<VV> Dana Corvair

[Bob Dunahugh]

Fruit for thought. Are tag cars real stingers. People could order a tag from Yenko, and then put it on their Corsa, Monza, 500 coupe or 4 door. Is that a real stinger? The AIR thing, the west coast people can answer that. The 140 engine had a QF on it. There were only 6 made in 67. 140 with A.I.R. When I talked to Kevin  when he had it. He called it a stinger. I've seen old adds that called them stingers. The deal died back in 67. But I agree,  him calling it a stinger, didn't make it a stinger.  Anyway, Are tag cars real stingers?  Bob



Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:22:58 -0700
From: yenko117 at yahoo.com
Subject: RE: <VV> Dana Corvair
To: fastvair at yahoogroups.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org; yenko108 at hotmail.com






 
 The performance of a Stage I (headers, jetted carbs and individual air filters) versus a 140 with A.I.R. is going to be appreciable. I don't see how you can say it's the same thing. I've seen pics of the docs - it came with an A.I.R. system - it was an additional COPO option.
  The COPO ZL-1 guys don't call their cars Yenko's - neither do the Nickey nor the Gibb COPO car owners. I do agree that it is very special and rare, being a Dana COPO - maybe even more so than the YS's. So why discount it to a YS, when it's just not?
 For years I looked for one of the unmodified - not tagged - COPO '67 Monzas that went to Yenko Chevrolet. If I found one, I wouldn't call it a Stinger - it's not - never was. 
 
 Mike
 YS-117
 

--- On Tue, 9/6/11, Bob Dunahugh <yenko108 at hotmail.com> wrote:



 The first time I saw the car was about 10 years ago, and it was described then as a Dana stinger.  It's has been written up in a lot of publications, and has also done a lot of good PR for the Yenko Stingers. The car and owner have been good for the Corvair and stinger world as I see i
  Yes, California cars came with A.I.R. systems. And mind did not. I don't think that difference has anything to do with what the cars are or were. And since the A.I.R. system was mandated by the feds., it probable wouldn't been listed as an option. The people out West can clarify that detail for us. So, one of my questions was. What is the simplest way to describes the car, as a car ordered as the stinger was, a COPO,  went to Dana, and wasn't just another Corvair. And this is what you would say to the general public without talking for 20 minutes. Like I said before, Dana and Yenko knew their intent of their business plain. The only thing I want is to see the web site yenkostinger.org do, is put the history of performance Corvairs out to the public as clear and complete as we can. Ed Cunneen has put a lot of time and money into this web site. Lets all try to help were we can. That's my 2 cents.   Bob Dunahugh

> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:21:52 -0700
> From: yenko117 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: <VV> Dana Corvair
> To: fastvair at yahoogroups.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org; yenko108 at hotmail.com
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> There is no historical context to call it a Stinger. Dana never called it a Stinger. Even it's P.O's Kevin never called it a Stinger. Kasey has decided to call it a Stinger - that doesn't make it a Stinger. 
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> It was not ordered identical to your 108, nor my 117 - it was ordered with an A.I.R. package, as it was sold in California.
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> Mike
> YS-117
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