It's 1965. Don Yenko, part-owner of a Pennsylvania Chevrolet dealership, has a problem. People want to buy race cars from him, represent the Chevrolet brand, but the Corvette's too big to be classified as a sports car. So he looks at the catalog. The second generation Corvair is promising - they've fixed the swing-axle suspension that got Ralph Nader all upset, now it's a lightweight rear engine economy car. All it needs is a Mr. Yenko to bolt on some engine parts, add lightness with fibreglass, and put on some new stickers.
Thus the Chevrolet Corvair becomes a Yenko Stinger, Stage II. More power. Wider tires. Stiffer springs. Air dam and modest spoiler to remind air to go over the car instead of under it.
To get an SCCA homologation, he builds 100 of them as 1966 models. All ordered in white bodies, painted with blue stripes, to meet the requirements of the ruling bodies who say that the national racing colours of America are white. With blue stripes. The following year the options expand, bowing to pressure from advertisers who want to paint their branding on everything the public sees; they're ordered in red, white, and blue, and some end up in other bright colours as well.
Best Lap Times
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