As I remember they did not let the car race that day or later either.
(practice ???, I don't remember) But I thought having the lower control
arms all streamlined and smooth as a button and other cool cool stuff IT
WAS STOCK (ha)
Kas Kastner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
To: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Justification for cheating
> Last year I did a story on Vic Edelbrock and some of his vintage cars.
Among
> them, the Smokey Yunick "cheater" Camaro for Trans-Am. Park it alongside a
> legal (i.e. Penske) Camaro of late '60s vintage and the differences become
> obvious.
>
> Thing is, in vintage/historic events, Edelbrock runs it in its full
cheater
> configuration because, historically, that was what the car was! The point
of
> vintage is not really to win races or even see who has the fastest car,
but
> to exercise cars from the era on the track and if they have some history
all
> the better. Yunick's car definitely has history, so it is appropriate that
> it run in the configuration in which it made that history.
>
> It should be noted that, according to Edelbrock, Yunick really set the car
> up for record runs on the Salt Flats, and AFAIK it never actually raced
> Trans-Am in that configuration, but it did show up for a Riverside
Trans-Am
> test day once and rather embarrassed all the others that day. Of course,
if
> you know anything about Smokey, you know he loved the stir it caused.
>
> --Rocky Entriken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
> Cc: fot@autox.team.net <fot@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:59 PM
> Subject: Justification for cheating
>
>
> >I overheard this the other day at a Vintage race and loved it so much I
> >thought about getting a plaque made. Giving Tim static about LEGAL made
me
> >remember it. The gist of the conversation was this guy said he was more
> >likely to bend the rules in a vintage race car than in the SCCA. Because
> >in Vintage it doesn't matter, the cars are all so different anyway. And
he
> >races vintage because it's the best seat in the house for looking at
> >wonderful cars at speed--he just wanted to move his seat to the front.
> >
> >I almost blew root beer out my nose.
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