1968 Chevrolet Yenko Super Camaro in Green & 427 Engine Sound

George and Carol Edwards spent part of their honeymoon drag racing this 1968 Yenko Super Camaro — and more than fifty-one years later, George still owns it. Lou Costabile caught up with the original owner and his numbers-matching 427 at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois. Watch to hear the engine run and find out how a Camaro became part of a marriage.

Some couples tell honeymoon stories about beaches or road trips. George and Carol Edwards tell theirs about a drag strip. More than fifty years into a marriage that started around the same time this Camaro rolled off a Yenko-modified assembly line, the two of them are still telling the story of how they spent part of their honeymoon racing this exact car — and George still owns it. What Lou Costabile found at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals wasn’t just a rare Yenko build in green paint. It was a car that’s been part of a marriage longer than most marriages last at all.

A Show Built Around Cars Like This One

The Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, held annually in Rosemont, Illinois, draws exactly the kind of documented, well-preserved muscle cars that make an event like this worth attending for enthusiasts and content creators alike. Lou Costabile’s ‘My Car Story’ channel has built its reputation by working shows like MCACN specifically to find cars with real ownership history attached — not just rare specs, but rare specs paired with a story nobody could make up.

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What Made a Yenko Camaro Different From a Stock Big-Block

A Yenko Camaro wasn’t a factory Chevrolet product in the strictest sense — Don Yenko’s Pennsylvania dealership took delivery of Camaros and installed a 427-cubic-inch big-block engine that Chevrolet didn’t officially offer in the Camaro at the time, creating a car that outperformed anything GM sold under the same nameplate. That dealer-installed modification is exactly what separates a Yenko Camaro from an ordinary big-block car, and it’s why Yenko builds carry a level of rarity and collector value that stock Camaros from the same year simply don’t match.

The 427 Under the Hood — and the Sound That Comes With It

This particular car wears its 427 in green paint, and the video makes a point of capturing the engine’s sound running — a detail that matters more than it might seem, because a correctly built, period-correct 427 has a distinct character that collectors and enthusiasts can often identify by ear alone. For a Yenko-specific build, engine sound becomes almost as important a verification detail as the paperwork, since it’s one more way to confirm the car is running the real thing rather than a modern reproduction.

George Edwards: The Original Owner, Still Behind the Wheel

George Edwards bought this Camaro new, which means his ownership history stretches back to the car’s original delivery rather than a later acquisition from a previous owner. That kind of single, original-owner history is increasingly rare for any muscle car from this era, let alone a Yenko-modified example, and it gives this particular Camaro a documented chain of custody that collectors specifically look for when evaluating a car’s authenticity and history.

Why Yenko Builds Are So Hard to Verify Today

Because Yenko conversions were performed by an independent dealership rather than documented on a factory build sheet the way a regular Camaro option would be, verifying an authentic Yenko today relies heavily on dealer paperwork, period photographs, and continuous ownership records rather than a single factory data plate. A car like George’s, with a traceable history back to its original purchase, sidesteps most of the verification headaches that plague Yenko cars with gaps in their ownership chain — which is exactly why a car like this draws so much attention at an event built around documented muscle cars.

A Honeymoon Spent at the Drag Strip

The detail that turns this from a well-documented Yenko into a genuinely memorable story is what George and his wife Carol did with the car early on: they went drag racing together during their honeymoon. That’s not a metaphor or an exaggeration for the cameras — it’s a literal account of how two newlyweds chose to spend part of their honeymoon, and it says something specific about the kind of relationship George and Carol built around a shared love of this car from the very beginning.

Fifty-One Years Together, and Counting

According to the show’s timeline, George and Carol have been married for close to fifty-one years, which means this Camaro has been part of their relationship for essentially its entire duration. Viewers have specifically remarked on how well the couple looks after that many decades together, with one comment noting they were both twenty years old in 1968 — doing the math, that puts them both around seventy and still, by all appearances, sharing the same enthusiasm for this car that brought them together on a drag strip decades ago.

What Fifty Years of Single Ownership Actually Preserves

Cars like this one also tend to carry a very specific kind of maintenance history that outside restorers rarely get to see — an original owner who kept a Yenko running and driveable for over five decades has almost certainly made mechanical decisions along the way that a car flipped between several owners never would, from which parts got preserved in original condition to which ones were quietly upgraded for reliability. That continuity is part of what documented, single-owner cars offer that even the most careful restoration of a multi-owner car can’t fully replicate.

Why ‘My Car Story’ Chases Stories Like This One

Lou Costabile’s approach on ‘My Car Story’ consistently favors this kind of narrative over a purely technical walkaround, using shows like MCACN to track down owners willing to talk not just about horsepower and options codes, but about what a specific car has meant to them personally. That format is part of why the channel has built a loyal following well beyond typical muscle car content — it treats cars as vehicles for human stories, not just mechanical specifications.

What This Camaro Represents to Yenko Collectors Today

For Yenko collectors, a car like this one represents close to the ideal combination: a documented, original-owner Yenko 427 with a complete history and an emotional story that adds real provenance beyond just numbers-matching verification. Cars with this level of documented, continuous ownership rarely come up for sale, and when they do, buyers are paying for more than the engine and the badge — they’re paying for a fifty-plus-year story that can never be recreated once it’s gone.

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