In an interview I saw myself with Benny Parsons ( if I remember correctly ), Smokey flat out stated "the 7/8's scale" Chevelle was a complete MYTH. He said the car was indeed original, factory size, but he DID do some modifications to it. Such as a raised lip or ridge around the back glass, and other little things. The biggest "trick" to the body of that car that made it faster than the rest of the field to win the pole position, was how UNDERNEATH of the car had fabrication work......flat panels that were slick and aerodynamic. Smokey said the underneath of that car was "slick as the under side of a turtle"......and IT WORKED. Unfortunately, the driver wrecked the car terribly during that race, flipping it multiple times.
The thing about the 7/8 chevelle, is it wasn't intended. Smokey used the main blueprints, which have minimum and maximum tolerances for every part of the body. he built the entire car to the absolute minimums, no maximums. This predated the body templates, so all you had were the blueprints
I strongly recommend viewers read Smokey's autobiography. There is something there for any reader. Smokey was very concerned about climate change and was a complex man.
I heard a story once that when Smokey was running Husons he reversed rotation of the engine to help handling. After the race they were coming around to tech the engine. He tore the engine down put everything in a tub of gas and set it on fire so they couldn't inspect the engine.
May be the same Hudson, but he had an illegal head on the car and it won. When he tore it down he tossed the head in a cutoff barrel of dirty gas. Said he would pull it out when it cooled off. Then he pulled legal head out of dirty gas that was in there all along
There was no 7/8 scale Chevelle, Smokey Yunick has confirmed that multiple times and the car has been measured and found to full size. That car unless it has been sold is at Richard Childress Racing on display. Smokey challenged anyone to go there and measure it themselves.
I might have a cxouple of suggestions that will improve your setup. My brother and his friend made a headgasket with four sets of platinum points equally mounted around the cylinder. It was layered in between the gasket material like a circuit board. So instead of firing from the spark plug it fired from each set of points. The platinum points had no place to hold any carbon build up so would not foul out like a spark plug. and firing the gas mixture with four sets of spark burned the fuel vapor quicker and more completely.(old airplanes had two sparkplugs per cylinder) Giving an increase of power with less fuel consumtion and less emissions. My idea to add to this is to reduce fuel droplet size thus increasing surface area of the fuel by using an ultrasonic mister which instantly vaporizes a drop of liquid to a finer mist than a carburator is capable of. This should also increase power while decreasing consumption andEmmisions. The reason you do not see this gasket method of spark on the market now is a sparkplug company bought their patent. Their was a drawback to the design they had not worked out at the time and that was that the gasket was thicker and you had to torque it down just right or it would blow the gasket. But this was 40 years ago and we have much better materials to work with now. I really hope you read this or anyone else . It could be an easy add on for cars well worth the cost for the increased economy and decrease of emmisions. Hopefully give a little more time for the transition to the totally electric cars that are coming. Jake The Snake Was interested in the gasket for his race cars as it would have been a huge advantage. So if you need an investor you might want to try him. It also goes to show how money trumps humanityand that big corporations (Firestone) are more concerned with the bottom line than reducing polution to save mankind. We really need to institute a crimes against humanity law for people like that and Big Pharma who suppress or overprice discoveries that benefit life.. Please send a comment should you read this. I like to think I am at least trying yo help.
The reason "0ld" airplane engines had 2 spark plugs per cylinder and 2 magnetos was to have 2 complete independent systems for safety redundancy if one quit the engine would still run you can't pull over to the nearest cloud your coming down not good
Where is the small block mystery motor? That’s the very most important part especially with smoky !!! Yeah it blew a rod so what where is that motor? Even if it’s out in the field take it apart and measure it check it out get the info on the damn thing even if there’s no way to ever rebuild it! Where is that motor!
The world is alot less colorful without Smokey and guys like him.
Ray is a legend in his own mind.
In an interview I saw myself with Benny Parsons ( if I remember correctly ), Smokey flat out stated "the 7/8's scale" Chevelle was a complete MYTH. He said the car was indeed original, factory size, but he DID do some modifications to it. Such as a raised lip or ridge around the back glass, and other little things. The biggest "trick" to the body of that car that made it faster than the rest of the field to win the pole position, was how UNDERNEATH of the car had fabrication work......flat panels that were slick and aerodynamic. Smokey said the underneath of that car was "slick as the under side of a turtle"......and IT WORKED. Unfortunately, the driver wrecked the car terribly during that race, flipping it multiple times.
Love what you're doing Ray. Maybe it will be finished by the time Smokey's in the hall of fame. Lol
The thing about the 7/8 chevelle, is it wasn't intended. Smokey used the main blueprints, which have minimum and maximum tolerances for every part of the body. he built the entire car to the absolute minimums, no maximums. This predated the body templates, so all you had were the blueprints
I strongly recommend viewers read Smokey's autobiography. There is something there for any reader. Smokey was very concerned about climate change and was a complex man.
One of the baddest men to turn a wrench.
I heard a story once that when Smokey was running Husons he reversed rotation of the engine to help handling. After the race they were coming around to tech the engine. He tore the engine down put everything in a tub of gas and set it on fire so they couldn't inspect the engine.
May be the same Hudson, but he had an illegal head on the car and it won. When he tore it down he tossed the head in a cutoff barrel of dirty gas. Said he would pull it out when it cooled off. Then he pulled legal head out of dirty gas that was in there all along
I would love to see a follow up on the re-build for this on Americarna
This truck is now in Dale jr’s racecar graveyard. If you watch his show lost speedways, it’s in the last episode.
There was no 7/8 scale Chevelle, Smokey Yunick has confirmed that multiple times and the car has been measured and found to full size. That car unless it has been sold is at Richard Childress Racing on display. Smokey challenged anyone to go there and measure it themselves.
Tribute truck for sure , Black and Gold .. 427 Big Block for power ...Or A Duramax diesel / Allison
Thank you Lloyd! Informative, interesting and I certainly enjoyed seeing the star of the show, Mickey! He had that truck 40 years! How old is he ! ( :
Well is there anymore to the progress of the truck? I would love to see it with the 302 or the 427, but what if it had a hot vapor engine in it
Look up Danny, his little brother.
The 7/8 scale was just a rumor to distract from other "massaged, questionable" areas
Yeah even if that original motor threw a rod, where is it ? It belongs with the truck
I might have a cxouple of suggestions that will improve your setup. My brother and his friend made a headgasket with four sets of platinum points equally mounted around the cylinder. It was layered in between the gasket material like a circuit board. So instead of firing from the spark plug it fired from each set of points. The platinum points had no place to hold any carbon build up so would not foul out like a spark plug. and firing the gas mixture with four sets of spark burned the fuel vapor quicker and more completely.(old airplanes had two sparkplugs per cylinder)
Giving an increase of power with less fuel consumtion and less emissions. My idea to add to this is to reduce fuel droplet size thus increasing surface area of the fuel by using an ultrasonic mister which instantly vaporizes a drop of liquid to a finer mist than a carburator is capable of. This should also increase power while decreasing consumption andEmmisions. The reason you do not see this gasket method of spark on the market now is a sparkplug company bought their patent. Their was a drawback to the design they had not worked out at the time and that was that the gasket was thicker and you had to torque it down just right or it would blow the gasket. But this was 40 years ago and we have much better materials to work with now. I really hope you read this or anyone else . It could be an easy add on for cars well worth the cost for the increased economy and decrease of emmisions. Hopefully give a little more time for the transition to the totally electric cars that are coming. Jake The Snake Was interested in the gasket for his race cars as it would have been a huge advantage. So if you need an investor you might want to try him. It also goes to show how money trumps humanityand that big corporations (Firestone) are more concerned with the bottom line than reducing polution to save mankind. We really need to institute a crimes against humanity law for people like that and Big Pharma who suppress or overprice discoveries that benefit life.. Please send a comment should you read this. I like to think I am at least trying yo help.
The reason "0ld" airplane engines had 2 spark plugs per cylinder and 2 magnetos was to have 2 complete independent systems for safety redundancy if one quit the engine would still run you can't pull over to the nearest cloud your coming down not good
Where is the small block mystery motor? That’s the very most important part especially with smoky !!! Yeah it blew a rod so what where is that motor? Even if it’s out in the field take it apart and measure it check it out get the info on the damn thing even if there’s no way to ever rebuild it! Where is that motor!
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What rules Bill?
The truck appears in this funky home video, towing a trailer with the number 13 Camaro. ruclips.net/video/ccg4t865kcg/видео.html
Those guys were God's.
Hard nosed Pollock good guy to talk too.
Leave it crusty, add new running gear with a Smokey inspired dz302
Burn it...
7/8 Scale car is a myth Smokey said it wasn't true , it awesome people believe it true
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Ray Evernham's voice hurts my ears.
You Boy's .Smokey be very dissatisfied with this project still not finished? I heard it's still not Smokey approved finished.
Working on it.