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[fictionkinfessions]

Fanon win of all fucking TIME is when people started drawing me and Knives with little elf ears, or some variation in the way our face bones sit to look more like the ethereal tristamp!style Plants 💯💯💯

Bonus points for that one post i saw once of someone making a joke about our skeletons being entirely cartilaginous. Like you joke and you jest but I Think Youre Onto Something!!!!! I wasn't exactly an expert on cartilage so i didnt like. Check when anything got broken, i couldn't have known for sure, BUT. That might explain the untenable contortionist maneuvers i was capable of 💪😎!!!

I just adore all of the art and writing that really leans into how we ARENT entirely human... bc If there's one thing thats Always bugged me in scifi media, its when stories go "hey look at this alien!" Like they didnt just put a normal, plain-bread human being in front of me. GET REAL!!! WE WERE BOTH FREAKS OF NATURE AND THAT WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT US!!! It's so fucked that even the Fandom will sometimes slide into this binary of "well if theres at least Some human in them, then we may as well treat them as Completely human, except for Knives who gets to be considered More Plant *only* because he actively rejects the human part of him", which I can see having good intentions but liekkkk....., it's not *true to 'life'*, as it were? We were just like Rem said, another merger between the two species -- Nightow used the term "evolution" explicitly while describing how we and Tesla Happened in a tweet, iirc!! Taking the story and fan content in through that sort of lens definitely makes the extremely humanized depictions of me and my brother kind of disappointing to see. Like... youre missing out on what Actually makes us special to focus on the fact that canon-us are two conventionally attractive, blond haired, blue eyed, ambiguously "white" men who shoot guns real good and kill thousands in sweeping blows? And relegate the plants Entirely to just being Pretty Plot Devices?🤨📸

I liked both sides of me. I loved helping humans, and I loved helping my sisters. It was trying to do that under a hail of gunfire for an *takes deep breath* ENTIRE CENTURYYYYY‼‼‼ That made it so difficult and dangerous! I had the plot!! I HAD THE PLOT!! Call me idealistic call me unrealistic idgaf BETTER WORLDS ARE POSSIBLE! The barriers stopping us are the ones we built around our own hearts, the ones that keep us from being honest and working together our of fear of getting hurt!! Anyway.

Me and my brother were a fair bit less humanoid, from what i can remember. Im just happy to see that idea Spread, to see all the Different ways people can imagine us, thousands of forms and shapes and all the shenanigans that could ensue from them -- even if it makes me even Less invested in the more visually human-y interpretations including all three canons whoa what who said that 💀👌 --Vash the Stampede 🌅

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[scwmedicath]

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[commander-frostii]

Hello Commander! Do you have any advice for fielding Famas? She's one if my favorite designs but when you have her on the table she just doesn't seem to really measure up to other ARs of her type. Right now I'm using her with Shrimp in b formation to buff accuracy. Do you have any other recommendations that might make better use of her? :

Um. Shrimp? Who’s - I’m sorry, I don’t know of any - I assume you mean some kind of offensive SMG, but the only offensive SMGs I know of right now are Vector and SCW. You’re - not talking about the Bunny Gremlin, right? Nah, you must not be. Must be Vector or something. 

Anyway, great question! FAMAS is one of my favorite ARs too! I also recall seeing in other Commanders’ analyses that she isn’t considered to be very good. I think they’re pretty much just flat wrong and FAMAS is actually great. 

You already have her paired with a strong offensive SMG, so you’re already on the right track. One of FAMAS’ strengths is her fantastic formation buff. It only applies to one SMG, but its off-centered positioning lets another AR layer a second buff on top, so you can get some crazy combined buffs from FAMAS/G36 (55% damage, 60% accuracy, 10% RoF) or FAMAS/416 (65% damage, 60% accuracy). This is not a bad way of utilizing FAMAS, in that it’s something that she can do better than a lot of other ARs. 

Buuuut, that puts most of the excitement and emphasis on FAMAS’ frontline, while she serves more of a silent supporting role. If you want to see her pretty face on the MVP screen more often, then you’re going to want to do something a bit different. 

FAMAS is totally serviceable as a dps rifle, as long as your skirmishes are short and sweet so that self-buff ARs don’t have a chance to get massively ahead of her. Her FP is a bit low but her other stats are totally fine, and her high base RoF in particular is a strength she can work with. Equipping her with a powerful HV mag and enhancing it early is going to make a big difference in her effectiveness, and can go a long way in bridging the gap between her and other ARs in midgame. It might be tempting to use an EOT sight to boost her FP further, but don’t fall for it - a critical scope is pretty much always a better choice on ARs, and FAMAS is no exception. It’s also very important to enhance FAMAS’s skill and get its multiplier up as high as possible; FAMAS’ grenade trades raw damage for a much larger AoE, and you want that secondary 2.5 yard zone to be strong enough to drop enemies by itself if you can manage it. 

You can also improve her performance by being smart about choosing her teammates, which is most of what I usually focus on since it’s what matters most in endgame. RoF formation boosts do make a big difference on her, and with a little help from a friendly SMG she can push the fire rate cap, which is commendable on its own - high RoF means fast target switching and more efficient target clears; in fact, FAMAS only needs a 10% RoF boost to outdamage SOP-II, so that tells you just how strong she is by herself. But obviously she also does want as much FP as she can get her hands on, not only to compensate for her relatively lower base stat but also to improve the power of her grenade, since it actually really needs the help.

Here’s probably the best setup I’ve got so far. Type97 is just kind of a filler choice - any other AR will do; UMP45 is a default option but you can use any other SMG you like, Thompson might be a good choice for example. The important parts of this are Type 79 and Ribeyrolles. If you don’t have 79, MT-9 is a decent substitute as long as you got her from login while she was available; if you don’t have Ribey you can use M4A1 or AUG, but Ribey works much, much better for FAMAS because of her excellent skill. 

Type 79 and Ribey together buff FP by 40%, and Ribey’s skill (once maxed) gives her an additional 25% FP and RoF, and that bonus FP will also apply to FAMAS’ grenade. Type 79′s stun grenade also helps buy time while you’re waiting for FAMAS’ grenade to activate, and can make it easier to tank those long battles without taking a lot of damage. 

With the stacking formation buffs and Ribey’s excellent skill, FAMAS will function just fine as a general purpose rifle - but her strength is in her grenade, and specifically its wide area. Chapter 8 is starting to show us some encounters that are well suited to her, and I’m sure we’ll see more of them as time goes on. In the meantime, though, the singular best use of her grenade is against enemies with annoying dodge rates, since… y’know… you can’t dodge an explosion. 

[closetofanxiety]

Season’s Beatings: The Beat(ing) Goes On

It’s only Dec. 3, and it’s already hard to to comb through the rapidly growing thicket of Season’s Beatings references that are not related to wrestling: a hockey thing. A boxing tournament. A Southern California MMA promotion. Roller derby. A Twitter user who has adopted “Season’s Beatings” as his whimsical holiday handle, and who writes in all caps and has many things to say. Lots and lots and lots of fetish nights and dominatrixes (dominatrices?). 

But we all know that stuff is chaff that only obscures the true standard-bearers of the glorious name Season’s Beatings: super local indie wrestling promotions who put on shows where someone dresses up as Santa Claus and gets speared/spears someone.

Let’s celebrate the latest crop of heroes:

Venerable Montreal promotion IWS comes out of the gate strong with a poster that features Christmas lights and some wrestlers who will actually put on a good show. At their previous show, tag team champs and local heroes TDT dropped the belts to Tyler Bate and Trent Seven, who are now reportedly prohibited from working outside the WWE and WWE affiliates. Tabarnak! 

Last year, Salt Lake City’s UCW-Zero went for an artsy rendering of a muscular Santa, with no indication that the (genuinely nice-looking) poster was for a wrestling event. This year, they have done a 180, and come up with the most generic-ass Photoshop graphic imaginable. Although, just like last year, they don’t name a single wrestler. Maybe these wrestlers don’t need names? Maybe everyone in Salt Lake City just knows Viking Hat Guy and Guy With Hand Gestures and High School Drama Club Adam Cole, and the whole gang. This looks like the template of one of those Christmas cards you make on Shutterfly. I did that this year, by the way, and my Christmas card is a picture of Su Yung choking me. Can’t wait to hear what the Midwest cousins think! 

SCW Pro, “The Best Pro Wrestling Iowa Has to Offer,” comin’ at ya straight out of Davenport! Or, in this case, Walcott, at the fabled Walcott Coliseum. We talked about this last year (kudos to SCW Pro for making sure Season’s Beatings is an annual tradition), but I am not sure the people of Walcott, Iowa have a firm grasp on the definition of coliseum:

I mean, it’s a nice looking venue, probably a lot of fun for wrestling, but is it a coliseum? Anyway, the other thing I wanted to note is that SCW Pro has already run one show in December called Hawkamania (the Hawks, the college football team, etc.), featuring the pro wrestling debut of a linebacker from Iowa who played four seasons in the NFL named ... PAT ANGERER! HOLY MERCIFUL GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE! That’s his real name! PAT ANGERER

PAT 

FUCKING

ANGERER

God, Vince, SIGN THIS MAN AT ONCE. There is no better name in pro wrestling today. God, I hope Pat Angerer is at Season’s Beatings. ONLY THE WALCOTT COLISEUM IS LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD AN EVENT OF THIS MAGNITUDE.

The platonic ideal of “zero fucks given” when it comes to design, other than using some free-with-the-computer snowflake font, I still like that IWA Mid South is calling their show “Season’s Beatings.” Also, it’s on a Thursday, which I support. More wrestling shows should be on weeknights. Someone should write a book, or at least a lengthy oral history for a magazine, about the history of IWA Mid South. It’s a truly fascinating company. 

New Era Pro Wrestling is based out of Denver, and they are ready for some Season’s Beatings! This is also a Toys for Tots benefit, which should absolutely be a legal requirement for all Season’s Beatings shows. This is coming to you live from a comic book store, which seemed weird to me, but a friend who lives in Denver assures me the store is “fucking gigantic.” I’ve got tentative plans to go out and visit him next year, and the agenda includes shooting guns, visiting a ghost town, consuming legal pot brownies, and, since New Era boldly has posted their entire 2019 schedule online, going to a comic book shop to watch super local indie wrestling. Onward to 2019! 

[michaelcorderoes]

nobody cares but i think i'll post my scw gifset tomorrow 😔 my laptop is about to combust from loading episodes and screen capping and i haven't even started giffing yet... also i'm having friends over for movie night in a couple hours

Edit: I’ve given up, tired to be on my laptop all day. I’ll make them one day maybe

[itsworn]

In a Past Life, This Misty Turquoise 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 Was a 12-Second Drag Car

“I always wanted a Chevelle, and at the time I had no clue the car was rare at all,” says Jim Ross, owner of this stunning A-Body. “Seeing that color with the black stripes for the first time . . . well, my 20-year-old self just fell in love with it.” The paint is Misty Turquoise.

Fortunately, Jim had the wherewithal to pull the trigger on the nifty Chevelle SS. Since then he has never looked back. After 46 years Jim’s opinion of the car hasn’t changed. “I always loved the shape of the Chevelle, and I got lucky and got one with a big-block and a four-speed to boot.”

Built with the L34 396 packing 350 ponies, the Chevelle had plenty of power to get Jim in and out of trouble. “It was loud and fast,” he says. Well, that’s pretty much a blanket statement for what any real muscle car should be.

His Story

Jim, a lifelong resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, learned about the car from a friend in 1972. “This car was just three miles from my house. We went over to see it, and I bought it within two days for $2,000.” The two-year-old Chevelle had very low miles and was still stock—as in stocked with the goods from the factory.

The L34 was joined to a Muncie M21 close-ratio four-speed, and a 12-bolt Positraction rear with 3.42 gears spun the back meats. Black vinyl buckets gave the interior a sporty feel. On the corners were 14×7 Rally wheels fit with SS center caps and trim rings for a little bling where it counted.

Jim loved his new ride from the start, and it was his everyday driver for a year. Then the 21-year-old made a mature (and smart) decision. “I kept it as my daily driver, but took it off the road in the winter.” From that point on it would sit under a cover through the harsh Pennsylvania weather, out of harm’s way.

Race Daze

In 1974, Jim got the urge to hit the track, so the Chevy was set up to do a little quarter-mile drag racing. First he made the strange decision to change the car’s color palette. He ditched the Misty Turquoise and went with Midnight Blue and silver stripes for his racing colors.

Other modifications made for the dragstrip included swapping the factory intake and carb for an Edelbrock aluminum intake and a Holley 800-cfm carburetor. The factory exhaust manifolds were replaced with a set of Hooker Headers. With those changes Jim saw elapsed times drop a full second from stock, down to 13.56 seconds. But he wanted more. He ended up putting 4.88 gears in the 12-bolt and cutting the rear quarters for a set of Mickey Thompson 29.5×10.5 slicks. A Turbo 400 transmission now did the shifting. With this formula Jim got a personal best of 12.60 at 110 mph at the track.

After Jim was done with his quarter-mile adventures, he returned the car to its original color. To get it right, the painters clipped off a section of the original firewall, which was still coated in the factory color, and had it analyzed to get the correct hue. Once that was done, the sheetmetal was repaired and the car was once again sprayed in Misty Turquoise. As if he knew this would be the car’s trajectory all along, Jim had kept all the original parts he had taken off for racing, and put them back on.

Needy Chevy

Jim kept the car in good shape over the years, bringing it out on occasion to meet friends, but the years started taking a toll on the car’s body. It still had south of 40,000 miles, but the time had come to upgrade the exterior.

“I put the car in a body shop in 1999,” says Jim. There the car would sit for 10 years, with little being done.

Jim finally gave up and sent it to another shop. “I sent it to a second body shop for more than four years, and again, nothing was done.”

So it was pulled one more time and sent to a third shop. That’s where things really went south for the Chevelle. It was there for two years, and Jim got a tip that some of his original parts, including his front bucket seats, were being hijacked to finish another Chevelle project in the shop. That was the final straw for Jim. Lawyers as well as the state police were involved, and the Chevelle was pulled out immediately.

Finally Jim made the right call. He contacted Brian Henderson and Joe Swezey at Super Car Workshop right there in Latrobe, and talked to them about doing the Chevelle. Being Chevrolet muscle car experts, they were more than ready to put Jim on the right path. The car had already been painted, so much of the work would entail reassembling the car.

Jim jumped in and helped as well, taking a lot of the parts home with him to be restored, and showing up at the shop nightly to pitch in. SCW also helped refinish and repaint parts that were not completed, and worked on it over a two-month period to get the car finished.

The original 396 driveline was rebuilt by Joe Zeoli and Dave Reid at A1 Machine in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Jim himself cleaned up his original interior, which was still in great shape, but had the buckets reskinned by Weinmann Interior in Delmont, Pennsylvania, since they had been abused when they were abducted by the last shop owner.

Misty Again

After putting the car in the SCW shop in October, the Chevelle was finished in time for its official unveiling at Jim’s annual Christmas party. Now the car goes all over the Midwest for events. At its first show, hosted by the Northern Ohio Chevelle Club, the car won First Place, beating 230 other Chevy A-Bodies. It was also featured in the Solid Lifter Showroom at the Carlisle Chevrolet Nationals, sitting alongside other topnotch Super Car Workshop Chevrolets (“Someone Left a Show Out in the Rain,” Oct. 2018; Solid Lifter Showroom Is Place to Be at 2018 Carlisle Chevrolet Nationals).

Thanks go out to Joe and Brian at SCW and also Jamie and Griff at Super Car Restoration for their help bringing this superb Chevelle back to original form. It’s good to know that another rare muscle car is back on the streets where it belongs. “Misty” is playing once again, and Jim just couldn’t be happier.

At a Glance 1970 Chevelle SS Owned by: Jim and Lee Ann Ross Restored by: Super Car Workshop, Latrobe, PA; Super Car Restoration, Clymer, PA; A1 Machine, Greensburg, PA Engine: 1970 396ci/350hp L34 V-8 Transmission: M21 close-ratio 4-speed manual Rearend: 12-bolt with 3.31 gears and Positraction Interior: Black vinyl bucket seats with console Wheels: 14×7 5-spoke Super Sport with SS center caps and trim rings Tires: F70-14 Goodyear Polyglas reproduction Special parts: Cowl induction hood (with flapper), Misty Turquoise paint

Though he loved the original Code 34 Misty Turquoise paint with black stripes, Jim Ross repainted the car Midnight Blue with silver stripes when he ran the local quarter-mile strips. It was repainted to stock once its racing years were over.

The SS retains its born-with L34 396. The low-mileage big-block was in reasonably good shape when it was torn down for a complete rebuild, although 20 years of racing had put quite a few years on the potent mill.

Few options were ordered when this car was purchased new. Ticking the RL2 box got you the cowl induction hood and the D88 hood and deck stripes.

Michelle Kozusko photo The lightly used interior needed little to get back in tiptop shape. Unfortunately, a restoration shop had abducted his original bucket seats. Jim got them back, but they were battered and in need of a full reskin.

Jim reused his five-spoke Super Sport wheels and shod them in repop F70-14 Goodyear bias-ply tires.

With south of 40,000 original miles, Jim’s Misty Turquoise Chevelle is one striking big-block Chevy muscle car.

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[itsworn]

Original Owners Buy, Sell, Rebuy & Restore Rare 1968 Yenko Super Camaro

George Edwards married Miss Carol Vishnesky on July 6, 1968. They intended to make a honeymoon drive in their new car from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Niagara Falls, then down to the Atlantic shore, making a stop at Maryland’s Cecil County Dragway as part of the excursion. They had big dreams and a great relationship, which have kept them together to this day.

This 1968 Yenko Super Camaro is the car they bought new and took on their honeymoon. It replaced his Corvette, which did not seem to be super-practical as a family car as the big day approached.

“We were drag racing on the street almost every night, frequently racing our small-block Corvette,” George recalls. “We really wanted to be able to run with the big boy’s toys, so when I heard that Roy Stauffer’s Chevrolet in Scranton had two 427 Camaros, I couldn’t wait to get a look. I never heard of Yenko and didn’t really care who he was. All I knew was that it had a 427 stuffed under the hood. The purchase proved to be just what the doctor ordered, with Carol in the passenger’s seat calling off the numbers. We beat everything—big-block Corvettes, Hemi cars, GTOs, and the list goes on.”

Their honeymoon trip included a stop at “the Traction Capitol of the East,” as Cecil was known back then. In the pits, George parked next to some guy named Jenkins that day; the NHRA-legal Grumpy’s Toy RS/SS drag car was also on hand making laps, and the Grump was there driving.

During the following couple of years, George made his Yenko a little quicker. He moved up into Modified Production with a monster hoodscoop and tunnel-ram. The rear also had 5.13 gears, which Carol learned to deal with as she made her way to the laundromat and such, as this was their daily driver. When family responsibilities grew, they sold the car for more practical wheels. It went to a local performance fan who never did much with it. Some of the parts that had come off the car, such as the original hood, were tucked away for safekeeping.

Like many people, George never lost his love for cars and did some restorations for fun, including a real 1937 coffin-nose Cord 812. Meanwhile he made occasional inquiries about the old “green machine” stored in a garage not far from home. Finally he was able to bring it back into the fold, a little worse for wear.

Those who know 1968 Yenkos will tell you they are not simple cars to restore. George tackled it head-on, but as he began his work, he realized it needed to be done right. He called Brian Henderson and Joe Swezey at Super Car Workshop in Latrobe, at the other end of Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.

Brian says, “George called the shop and left a message that he had a car for us to do. He didn’t say it was a Yenko, so we were pretty excited to hear that when I called him back. It was in pieces, but everything was there.”

“During my hunt for a pair of N.O.S. front fenders, the guy told me about Super Car Workshop and the cars they had restored,” says George. “Thanks to the internet, I was able to see the cars that they’d restored and the awards they’d won. I gave them a call. A few days later the crew arrived to inspect what I had, and after our meeting I was convinced they should be the ones to bring my Yenko back to its former glory. I did a lot of the missing parts hunting, and over the course of the restoration we have become very good friends.”

It is very uncommon to have an original owner involved who remembers details, let alone directs the project with a realistic understanding of cost and a willingness to chase the small things that make a difference. For instance, he helped answer a mystery about the hood opening.

“George had all the original pieces for the car. The hard stuff was there,” recalls Brian. “So I said to him as we looked at it, ‘I know this is an original hood because the real ones all have this provision for a bolt on the underside, but I’m not sure what it was for.’

“George said, ‘When I bought the car, there was a panel in the trunk that had a decal on it that said For Winter Use. It was a block-off plate. I think Yenko may have had the hood supplier do those.’

“At any rate, that plate was gone, and nobody we know has an original one, but we were able to locate a photograph showing it and fabricated one for this car. George himself says it’s what the original one looked like. In fact, those same images showed a new Rallye Green Yenko Camaro that, based on the timeframe, is in all likelihood the same car that George and Carol Edwards bought in 1968.”

After its near half-century journey and two years of labor, the car was unveiled at MCACN in 2015 to great acclaim. The Edwards have shown it extensively in the past three years.

“With only a few visits to their shop and photos from Brian of the restoration progress to view, it was a real emotional experience seeing our car in a condition better than when we picked it up at Stauffer’s in 1968,” says George. “Words cannot describe our feelings. We were in tears seeing car for the first time. It sure brought back a lot of great memories for us both.”

Brian says, “You know what made this one so fun? Carol and George Edwards had such great stories about the car’s history. It made us feel like we were part of the family. That doesn’t happen very often. George would sometimes even drive over once in a while just to see how it was going; we enjoy his friendship. For Joe and I and the crew here, this was a fun car to do.”

At a Glance

1968 Yenko Super Camaro Owned by: Carol and George Edwards Restored by: Super Car Workshop, Latrobe, PA Engine: 427ci/425hp L72 V-8 Transmission: M21 4-speed manual Rearend: QD-code with 4.10 gears and Positraction Interior: Black bucket seat Wheels: 14×6 Pontiac design with Yenko Y center caps Tires: F70-14 Goodyear redlines Special parts: Yenko L72 conversion, COPO 9737 equipment

The Camaro’s restyling for 1968 resulted in a classic look, but it became notorious when Don Yenko added his touches, which included the 427 callouts on the front fenders and Yenko badging on the rear panel.

Under the hood, the Yenko shop added a 427-inch L72 short-block to override the GM 400ci displacement limit. The cars were delivered as standard SS396 L78 models equipped with the COPO 9737 Sports Car Conversion equipment. The top of the engine was swapped over to the bigger-displacement bottom end.

With the detail level seen here, the engine shines. The Holley carb was rated at 780 cfm, and special attention was paid to finishes on the bare metal items.

Brian Henderson and his Super Car Workshop crew rarely get to work with original owners, and George was able to answer their question of what went into the threaded opening on the rear of the scoop.

The hole was for a cold-weather block-off plate. SCW was able to locate a couple of images of the plate and then created this replica. An original example is not known to exist at this time.

Sometimes misidentified as 14x7s, these were standard 14×6 Pontiac Rally II sports wheels equipped with a special Yenko center cap and, as seen here, shod in redline tires. We wonder how Yenko got rid of all the steel wheels they took off.

The stock interior was all business in this car, without a center console and featuring some of the upgrades that Yenko added for driving use.

Don Yenko’s road-racing background caused him to select high-quality monitoring accessories like the Stewart-Warner gauges and tach. By 1968, the Hurst shifter was part of the standard big-block SS four-speed package.

During their honeymoon, bride Carol Edwards took this snapshot of George at Cecil County Dragway parked next to none other than Bill Jenkins. Both drivers are in their cars.

Later, George wanted to go faster, and this tunnel ram ended up on the car. Carol got to drive the kids around in the Camaro with the tall hood and a 5.13 final gear ratio. The couple is still married today.

1968 Yenko Camaros

The 1967 Yenko Camaros were pretty much assembly line cars. There wasn’t a COPO program in place yet for them, so the earliest ones were SS350s and the later ones started as SS396s. There’s some consistency in what was done to convert them, and Dick Harrell did some of the first ones for Yenko. The early ones are a little different from each other because of what each individual mechanic did, but these were still basically speed-business changes on production cars.

In 1968, when Yenko started with the COPO program, the Camaros become much more specific, like with the larger 1 1/16-inch sway bar on the front and the extra bracketry in the frame for that. We don’t see that bracketry or bar ever used again; it was a little smaller in 1969, and the bracketry is completely unique to 1968 Yenko COPOs. The standard Camaro used an 11/16-inch bar, and the 1969 double COPOs (9737 plus a 427 COPO code) received a 13/16-inch sway bar.

The 140-mph speedometer on the Yenko was that item’s first use, and then there was Yenko’s specialized hood, which was on all of the Super Camaros. Very few 1967 Yenkos had a special hood. The rear spoiler is also pretty unique and a real problem to replace if you do not have one, as is the fiberglass decklid that was offered as an option.

Then you have the QD rear, which I have only seen in the 1968 Yenko COPOs. In my opinion, the QD was the predecessor to the BE rear in 1969. The QD is not on some of the earliest 1968 Yenko conversions, which were built before the COPO was released. George Edwards’ car is a 9737 COPO package with the QD rear, and we’ve seen original paperwork and Protect-O-Plates that spell out the QD rear from the factory on COPO 9737 models. It would be almost impossible to find one if it’s missing. Only 70 of these cars were built, so we don’t know for sure and we just keep researching.

The other thing most unique about the 1968 program was the Magic Mirror trim tag on the firewall. You don’t see that on any other Camaro from Yenko. Most people will never remove their trim tag. I think the 1968 Yenkos are a little easier to identify, as that was the only year they received that Yenko tag in the doorjamb. Besides the Stinger Corvairs, the 1968s were the only ones to use that tag.

In the end, we want the cars to be as accurate as possible. We don’t work on them for the customer to simply cash out. We look at them as a caretaker might, believing that 50 or 100 years from now, somebody looking at what we did will know it was done right. We might be gone, but hopefully the cars will still be here and be cared for. —Brian Henderson

The Yenko resides in the Edwards family’s large basement display area, which showcases some of George’s other cars, including his rare coffin-nosed 1937 Cord, which he restored as well.

The 1968 Camaros were the only ones to receive this Yenko tag in the doorjamb.

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