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Automobiles => General Automotive => Topic started by: porridgehead on July 15, 2009, 09:56:43 PM

Title: Good Cheating Stories.
Post by: porridgehead on July 15, 2009, 09:56:43 PM

I'm a big fan of the H.A.M.B. (Hokey-Ass Message-Board, aka Jalopy Journal). It's a wonderful place full of characters who live the hot-rodder life and many who helped create the hot-rod life. Lot of history there, lot of info, lot of just plain cool stuff.

I stumbled across the Cheating Story thread and felt that folks here would appreciate it. It's American-centric, mainly focused upon Nascar, dirt-track and drag racing, but anybody who has turned a wheel in competition would probably appreciate it. After all, who here hasn't thought of putting mercury in the frame of their car so that it would pass tech but give a favorable turn-in on the oval?

Crafty bunch, those racers.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162615

And here's a pic of Smokey Yunick with his 7/8 scale Chevelle, just because.

(http://image.superchevy.com/f/11195505+w750+st0/sucp_0109_01_z+smokey_yunicks_1966_chevelle+henry_yunick.jpg)

Title: Re: Good Cheating Stories.
Post by: Bezor on July 16, 2009, 04:24:21 PM

Yunick has a book, which I yet to read which compiles his exploits.

Famous that 7/8th car is.

I sent this thread to my neighbor who has tons of local NASCAR stories from back when he raced. 

Title: Re: Good Cheating Stories.
Post by: porridgehead on July 16, 2009, 05:45:20 PM

A lot of the stories seem apocryphal, especially when it comes to Yunick. He denies the gas tank story where he was informed by tech that he couldn't race because he had ten major infractions in the car. He looked at them and said "Make it 11." and pulled out of the tech station and drove his car back to the shop. The gas tank for the car had just been tested for volume and was sitting, quite empty, in the back seat.

If it was me, I wouldn't deny that kind of thing. I'd roll in it like a dog on the dead.