Don Yenko grew up in his family’s Chevrolet dealership. In 1957, he set up a performance shop at the dealership for adding a bit more punch to Chevy cars. The shop sold performance parts to customers, ...

Jay Leno takes the Yenko Deuce Nova for a spin. It's got V8 firepower, a manual transmission, and a face that once scared Corvettes at the drag strip. Fifty-five years after it saw the light of day, ...

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Based on popular factory-built Chevys, these five mean machines became muscle car legends thanks to the performance makeover they got at the hands of Don Yenko and his crew. Founded in 1949 in ...