One of the coolest and most legendary stock cars to never run a race is for sale on eBay for the low, low price of $950,000. It is Smokey Yunick’s Chevelle that was entered at the 1968 Daytona 500, denied entrance and never saw a race track again. It’s packed with subtle enhancements and sly features that caused tech inspectors to throw the red flag in the pits. This is the car that people claim to be 15/16ths scale, which it is not.
So what were some of the things that made the tech inspectors see red? A front bumper cut and made taller by a couple inches to form an air dam, flushed out glass, a vortex interrupter formed by altering the rear of the roof, a custom frame, dropped floors to form a belly pan, and a host of other stuff that wasn’t specifically banned in the rule book, but was after they saw this car.
All those alterations eventually became standard equipment on any big level stock car, but like most things, Yunick was years ahead of the curve. It would be more than cool to get this thing in a wind tunnel and see how it actually does and see how the modifications made the car a better or worse performer.
If you swing a wrench, you should hold Yunick in high esteem. We say he was one of the best to ever ply the trade. Tech inspectors, pray that no one with his handle on rule book manipulation shows up at your track!
A big thanks to BangShift.com reader and forum member Spidergearsman for the tip!
Source — eBay Motors — Smokey Yunick’s legendary Chevelle!
