By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

One of the coolest and most legendary stock cars to never run a race is for sale on eBay for the low, low price of $950,000. It is Smokey Yunick’s Chevelle that was entered at the 1968 Daytona 500, denied entrance and never saw a race track again. It’s packed with subtle enhancements and sly features that caused tech inspectors to throw the red flag in the pits. This is the car that people claim to be 15/16ths scale, which it is not.

So what were some of the things that made the tech inspectors see red? A front bumper cut and made taller by a couple inches to form an air dam, flushed out glass, a vortex interrupter formed by altering the rear of the roof, a custom frame, dropped floors to form a belly pan, and a host of other stuff that wasn’t specifically banned in the rule book, but was after they saw this car.

All those alterations eventually became standard equipment on any big level stock car, but like most things, Yunick was years ahead of the curve. It would be more than cool to get this thing in a wind tunnel and see how it actually does and see how the modifications made the car a better or worse performer.

If you swing a wrench, you should hold Yunick in high esteem. We say he was one of the best to ever ply the trade. Tech inspectors, pray that no one with his handle on rule book manipulation shows up at your track!

A big thanks to BangShift.com reader and forum member Spidergearsman for the tip!

Source: eBay Motors — Smokey Yunick’s legendary Chevelle!

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

My weekend started early Friday afternoon, when I drove my Corvette to Drift Office in Auburn, WA to meet Rob and Jen for a little dyno testing and video shooting. Bob and Nathan from Drift Office ran the big Dynojet while we tested to see how much power gain the new ACDelco iridium plugs and 8.5mm MSD Super Conductor wires would give my Corvette over its stock equipment. Then Vince from Trifecta Performance custom tuned the Corvette’s PCM for a net rear wheel gain of 26hp and 21ft-lbs of torque. Subsequently, I spent the rest of my weekend trying to keep my right foot off the floor.

How about you?  What did you do this weekend?

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Justin and his dad like to take their wicked Nova muddin’. More pics on his 1971 Chevy Nova ride page!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

When SOTW winner DiabloVT007′s close friend was killed in Iraq, he decided to change his Camaro from a show car to a tribute car. See more pics on his 2010 Camaro ride page.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday Jen showed you a Buick-powered RX-7. Well how about a rotary-powered Nova? Read all about it at rx7club.com Via build-threads.com

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Today’s photo briefly appeared on EIJesselok’s new ride page for his ’79 Malibu wagon, but it doesn’t seem to be there anymore. The big rims look just seems to work on late-70′s, early-80′s Chevies when it’s done right, don’t you think? Keep those Photo of the Day tips coming!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Hey, why not take a rear-engined, four-wheel independent suspension car and throw on a couple of straight axles and a  blown 350 up front? It’s cool to pick something totally different for a radical project, and if you’re going for a drag-strip-scorching gasser, a Corvair is about the unlikeliest candidate you can get. It’s on eBay now, and the seller claims only 100 miles on the build. So I guess it’s up to the buyer to break it in. Check out the auction! Via VWVortex.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

The Volt is now in testing on public roads without much in the way of camouflage. These two were spotted on I-66 in Virginia by VWVortex member jamerican1. I’m a little disappointed that, rolling down the road, the Volt basically just looks like a Prius. But I guess pretty much everything electrified looks like a Prius these days, and the Volt has so much more to offer over the current crop of hybrids. One more pic below the jump!

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Over 500 2010 Camaro owners drove their fifth-gens across the US and Canada to participate in the first annual Camaro5Fest in Valdosta, Georgia. Read more about it at Camaro5.com!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Now here’s a project that’s gonna be fun to follow on CarDomain. How about a frame off resto on a ’67 Chevelle that’s gonna be motivated by a “454 Big Block 70 over with Edlebrock tunnel ram and two Demon 650cfm carbs, blueprinted and dyno’ed at 870 horses”? See more on Romell’s ride page.