The Yenko-badged Nova 427 sits at the sharp edge of Chevrolet muscle history, a compact coupe that quietly carried one of the wildest big blocks of its era. Built in tiny numbers and traded today at ...

There’s rare, and then there’s Yenko rare. For 1969, just 38 Novas were transformed under Chevrolet dealer Don Yenko’s watchful eye, each one a hand-built weapon designed to do one thing: humiliate ...

In 1929, a fellow named Frank Yenko opened a Durant dealership. When the Durant company went bankrupt in 1934, Yenko opened a Chevrolet dealership. About three decades later, Frank's son, Don Yenko, ...

In 1969, a Chevy dealer from Pennsylvania looked at one of the fastest compact cars in America and decided it still wasn't fast enough. What he built next was so extreme that insurance companies ...

Mecum's Kissimmee 2026 saw over 20 Chevrolet Novas hit the auction block. Most of these cars were obviously mundane, but the auction also included a 1969 Yenko Nova. One of very few examples known to ...

Muscle car and SCCA legend Don Yenko built incredible performance cars from Chevy stock, out of the Yenko family’s Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Chevy dealership. However, Yenko didn’t start with Camaros; ...