Documentation
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Safety Car
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Documentation
What is the standard for documentation?
Reading the post about the 67 BB at the BJ auction, made me think about documentation.
I bought my '64 in '68 in Pennsylvania. I have a photo copy of the original 1968 PA title. I also have the original (not a copy) PA title when I later titled the car as a classic car. My car is now titled as a classic in Florida.
So, I have the actual titles or copies of the titles all the way back to 1968.
Is this considered acceptable documentation for that range of time?
I'd love to have documentation from '64 to '68, but I think there is a slim chance of that.
Because of the Yenko back seat and the name (same name as a friend of Yenko) on a battery warranty card from 1966 in the glove box, my theory is my car was a Yenko dealership demo car. I wish I could get more information.
Any ideas?
Scroll half way down this page to see the seat:
http://www.yenko.net/oldads/oldads.htm
Tom Piper
Reading the post about the 67 BB at the BJ auction, made me think about documentation.
I bought my '64 in '68 in Pennsylvania. I have a photo copy of the original 1968 PA title. I also have the original (not a copy) PA title when I later titled the car as a classic car. My car is now titled as a classic in Florida.
So, I have the actual titles or copies of the titles all the way back to 1968.
Is this considered acceptable documentation for that range of time?
I'd love to have documentation from '64 to '68, but I think there is a slim chance of that.
Because of the Yenko back seat and the name (same name as a friend of Yenko) on a battery warranty card from 1966 in the glove box, my theory is my car was a Yenko dealership demo car. I wish I could get more information.
Any ideas?
Scroll half way down this page to see the seat:
http://www.yenko.net/oldads/oldads.htm
Tom Piper
Last edited by Tom Piper; Feb 9, 2005 at 07:26 PM.
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all that tiltle means is that you owend that car since then. and know one else did and it is a 2? owner car.
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Tom,
My 66 convertible has the selling dealer's information (which is Yenko Chevrolet) written into the warranty booklet (along with the protect-o-plate). I would assume that if Yenko sold the car your's would also have it...
My 66 convertible has the selling dealer's information (which is Yenko Chevrolet) written into the warranty booklet (along with the protect-o-plate). I would assume that if Yenko sold the car your's would also have it...
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If it`s a high dollar piece, probably a good documentation would be the original window sticker listing all the RPO extras and serial # of the car. And or the original bill of sale. As that too would have all the RPO`s and serial #. The title will only have the serial # pertaining to ownership only, not the options that the car was built with. Tough to find as many were sold over and over. But the only positive way to confirm it`s originality instead of a often cloned popular classic. 
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Originally Posted by Denney
Tom,
My 66 convertible has the selling dealer's information (which is Yenko Chevrolet) written into the warranty booklet (along with the protect-o-plate). I would assume that if Yenko sold the car your's would also have it...
My 66 convertible has the selling dealer's information (which is Yenko Chevrolet) written into the warranty booklet (along with the protect-o-plate). I would assume that if Yenko sold the car your's would also have it...
I purchased the car at a Chevrolet dealer in Blairsville, Pa in 1968. The dealer is long gone (Bob and Dale Chevrolet).
They told me the seat was put in the car by Yenko -- at the time, being in my late teens, a back seat for kids seemed unimportant and I didn't even listen much to what they had to say about it, and the word "Yenko" didn't mean much to me then.
I've been in contact with Donna Mae Mims, http://www.steeltownvette.com/Hall%20of%20Fame/Mims.htm, a popular female race car driver of that time and quite a lady, that worked in the Yenko dealership and knows about the seat (I sent her a picture). She was quite suprised to see it -- she hadn't thought about that seat in many years.
Tom Piper
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Donna Mae is still active in SCCA racing, now as an official & worker. Seen her at a couple of different tracks in the past year. One of my "older" SCCA friends is still madly in love with her, even after 40+ years.
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Melting Slicks
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From: atlanta ga
anything can be used as documentation if it proves what you have. a picture of the original owner standing buy the car when he bought it. a recipt book for oil changes from the year it was built showing engine size. original sticker, waranty book, tank sticker, build sheet, protecto plate, original invoice, old pictures of the car... anything that proves what you have. the more you have the better.