Smokey Yunick's old garage burned

docrod · 04-26-2011, 07:46 PM

Racing fans, yesterday Smokey Yunick's "Best damn Garage" burned to the ground. It has been closed since Smokey's passing in 2001. No one was hurt, but the building was a total loss. As many of you know Smokey was responsible for many racing inovations. The building was a reminder to some of the better days of NASCAR. Sorry to see history disappear...docrod

504steve · 04-26-2011, 07:49 PM

Wow... Was this intended/planned by his estate? If so, that's terrible, I'm kind of disappointed...

If not, and someone did it for kicks, I am absolutely disgusted.

Topspin · 04-26-2011, 08:00 PM

That makes me furious!! I admire him and Bill Jenkins so much. Between them they took high performance engine building to a whole different level.

BlastfromPast · 04-26-2011, 09:19 PM

Geez, that is sad. Between his exploits in NASCAR and his popular articles and columns in Popular Science Magazine in the 60's and 70's I got to feel like I knew him. Certainly a bit of automotive history lost.

Blast

RUN ROD RUN · 04-26-2011, 10:06 PM

As a young kid back in the 60's, I too remember reading those magazine articles.

Smokey Yunick name came up the other night on one of those SPEED Channel weekend program & the question addressed was why Smokey Yunick isn’t on the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The answer from one of the announcers was Smokey name doesn’t sell tickets. I thought that was

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Hopefully someday Smokey will be elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

docrod · 04-26-2011, 10:25 PM

Truth be known Smokey did not get along with the Frances. Really Smokey did not get along with a lot of people. I'd have a tendancy to say that the reason for him not being talked about for the HOF is that he really did not carre for the awards. He just wanted to work..........docrod