| Author | Yunick, Henry.
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| Title | Best damn garage in town : my life & adventures / by Henry "Smokey" Yunick.
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| Edition | First edition. |
| Published | Daytona Beach, Fla. : Carbon Press, c2004.
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| Description | xvi, 652 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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| ISBN | 0972437835 |
| ISBN | 9780972437837 |
| Formatted Note | Contents: Where do racers come from -- Tail End Charlie goes to Europe -- The watch, the ring and the jacket -- The mule ain't blind -- Albert the alleygator -- One step ahead of Castro -- Carnie -- Lord Calvert takes her through the turns -- The fabulous Hudson Hornet -- The cover of the Saturday Evening Post -- About tars -- Society of Heads-up-asses Surface Transportation Manufacturers -- The hole gets bigger everyday -- If the world had more Deweys -- The system: don't get mad, get even -- Racing with one arm -- Dear Bill -- Mexican road race -- It didn't say you couldn't -- Pontiac, how the sweater got knit -- Wore out and dead at 50 -- The little car that could, but didn't -- 50 good drivers and an asshole -- Family -- Real racer's proving ground -- The fan -- Indy qualifying -- Indy Pace Car -- The beaver patrol -- What did you invent Smokey? -- Flow bench -- A greased chute to shitsville -- The Smokey BTU juggling contest -- Slippin' outta sync -- Ocelot -- Smokey Yunick, PhD -- Funny lookin grasshoppers -- Champion hound dog tamer -- Eleven rose bushes -- Since I quit racing -- Dale Earnhardt -- The Smoketron -- Power secrets -- Across the pond -- Back in the game -- The final final chapter -- The dictionary according to Smokey.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Smokey Yunick, the world's most famous mechanic, accomplished more in one life than most people could in five. He flew 50 missions as a B-17 pilot during WWII. He was an integral part of the birth of stock car racing and ran open wheel cars during the glory days of the Indy 500. He spent years in the jungles of Ecuador and held 10 patents. Smokey was concerned for the future so he developed more efficient and powerful engines for passenger cars and safer crash barriers for race tracks. These are the real stories of racing and everything automotive in America - told by someone who was there every step of the way!
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| Subjects | Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Indianapolis Speedway Race.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
NASCAR (Association)
Stock car drivers -- United States -- Biography.
Stock car racing -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Yunick, Henry.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: GV 1032 Y956 A3 2004
CA-1904241: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 92439] |
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