Jay Leno's Garage: Yenko Stinger YS054

I've been waiting for this video ever since I heard he had bought YS054. I really think it's great that he has a small Corvair collection.

http://youtu.be/eTGayn3Y800

Nice, I drove YS097 through Mecum last year. I begged our guy who assigned cars for it......several others from the driver pool thought I was effin nuts.

A lot of people aren't aware of the Yenko Stinger. I've been around them all my life, but they're always awesome.

I used to go down to Cannonsburg and drool over them when I was in college. I grew up about an hour from there.

In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:

I'm right near Warren and Michael LeVeque of LeVair Performance, so I'm a rare outsider who knows about them.

Didn't realize Yenko Chevrolet was in Canonsburg. I live in Canonsburg.

Saw a Stinger run in an SCCA Regional at the old Airport circuit in Stuttgart, AR in the late 60's. Fast car.

My pops was a service rep for Chevy and Yenko was one of his dealerships. He has some fun stories about Don and the crew who worked there. My dad's company cars might have been used as a measuring stick a few times as they were working on new things. He got one of his best friends who worked at Yenko a job as a service rep as well when he decided to leave the dealership. That guy did the fiberglass work on the Stinger. Different times! I haven't seen the building in years, but last I was there it was in sad shape.