smokey_yunick_1967_chevy_chevelle

[wayne petty]

some of you might really enjoy this..


http://www.circletrack.com/chassistech/ctrp_1010_smokey_yunick_1967_chevy_chevelle/index.html


seems there are more smokey articles in the right sidebar..


enjoy....

[unklian]

That story is in the latest issue.

[phat rat]

I saw that car in a museum in Sevierville Tn

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I've read a bit on that Chevelle and the Camaro 1968 (?)  Smokey built.. Seems the cars are loaded with special little tricks.

[tom36]

If only half  the stuff  about Smokey is true, He would still be one helluva an engineer and innovator.  Tom...

[slocrow]

Wasn't there a deal about him angrily driving a race car home with the gas tank still in tech?  Talk about big hidden fuel lines.

[jaybee]

Yup, story says tech told him his car had 10 major violations and he wouldn't be allowed to race until they were all fixed.  "Ten" said Smokey as he climbed in, fired it up and drove off without a fuel tank.

In 1966 Smokey wasn't allowed to race because NASCAR claimed his car was actually a 7/8 scale model of a Chevelle.  For a guy who was caught cheating repeatedly he remained angry about this for a long time.  He insisted that the cars speed came from being carefully streamlined underneath in a way that stock cars just weren't at that time.  

Ironically that was the same year that the infamous Yellow Banana passed tech.  Modeled here http://www.fredlorenzen.com/banana.htm the car was clearly not a stock body and the big Ford contributed mightily to NASCAR's reputation for uneven application of rules.

[papastoyss]

I saw the Chevelle in Mark Martin's former museum in Datonnya (sp)  . Ray Charles coulda told that car wasn't a stock body!

[unklian]

His books are definitely good reading.

[41woodie]

Smokey is responsible for one of my all-time favorite quotes about racing: "It ain't what the rules say you can't do, it's about what the rules don't say you can't do" or something to that effect.