For the Yenko COPO Camaro Owners

[PeteRR]

[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

[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]

Radioactive or not..........

[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/Canonsb..._in_America.22

On a 19-acre plot of land the Standard Chemical Company operated a Radium refining mill from 1911 to 1922. From 1930 to 1942, the company purified Uranium ore. Marie Curie was invited to the United States in 1921 and was given an honorary degree by the University of Pittsburgh and 1 gram of radium.
From 1942 to 1957, Vitro Manufacturing Company 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. Waste from incomplete extraction and other 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 between 1956 and 1957. After the closure of Vitro, the site was used by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The site was then used by a pottery plant for land and clay. Canonsburg pottery can be detected by gieger counter .
The Canonsburg mill site was designated in the 1978 Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act 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.

[Dayton]

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

[WhiteG240]

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