Henry “Smokey” Yunick ... the Army Air Corps during World War II, Yunick settled in Daytona Beach and started building race cars, working with Hudson Hornets, Fords and Chevrolets.

Herb Thomas was my driver, a Hudson Hornet was our car ... That was sort of the unofficial signal for all the Curtis and Smokey fans in the inspection station to begin pulling boards out of ...

The official dedication of a Smokey Yunick historical marker ... fame came as car builder and crew chief for the famed Hudson Hornet’s NASCAR domination in the early-’50s.

Calling the Hudson Hornet of the early 1950s “racy” would ... National titles while driving Hudsons. Noted mechanic Smokey Yunick was also associated with Hudson in those early days.

But to my shame, while I already vaguely knew that the real Hudson Hornet had been a big deal ... such as crew chief Smokey Yunick, I’d never gotten around to learning about the drivers of ...

The way old “Smokey” Yunick saw it, breaking the rules was an overly simplistic cut-and-dried way of looking at life. Rather, he thought rules were all about interpretation. Few people ...

Editor's note: This week marks the 15th anniversary of the death of the legendary mechanic and crew chief Smokey Yunick, one of the most brilliant and controversial minds in NASCAR history.