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This 1970 Chevrolet Nova Yenko Deuce carries a secret most muscle cars never had to keep — performance built specifically to fly under the insurance industry’s radar. Don Yenko engineered it as a quieter alternative to his more famous Camaros and Chevelles, right as rising premiums started pricing enthusiasts out of the cars they wanted most. Now a centerpiece of The Brothers Collection, this Deuce was chosen to headline a milestone 150th episode of Muscle Car of the Week. Watch to see what Yenko was really hiding under that modest Nova body.

Don Yenko took the humblest car on the Chevrolet lot and dropped in the same 350-cubic-inch engine found in the Z-28 Camaro and LT1 Corvette. Only 175 of these 1970 Nova Yenko Deuces were built, each finished off with a giveaway hood-mounted tachometer. Here’s how a bench-seat economy car became a genuine muscle car in disguise.

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