Some old pictures..

[pancake]

I went back to my parents house for the holidays this past year and I scanned a bunch of pictures from my dad's old car photo album. There is some neat history in there since he worked at Yenko Chevy from '76 - '79 and worked on the Yenko-Mason race team.

I think these photos are from Mid-Ohio.. You race veterans might know. I bet they were taken either with an old polaroid or a kodak 110 cause they suck! haha

**It looks like that finishline stand says Manitowoc.. **

 

[pancake]

And then there were some of his cars..

'68 Corvette.. Was originally a 327 4 speed car and he put a 427 m22 in it and painted it like a bad 70's american flag...






A 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury he had in high school and up until he was drafted in '68... It was a 383 4 speed with super stock springs, super stock torsion bars, those cast iron fender well headers.. reverse chrome wheels.. My grandparents took it, forged his name on the title, and traded it for a slant six dart swinger for my uncle while the old man was overseas. They sent these photos to him.. which still pisses him off to this day.






And he had a 914 Porsche when I was a kid.. I can't remember what year. It was originally a 2.0 with the bosch fi that he took off and put webers on..

 

[mrvette]

Good going man, GREAT legacy to have, there are NO pix of any of my old cars that I know of, just this vette......nothing antique at all.....

Enjoy......neat stuffs to show your kids too....

 

[pancake]

Good going man, GREAT legacy to have, there are NO pix of any of my old cars that I know of, just this vette......nothing antique at all.....

Enjoy......neat stuffs to show your kids too....

He's got an old yellow legal tablet with something like 150 cars written on it that he has owned... and there were pictures of about six of them. I am a lot like that.. I don't have pictures of much.

It was pretty cool, though. There is one picture that the whole race team is leaning on the roof of the car and we cannot find that damn thing anywhere. Go figure.

Here's another good one. Count the head bolts... Promo photo. Pretty cool parts, though.. Winter's casting heads and block.. Hillborn injection, Bassett headers.. They were building and shipping those engines to Florida for somebody's drag boat team.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

really cool stuff

 

[mrvette]

Good going man, GREAT legacy to have, there are NO pix of any of my old cars that I know of, just this vette......nothing antique at all.....

Enjoy......neat stuffs to show your kids too....

He's got an old yellow legal tablet with something like 150 cars written on it that he has owned... and there were pictures of about six of them. I am a lot like that.. I don't have pictures of much.

It was pretty cool, though. There is one picture that the whole race team is leaning on the roof of the car and we cannot find that damn thing anywhere. Go figure.

Here's another good one. Count the head bolts... Promo photo. Pretty cool parts, though.. Winter's casting heads and block.. Hillborn injection, Bassett headers.. They were building and shipping those engines to Florida for somebody's drag boat team.]

Drag boat, Florida, wonder if they used Lauderbach Marine jet drives???

I met his son, Hank Lauderbach years ago....ran a repair shop in Bethesda Md....Hank had a cammed up 350 in a Anglia, with power slide auto....

So he calls this customer to pick up his car, parks it on the street out front, into the shop working on the Anglia, it slips into reverse and takes off into the customer's car......Hank runs to the phone and calls customer back saying it was a mistake.....just caught the guy on the way out the door....so for some days Hank is doing body work, apparently the customer never noticed.....

Another friend is down the road a good bit in Cocoa Florida, drove a airboat....krazy bastard took it out on the roads in Maryland, in a snowstorm, he was zipping right along, the cops knew who it was, and so just drove to Charlies house and waited for him.....he used to work on the fire EMT squad river rescue craft....had a 500 inch modified caddy engine in his boat....wonder if he still has that old Ford station wagon he towed it with.....

As usual, no pictures....wonder if another friend may have some, if he does, maybe I can copy paste.....

 

[denpo]

....until he was drafted in '68 ... My grandparents took it, forged his name on the title, and traded it for a slant six dart swinger for my uncle while the old man was overseas......

Jeez, that was a dick move. I bet on the pic it's grampa showing how he love the car.

Thanks man for sharing, those pics are really sweet (and not that crappy).

 

[GT6Steve]

Wonderful pics!

I think I see the Group 44 GT6 at the left of the first picture. Seems to be a TR7 to the right along with a Buick Grand Am???:tomato:

 

[pancake]

....until he was drafted in '68 ... My grandparents took it, forged his name on the title, and traded it for a slant six dart swinger for my uncle while the old man was overseas......

Jeez, that was a dick move. I bet on the pic it's grampa showing how he love the car.

Thanks man for sharing, those pics are really sweet (and not that crappy).

According to the old man, my grandad hated that car. That particular picture pisses the old man off because his crossram manifold with dual carters is gone and has been replaced with a single carb manifold.

The other thing I notice is look at his skin complexion.. has a touch of blue. I don't know why it didn't come through on these, but all those pictures were stamped July 1969.. My grandad died in 1970 on his way home from work.. had a heart attack on the side of the road in his pontiac. That's what smoking a pack a day and sopping up bacon grease with toast will do, though.

 

[pancake]

Wonderful pics!

I think I see the Group 44 GT6 at the left of the first picture. Seems to be a TR7 to the right along with a Buick Grand Am???:tomato:

I can't see how a tr7 could ever run with any of the v8 cars of that vintage.. I had one and it was a dog. It might be a tr8, though? But I really have no idea.

I don't see a grand am.. but that #11 car is the Nova Don Yenko raced.. I think my old man said those pictures were from 1978 but I am not 100% positive.

 

[Rod75]

Great pics and history! Thanx for sharing! :1st: