Designed to be more aerodynamic and give Chevrolet an edge at Daytona, these cars were the symbol of a time when NASCAR teams were building on the previous work done by Smokey Yunick and really ...

Another icon of the stock car cheating game is ol' Smokey Yunick ... a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle, was so stunningly quick that NASCAR officials knew something was up. Because Yunick has become ...

turns out to be among the tame entries by the time you finish. By the way, Smokey’s outlier was 1960 Indy 500 winner Jim Rathmann, who hired Smokey to provide his horsepower and run the race-day ...

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 ...

Chevrolet’s answer to the entry-level question was the 1964–67 Chevelle, a car that built on the lessons learned from the smaller Chevy II and ahead-of-its-time Corvair. Larger than both, but more ...

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 ...

This build was inspired by an old 60s NASCAR driven by Smokey Yunick. The paint job was also the work of his hands. If you are going to build a NASCAR-inspired Chevelle, it'd better pack some heat.

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 ...

If you’re at all interested in NASCAR folklore, you’ve no doubt heard of Smokey Yunick. He was a stock car racing crew chief, builder, owner, driver, engineer, engine builder, and car designer ...

General Motors renewed its trademark on the Chevelle nameplate in 2013, suggesting a reboot of the classic Chevrolet muscle car was under consideration. Since then, it's resurrected several ...