See All 13 Photos With his signature oil-stained Stetson and cigar (later, a meerschaum pipe), Smokey Yunick was a larger-than-life character and a uniquely American success story. He was born ...

It was Smokey Yunick, of course. "I'd look up, and Smokey would be watching me. But he would never come over and talk. It was nerve-racking. Like a musician playing a beautiful composition ...

In early May the racing world lost one of its legendary characters and great minds when Henry "Smokey" Yunick died at age 77 at his home in Daytona Beach, Florida. Known for his trademark corncob ...

That ol bike smoked so muchset up as loose as possible because Yunick had an intrinsic feel for clearances and internal dynamicsthat it caused a track-side announcer to call him Smokey.

That’s apparently not true of the late Smokey Yunick, among racing’s most popular characters. Since its 2010 inception, the Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina, has considered 60 ...

Getty ImagesA cowboy hat and cars that ran fast were Smokey Yunick trademarks in auto racing. The "Best Damn Garage in Town" -- or maybe anywhere, ever -- burned down Monday night. In it ...

Henry “Smokey” Yunick, an innovative stock car mechanic and owner who helped develop Chevrolet’s original small-block engine in 1955, died Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla., of complications ...

The most notorious of these was Henry “Smokey” Yunick, who is credited for most of the thickening of that rulebook since then. He was a stock car racing crew chief, builder, driver ...

Smokey Yunick always thought big. With access to Chevy's brand new 1967 Camaro, and liking its wind-cheating body, power-to-weight ratio, and the availability of both small-block and big-block ...

You could call it “The Best Damn Monument in Town.” The official dedication of a Smokey Yunick historical marker, fittingly, is scheduled for Thursday, the day many haulers filled with racing ...

One of the founding fathers of stock-car racing, Smokey Yunick was a pioneer in the area of rules interpretation which sometimes labeled him an outlaw genius. Fox News Media Fox Business ...