Democratic Underground - Most Beautiful and Legendary Stock Car ever built ...now For Sale on EBay

I originally posted this in Motorsport Group, but thought I would post it in General Discussion in case some DUer has an extra million hanging around...also to see the reaction.
Times ARE hard.
People are homeless and starving, crude oil is boiling up unchecked from the Gulf, and this is a conspicuous extravagance.

But for some of us who have been fans since the early 60s, this car IS history...rescued from another time.
I can't help it.
I look at this car and ache for it....and another time when THIS was State of the Art.
I was 17 in 1967.

Gotta Go.

They are Starting Engines at Darlington.
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This car is LEGEND.
Of course, I'm talking about Smokey Yunick's hybrid 66/67 Chevelle custom built for the 1968 Daytona 500.

"The story of this car starts back in 1963 when GM decided to terminate all factory support for racing. Most teams switched to Ford or Mopar products but not Smokey Yunick. In the mid-sixties Smokey built a series of 1966 Chevelles that have transcended the racing record to enter the lofty realm of legend. The first car blew off all the Fords and Mopars and won the pole for the ’67 Daytona 500 with Curtis Turner behind the wheel. It also sat on the pole for the next race at Atlanta but Turner crashed it in practice and the car was destroyed. The car was full of Smokey’s tricks, some that NASCAR knew about and some they didn’t.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Smokey-Yunick-Chevelle-BUILT-1968-DAYTONA-500-/170480890266?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Race_Cars_Not_Street_Legal_&hash=item27b173f19a

"For 1968 Smokey took all that he had learned from the ’67 Daytona car added even more. In the end, NASCAR didn’t agree with Smokey’s rule interpretations and never let the car run, not even in tire testing! He ended up selling the car to a racer in Georgia who tried to run it in a Sportsman race at Daytona in 1969 and NASCAR again refused to let it race. In 1988 Smokey realized he had never been paid for the car and tracked it down. He recovered it from a city dump where the car had been taken after the shop it was stored in had burned down. Once back in the “Best Damn Garage in Town” it was carefully restored back to the condition it was in when presented to tech inspection at Daytona in 1968."

I was a fan in 1967, and remember the car and the controversy.
For years, the prevailing gossip was that Smokey had carefully scaled down every body piece to create a 15/16 "reproduction" that would have had an unfair aerodynamic advantage.

If I had an extra $MILLION laying around, I would spend it here.
I wonder what it would take to get this "street legal"?

You can BUY this car here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Smokey-Yunick-Chevelle-BUILT-1968-DAYTONA-500-/170480890266?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Race_Cars_Not_Street_Legal_&hash=item27b173f19a

Or if you are a fan of Stock Car Racing, go to the site to see the excellent photos of how it was done in 1968.

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