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.












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.

Earlier this week, a Bugatti originally built in 1936 sold for more than $30 million to an anonymous buyer, Autbolog reported.

USA Today calls it "the most expensive used car ever," while the Wall Street Journal called it the "most valuable car ever known to have changed hands."

The auction was handled by Gooding & Company, a Santa Monica, California-based auction firm. In a statement, David Gooding, the company's president and founder, called the vehicle "one of the world's most significant and valuable automobiles."

The 57SC Atlantic was based on the Aerolithe Electron Coupe, a show car built for the 1935 Paris Auto Salon. The car's low-slung, pontoon-fender design was the work of Jean Bugatti, son of founder Ettore Bugatti. The show car was fashioned out of magnesium panels that were difficult to weld, and so Bugatti employed the car's distinctive riveted seams. And while the three production Atlantics were built of weld-able aluminum, the seams were retained as a design cue.

Even has a crack down the center!!!

Don't get me wrong I love the look of old cars. I just don't find any entertainment is watching them go around in circles.

technology. I mean the corporate V-8 engines for Toyota, Chrysler and Ford are overhead cam engines. What does NASCAR do? They force Toyota, Chrysler and Ford to design and use overhead valve engines. Seems absurd to me considering they are called "stock cars".

All those completely Carolina blue Plymouth Satellites with 426 HEMI's, that raced from 1964 to 1968, were just exquisite looking machines. 2nd place for me would be the Mark Donohue Trans-Am Javelin, third place would be the 2nd generation Mark Donohue NASCAR Matador, those vertical Red, White and Blue tritone colors on those sleek Dick Teague designed American Motors fastbacks. Penske probably could have won a few races, rocking antique Studebakers, Penske racing was beggining to prove itself, Roger could beat you with your car or his. 4th place would be that rogue 1965 Trans_am racing Canadian serial number Pontiac LeMans witha Chevy small block, 5th place would be Bill Elliot's original "bubble bird", the last NASCAR that vaguely looked like one you buy at a dealer.

In the sixties NASCAR was really cool and It seems to me that when NASCAR got away from that stock sheetmetal, it went downhill. That's one of the reasons this Yunick car was special, because it was built at 90% scale and so was breaking the rules about the sheetmetal being stock. This was a harbinger of bad things to come.

Most don't find the need to crow about it.

Some, even, don't like crows.

Or clowns.

;)

My dad had one in his garage. He sold it for scrap in '84.

But I guess everything is in the beholder.

And if the beholder is someone who loves fucking up the planet then I guess they might get their jollies from it.

Must be easy to live in a black and white, binary world.

Watch that Super Bowl from the 90s, when the Packers played the Patriots in the Superdome.

ZZ Topp played the half time show with Harleys and Hot Rods.

The players could barely breathe in the 2nd half.

The same thing is happening to the planet, just on a less dramatic scale.

I guarantee that car will put less pollution into the atmosphere over the next year than the average Prius will. Cars like that one don't get driven, they get parked and polished.

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:rofl:

For the OP.....Sweet ride. :)

BTW, I'm a cyclist, and I've never understood the need to jump in and shit all over threads just because cars are mentioned. I probably haven't driven 50 miles in the past 2-3 weeks, but Cars Are Evil Crusaders annoy me.

Though the sentiment remains, for lots of reasons- the antipathy toward cyclists (or mass transit) being near the top of the list.

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And probably did more to reduce his carbon foot print today than you did.
I know for a fact that the OP planted 2 trees, 4 watermelons, 4 pumpkins, and a bunch of sunflowers,
did not drive a car,
ate two meals containing no pre-packaged food like substances, a good percentage of which were grown or raised on his place,
produced very little waste (fed to the chickens, composted, or recycled),
dried clothes on a Solar Powered clothesline,

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And STILL enjoyed watching the race at Darlington (The Lady in Black),
and STILL finds beauty in the photo posted in the OP.

With all its complexities, contradictions, and paradoxes, Life is wonderful.

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...BTW, if there are any benefactors out there who would like to help Mr and Mrs Robeson retire to Southern France, please PM me.

Not in such good shape, but it would look very close to that one if I ever got the money to restore it.

Thanks for posting! :hi:

On edit: I also sport several scars around my eye from a hit to the rear quarter panel. My sister and I were standing up in the back seat (it was 1973) when we were T-boned. I was the only one seriously injured, and I only needed stitches around my eye. That thing was back on the road the next week!

He once got around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank, by using eleven foot coils of 2-inch diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 gallons to the car's fuel capacity. He used a basketball in the fuel tank which could be inflated when the car's fuel capacity was checked and deflated for the race. I'm surprised that Nascar hasn't purchased the car for the Hall of Fame.