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 power, ...

Henry Yunick started life 76 years ago as a po country boy, as rod patron George Poteet described his own humble Mississippi beginnings. Yunick remembered that in his early Pennsylvanian childhood, ...

I was a little late to the party for that new Smokey Yunick monument next to his old garage property in Daytona Beach. But I paid my respects this past week. It's the latest worthy project completed ...

The early days of NASCAR involved a paper-thin rulebook that gave engineers and crew chiefs quite a lot of wiggle room to misbehave. The most notorious of these was Henry “Smokey” Yunick, who is ...

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 ...

A "For Sale" sign at the front of the vacant property suggests Smokey's Garage will eventually slide deeper into the local history books. But the monument unveiled Thursday, in front of some 150 ...

If you’re at all interested in NASCAR folklore, you’ve no doubt heard of Smokey Yunick. He was a stock car racing crew chief, builder, owner, driver, engineer, engine builder, and car designer, but an ...