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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 07:24 PMOriginal message Most Beautiful and Legendary Stock Car ever built ...now For Sale on EBay I originally posted this in Motorsport Group, but thought I would post it in General Discussion in case some DUer has an extra million hanging around...also to see the reaction.Times ARE hard. People are homeless and starving, crude oil is boiling up unchecked from the Gulf, and this is a conspicuous extravagance.But for some of us who have been fans since the early 60s, this car IS history...rescued from another time. I can't help it.I look at this car and ache for it....and another time when THIS was State of the Art.I was 17 in 1967.Gotta Go. They are Starting Engines at Darlington....------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This car is LEGEND.Of course, I'm talking about Smokey Yunick's hybrid 66/67 Chevelle custom built for the 1968 Daytona 500. {snip for conservation of ethernet bandwidth, whatever}I was a fan in 1967, and remember the car and the controversy.For years, the prevailing gossip was that Smokey had carefully scaled down every body piece to create a 15/16 "reproduction" that would have had an unfair aerodynamic advantage.If I had an extra $MILLION laying around, I would spend it here.I wonder what it would take to get this "street legal"?You can BUY this car here:http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Smokey-Yunick-Chevelle-B... Or if you are a fan of Stock Car Racing, go to the site to see the excellent photos of how it was done in 1968.
shedevil69taz (199 posts) Sat May-08-10 07:34 PMResponse to Original message 4. NASCAR: go fast turn left dont wreck... Don't get me wrong I love the look of old cars. I just don't find any entertainment is watching them go around in circles.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 08:45 PMResponse to Reply #4 10. Some people don't get opera or baseball or show tunes. Most don't find the need to crow about it.Some, even, don't like crows.Or clowns.
taterguy (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 08:00 PMResponse to Original message 8. Beautiful and stock car do not belong in the same sentence But I guess everything is in the beholder. And if the beholder is someone who loves ****ing up the planet then I guess they might get their jollies from it. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 08:47 PMResponse to Reply #8 11. How is that car "****ing up the planet"? Must be easy to live in a black and white, binary world. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top taterguy (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 08:51 PM
Response to Reply #11 12. Well, there's this thing called auto exhaust and it chokes the planet Watch that Super Bowl from the 90s, when the Packers played the Patriots in the Superdome. ZZ Topp played the half time show with Harleys and Hot Rods. The players could barely breathe in the 2nd half. The same thing is happening to the planet, just on a less dramatic scale. Printer
I guess no one told him that Smokey had the original car crushed and displayed the cube outside his shop, along with others.
bvar22 (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 07:24 PMOriginal message Most Beautiful and Legendary Stock Car ever built ...now For Sale on EBay
but.......ah here http://www.travelermovie.com/pages/traveler.html Smokey was quite the self taught automotive engineer...legendary one too!
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sat May-08-10 08:45 PMResponse to Reply #410. Some people don't get opera or baseball or show tunes. Most don't find the need to crow about it.Some, even, don't like crows.Or clowns.
Stinky The Clown How is that car "******* up the planet"? Must be easy to live in a black and white, binary world.