what it is and what there selling. its crazy how much some of them go for. one car went for 2 millio 100 percent unrestored rusty but trust they called it 1932 coupe

  • So how would this be numbers matching if the Yenko ZL-1 wasn't even concieved until after Chevy discontinued using the ZL-1 casting and Don Yenko bought the rights to use it?? Obviously you wouldn't put this engine into a numbers matching car but it makes sense in this case.

  • you know i didnt realy think of that lol. my bad. i didnt know they were aluminium either lol. i thought the yenko's were all iron as well as the stock engines.

  • nice ride

  • THANK YOU FOR NOT PUTTING SHINNY CHROME RIMS ON THIS!!!! ITS SO ANNOYING HOW PEOPLE RUIN BEAUTIFUL CARS BY THROWING "20's" on it

  • the sound turns me on lol

  • unique!!

  • euu baby thats a sweet one

  • Sounds great, nice camaro

  • man ive gotta get me 1 of these puppies

  • ti get a real one, not a replica...

    i hope you have a very very deep pocket

  • the most amazing car ever made

  • Next to the ZL1 camaro.

  • That is by far one of the best cars I have ever seen....ever!

  • sweet, but i was hoping when you went to the door it was to get in and mash the go pedal. let's hurt those back tires! sure sounds good.

  • does this car have bout 535 HP ?

  • That, that my friends IS heavy-metal- thunder!

  • Nice. He doesn'y want to see me from a stop light tho lol.

  • gorgus car.totallie bad ass

  • how much did that car cost you?

  • Beautiful Camaro! 3 thumbs up!!

  • perfection

  • BEAST. That thing sounds wicked.

  • if i ever win the lotto....

  • Not a big Chevy fan, but that is a bad ass car! Well done!

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  • Nope, the Yenko badged ZL-1s came out after Chevy stopped using the casting and Don Yenko bought the rights to cast his version...think the tooling stayed the same.

  • @jrzy49 actually the zl1's were aluminum and the yenko was cast iron, everything else was the same

  • thats a bad mother right there!!!

  • Charger rims? Put the rally wheels on it, and you got a Camaro.

  • 30 seconds to the gallon.

  • Very nice! However if there's one thing I would change, would be the wheels. Put the rally wheels and it would be perfect! LOL. But maybe thats just me.

  • I was hoping to hear it go 'vrooooom, vrooooom.....VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.'

  • "One day I'll a car that bad ass, I'll be chirping gears and pulling brodies..."-Joe Dirt

  • LOL, nice.

  • Best comment ever! :)

  • owned it

  • Ther is a company thats making these brand new right now. All new. 140,000.00 All yours

  • not a yenko camaro lol

  • what company?

  • noy true chevy makes a 69 kit but not the z-28 and it was going for 80000 last time i checked

  • Dynacorn makesm the reproduction shells that all the companies are using to reproduce these cars you can buy the shell from Dynacorn for 13,500. and build it yourself.

  • WHAT UR SHITTING ME WHERE???

  • its not worth the wasted gas.

  • Do you like embarrassment?