Though Smokey set several speed and endurance records with the car at Bonneville, with both a 302 cubic inch and a 396 cubic inch engine, it never won a race while Yunick owned it. It was later sold to Don Yenko, who did win several races.
A stock appearing Camaro, Smokey had acid-dipped the body panels and installed thinner glass to reduce weight, tilted the front end down and the windshield back for aerodynamics, widened the fenders, z'ed the front frame, and sucked the floorpan up to lower the car. The driprails were even brought closer to the body for a tiny aerodynamic improvement. Don't forget that the most common thing Smokey did to all his cars, was to streamline them for reduces air drag, all the underside was modified to reduce angles and flow air around flat spots. All of the aerodynamic things Smokey did are readily attributed to his experiences as a B-17 pilot, and the knowledge gained from airplane design and dynamics.
For a couple other photos of this twin boom, 1951 Bissiluro, world record speed holder at one time of the 2000cc class : http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2009/09/twin-boom.html
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2011-goodwood-festival-of-speed-other-stuff/289984/
Though Smokey set several speed and endurance records with the car at Bonneville, with both a 302 cubic inch and a 396 cubic inch engine, it never won a race while Yunick owned it. It was later sold to Don Yenko, who did win several races.
A Citreon 2 CV speedster... that's new! I've never seen anyone even draw one before
Above is one I hadn't posted before from Chris at http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/ notice it's a cold day coat
I think the above is Bonneville by looking at the mountain in the background, unless it's the view to the north of El Mirage
above photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5
Driven from the pits of the track on NAS Miramar, and over to Orange and Isabella near the Hotel Del Coronado... in the usual location of the Coronado car show that happens each spring in March or April
Keep fresh spark plugs handy... great idea!
