For the Yenko COPO Camaro Owners

[PeteRR]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2006/11/202137361-1.jpg

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

radioactivecamaros.. haahha

[colt zantop]

wow......sweet pic! if I could just have one.............. :)

[rocketman]

Awesome picture.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Assuming all of those cars survived until this day, I wonder just how much money is sitting in that lot?

[Bill Howell]

Assuming all of those cars survived until this day, I wonder just how much money is sitting in that lot?

A bunch!

[andrewb70]

I wonder how many of them still glow in the dark?

Andrew

[muthstryker]

omg thats it! larry can have radioactive suits made with the PT logo on the back :headbang:

[SHANE 73Z]

I know exactly where that field is! I live about 5 miles from where its located.

Yenko is a Honda dealership now. There are still quite a few local cars still around purchased from Yenkos original dealership.

Shane

[69rs]

:eek: Radioactive or not..........:yum:

[Joey_H]

I'm wondering where did the radioactive waste come from?

[68sixspeed]

finally a sure fire way to tell the fakes-- no radiation!

[PeteRR]

I'm wondering where did the radioactive waste come from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonsburg,_Pennsylvania#.22The_most_radioactive_t own_in_America.22


On a 19-acre plot of land the Standard Chemical Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Standard_Chemical_Company&action=edit) operated a Radium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium) refining mill from 1911 to 1922. From 1930 to 1942, the company purified Uranium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium) ore. Marie Curie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie) was invited to the United States in 1921 and was given an honorary degree by the University of Pittsburgh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh) and 1 gram of radium.
From 1942 to 1957, Vitro Manufacturing Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vitro_Manufacturing_Company&action=edit) refined Uranium and other rare metals from various ores and onsite residues, government-owned uranium ore, process concentrates, and scrap materials. The government bought the Uranium ore from Vitro and used it in the Manhattan Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project). Waste from incomplete extraction and other metallurgical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical) processes accumulated during the sites long history. Originally, the waste was left uncovered. It contaminated the group, and caused cancer for most residents on a street down-wind of it. About 11,600 tons of mill tailings were moved to railroad property near Blairsville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blairsville%2C_Pennsylvania) between 1956 and 1957. After the closure of Vitro, the site was used by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission). The site was then used by a pottery plant for land and clay. Canonsburg pottery can be detected by gieger counter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gieger_counter) .
The Canonsburg mill site was designated in the 1978 Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium_Mill_Tailings_Radiation_Co ntrol_Act&action=edit) as eligible for federal funds for clean up. It was the only uranium mill east of the Mississippi River to receive funds. Under a $48 million cleanup, the mill site and 163 vicinity properties in Canonsburg were remediated. Residual radioactivity was consolidated into a covered, clay-lined cell at the Canonsburg mill site that is fenced and posted.

[Joey_H]

Thanks dude! That certainly 'splains the radioactivity. :worship:

[Dayton]

Here is another pic of the Yenko lot. I see some Chevelles.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[WhiteG240]

They made a Yenko box truck??!?! lol
Both are really cool pictures!