Beautiful and Legendary Stock Car

[zeitgeist]

Might be a better topic for Father's day but then who the heck cares?  In true dump fashion even this OP must be viewed in the light of teh stooopid.



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bvar22  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 07:24 PM
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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.
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This car is LEGEND.
Of course, I'm talking about Smokey Yunick's hybrid 66/67 Chevelle custom built for the 1968 Daytona 500.


 
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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.

Then the fun begins.  Enjoy.  There are some good pic on the link I won't bother to bring but they might be worth the trip if you have the time.

shedevil69taz (199 posts)      Sat May-08-10 07:34 PM
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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.

Well looks like stinky is a fan folks.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 08:45 PM
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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.

and so it goes. 

taterguy  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 08:00 PM
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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. 
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 Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 08:47 PM
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11. How is that car "****ing up the planet"?
 Must be easy to live in a black and white, binary world.
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 taterguy  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 08:51 PM

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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. 
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I can hardly imagine what else ZZ might have done.   [/list]

[Alpha Mare]

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 

Yup, and the sold-out crowds die every year during the Monster Truck Rally! 

[dandi]

Love those Chevelles. Like 'em better for drag racing, though.

[Alpha Mare]

I guess no one told him that Smokey had the original car crushed and displayed the cube outside his shop, along with others.

[Peter3_1]

but.......ah here http://www.travelermovie.com/pages/traveler.html 

Smokey was quite the self taught automotive engineer...legendary one too!

[The Village Idiot]

I guess no one told him that Smokey had the original car crushed and displayed the cube outside his shop, along with others.

A legendary replica, I guess.

[Zathras]

bvar22  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 07:24 PM
Original message
Most Beautiful and Legendary Stock Car ever built ...now For Sale on EBay

So somebody put one of these on E-Bay?



I look at the name of the driver on the car the DUmmy posted and I say "Who's that?".

[crockspot]

I went to a monster truck show at the Olympic stadium in Montreal a couple of years ago. We were way up in the nosebleed seats, and I thought we were going to suffocate from all the exhaust fumes. But it was fun.

[Alpha Mare]

but.......ah here http://www.travelermovie.com/pages/traveler.html 

Smokey was quite the self taught automotive engineer...legendary one too!

My brothers used to rebuild and race at St. Louis Raceway in the 60's.  One was a '58 300D, with push-button tranny.

[jukin]

I liked stock car racing, NASCAR not so much.

[JohnnyReb]

Smokey was working on a new engine design when he died. I think it was called a "Hot Gas" engine. He once built a swatch plate engine for, I believe, Pontiac. He did so many things you can't keep'em all str8 in your mind.

Smokey was one of a kind.

[PatriotGame]

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat May-08-10 08:45 PM
Response 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.

...So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."

repeat, ect. then sniff...

[USA4ME]

Stinky The Clown
 
How is that car "******* up the planet"?

Must be easy to live in a black and white, binary world.

Hold on!  How long have you been on Skin's island, and you don't recognize there are members who are as stupid as you are but just on a different issue?!?

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[diesel driver]

but.......ah here http://www.travelermovie.com/pages/traveler.html 

Smokey was quite the self taught automotive engineer...legendary one too!

One of the stories I heard about Smokey was during a pre-race inspection, the NASCAR officials had tore into his car, including REMOVING the fuel cell, and told Smokey he had to fix 9 infractions on the car before he could race.

Smokey gets in the car, starts it (without a fuel cell), yells at the official, "You might want to make that 10", and drove the car back to the garage.

Seems Smokey had "incorporated" the roll cage into the fuel system, adding about 2-3 extra gallons of gas....   

[Peter3_1]

back when superbirds were considered obsolete junk, two sat in a field you drove past on the way to limerock ct. from ny. then, after a decade or so, ome day they were gone......maybe one , or both, became, suddenly, an old NASCAR racer......