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Of all the cars built by Smokey Yunick, his '67 Chevelle, driven by Curtis Turner, attracted the most controversy. The following excerpts, written by Eric Dahlquist in the May and June '67 issues ...
Engineer extraordinare, tuner, and car builder Smokey Yunick quickly became ... that with his infamous Chevelle. The car came from nowhere to take the pole for the '67 Daytona 500 with none ...
I'm talking about, obviously, Smokey Yunick's legendary Chevelle ... he and a group of friends transformed a skeleton of a '67 Chevelle into a first class Street Stock that pays tribute to ...
First, please let me say that the picture shown in this article is NOT the first of the two 1967 Chevelle's built by the Legendary Smokey Yunick. It is the second car and it's story will be told ...
But the most infamous stock car ever built? That's a no-brainer. The ingeniously modified Smokey Yunick Chevelle is the source of more lore than any inanimate object this side of "The Mona Lisa." ...
Henry "Smokey" Yunick was born in Tennessee in 1923 ... Smokey shows up with a '67 Chevrolet Chevelle with Curtis Turner driving. It was two renegades coming into Daytona, neither could care ...
I was a little late to the party for that new Smokey Yunick monument next to his old ... In February of 1967, Smokey put Curtis Turner in a Chevelle that wouldn’t pass the first sniff-test ...
"Smokey shows up with a '67 Chevrolet ... But the mystery of that ’67 Chevelle only added to Yunick’s legend.
was working at Daytona International Speedway in February 1968 when Smokey Yunick, the wily mechanic, showed up with a radically modified Chevrolet Chevelle. He recalls how Yunick managed to drive ...
The most notorious of these was Henry “Smokey ... that his Chevy Chevelle was 7:8 scale. However, rather than simply fitting a smaller body over the same chassis, Yunick sculpted the exterior ...
Chevy’s Chevelle has become one of the most instantly ... In fact you might even remember this car as the weapon of choice of Smokey Yunick who raced in the 1960s and clearly made quite the ...
Master race car builder and engineer Henry "Smokey" Yunick died Wednesday ... Mario Andretti and Bobby Allison. A famous Yunick race car was the 7/8th-scale Chevelle. It so riled the NASCAR ...