<VV> Dana Corvair

[Bob Dunahugh]

The car has an interesting background  that has Yenko and Dana history intertwined together. I've read some of the paper trail. Mark and Curtis are correct, but it also comes down to, how do you describe something. The car was ordered from Chevrolet, identical to my 67 Yenko Stinger # 108. Same COPO #. The titles both say Chevrolet not Yenko. I have never seen a title that made reference to Yenko that I have heard of. Maybe Mark or Warren D. have. I'd like to know. I have 4 Yenko stingers. YS099, a 66, YS108, a 67, YS9700, a 69, and YS101, a 66 tag car. I wanted to have all 4 types. ( I have a vary understanding wife. She has her cars, I have mine.) The tag car was sold at Yenko as used in 1966, and the body tag indicates that it must have been in a fleet order. Thus, a COPO. It IS NOT IN ANY WAY related to the first 100.  NO, NO, and NO. It is a tag car. The guy wanted a red car, not white. It was that simple. I see stingers as, COPO Stingers, the first 100, and yes, not all of the first 100 have #'s under 100. 105 is one example of that. The 14  67 Stingers, and yes there were 11 cars in that order that weren't converted at Yenko. The COPO 69 Goodyear car. Then the tag cars. The tags could be put on any car you wanted. The plan there was to allow a car owner  to go racing as a 2 seat sports car. Now to the definition of a Stinger, now that the SCCA isn't involved. Most of the tag cars were never near the Yenko dealership. Some of the tag cars have more of a racing history then most COPO stingers. Then the COPO cars that went to Dana. If they would have been delivered to Yenko. They would have been identical to my #108 Stinger. ( by the way, I made a mistake, the Dana's had black interiors. Sorry ) So, if you call that car a Dana Corvair, well, any Corvair sold by Dana, was a Dana Corvair. Thus referring to it as a Dana Stinger help's to describe the car in a simple manner. Is it a stinger? Only Yenko and Dana knew their final plans between them. But when I said Dana Stinger, some people knew exactly the car I was referring too.  I think it's the simplest way to describe the car, and retain it's part in the history of Yenko and his influence in the Corvair performance of other Chevy dealers. So, our web site yenkostinger.org is trying to cover more then just the stinger.  Personally, I love what is going on with the performance side of Corvairs. Stinger are interesting, but a little over rated, and I have 4. Any way, we're open for input and thought's. And any thought's on how to handle the Dana car without a 20 min. description.  Bob Dunahugh