I'm not as good at telling a story as the guys at Motortrend.com are. But the story goes something like this:
"Besides ordering Smokey to pull the fuel cell out of the car, they also handed him a list of 10 infractions that had to be addressed before the Chevelle would be approved for competition. "Make it 11!" Smokey snapped before knocking down one of the inspectors. Then he took off in a haze of tire smoke, leaving the fuel cell on the ground behind him. [...] Smokey Yunicks black-and-gold beauty was the greatest race car never raced. Or, as Yunick himself described it, "the little car that could...but didn't." By whatever name, his one-of-a-kind 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle was the apotheosis of the cheater's art".
It's been a while that I stumbled across a car that I have absolutly nothing to moan about - it's beautifull, it's old and wouldn't touch a thing if it was mine. And it has a very interessting story to go with it, a legend. And this makes it so interessting to me.
It wasn't build for beauty, but for a purpose - and turned out beuatifull. Or maybe that is what makes a car truly beautifull - when it's given a purpose aside from being "fashionable", so to speak. Car like this make me feel good!
I hope you'r as overwhelmed by this car as i am!
"Besides ordering Smokey to pull the fuel cell out of the car, they also handed him a list of 10 infractions that had to be addressed before the Chevelle would be approved for competition. "Make it 11!" Smokey snapped before knocking down one of the inspectors. Then he took off in a haze of tire smoke, leaving the fuel cell on the ground behind him. [...] Smokey Yunicks black-and-gold beauty was the greatest race car never raced. Or, as Yunick himself described it, "the little car that could...but didn't." By whatever name, his one-of-a-kind 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle was the apotheosis of the cheater's art".
It's been a while that I stumbled across a car that I have absolutly nothing to moan about - it's beautifull, it's old and wouldn't touch a thing if it was mine. And it has a very interessting story to go with it, a legend. And this makes it so interessting to me.
It wasn't build for beauty, but for a purpose - and turned out beuatifull. Or maybe that is what makes a car truly beautifull - when it's given a purpose aside from being "fashionable", so to speak. Car like this make me feel good!
I hope you'r as overwhelmed by this car as i am!
