Decode That Tag

I was recently asked how to decode a Yenko Camaro vin tag, and the honest truth is that it’s no different from any other Camaro vin tag, Yenko Chevrolet modifies the Camaros at their dealership, so you see, a Yenko Super Camaro would have a regular Camaro vin code such as 124379N345145, so by the vin you would know that the car was a Chevrolet indicated by the number “1” and that it was a Camaro indicated by the number “2” and that it was a two door coupe indicated by the number “37” and that it’s a 1969 Model indicated by the “9” and that it was built in Norwood California indicated by the “N” and anything after the “N” is the line number or serial number id you prefer this would tell you that this particular car was the 345,145 TH car built in 1969.

All Camaro vin numbers are pretty standard like this in an effort to make them easy to decode, now to find out if it’s a Yenko Camaro that your looking at you could look at the RPO code located on the passenger side of the engine on a machined pad just in front of the head, now just as a warning these numbers have been known to be re-stamped to say that their something that their not, so this is where you need to be careful and match this number to the block casting number located at the back of the engine on the driver side, and the bell housing flange, and this number cannot be re-stamped, so of the RPO code does not match this number, I would not buy the car.

I have spent a lot of time studying how the vin codes, and the RPO codes, and casting numbers all work together to tell you what the car is, and what it should be, and if you look at these codes, and make sure that is your looking for a factory Camaro, or a special Camaro like a Yenko Camaro, that you pay close absolute attention to what these numbers are telling you, you probably will not get ripped off on your purchase, don’t second guess these numbers as you match them up, if they tell you that it’s not a real Yenko, then it’s not.

The Yenko Camaros had a factory horsepower rating of 425 HP, and if those numbers don’t tell you that it’s a 425 HP 427 CID engine, then it’s best that you steer in the opposite direction of this purchase, make sure that these numbers tell you that it had the right transmission in it, the Yenko Camaros were all sold with a standard transmission, and it was a Muncie M-22 rock crusher, if the numbers on the car don’t tell you that this is what’s in the car, don’t buy it.

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