Any Smokey Yunick fans out there?

I am halfway through reading his "Best damn garage in town" autobiography. Even if only 10% is true, what a ride.

I need to find a copy of that at a reasonable price. Surely they'll reprint at some point, no?

Actually, I just gave up and recycled a bunch of copies of Circle Track from 20-odd years ago that I'd be sporadically digging through 'cause they published my letter in Smokey's column and I couldn't locate it. IIRC, though, they'd edited it to be even dumber than it had been when I'd written it...

Hey, the Kindle edition isn't insanely priced! Hrm...

The price did make my eyes bug-out...but it was an xmas present.

I have the kindle edition - well worth the money.

My GF smoked a eunich once, said it was like lite beer...no taste & less filling.

Ba-dum-bum...remember to tip your waitstaff and I'll be here for 5 more shows!

Smokey reminds me of the more fun times in racing, before corporate sponsorships were huge money, and where it really was just a bunch of good ol' boys havin' fun. I miss that.

Nope, he's a thieving bastard who stole all of my hot-rodding ideas before I thought of them! Hell he reached into my Mom's uterus and stole my ideas from my unfertilized egg!

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I like the bellhousing supercharger ....

It's a great story. Most of it should be true

Love to find a copy I could afford

Read it. Actually, I thought the best part was the WWII stuff at the beginning. The first part was easier to read, too. As the book progresses it becomes less and less readable. I think he put some time in writing the beginning, then got bored with it and just started dictating into a tape machine.

Kind of like the Burt Levy books. The first one was professionally edited, then they just got worse and worse until they became virtually unreadable.

I named my gray cat Smokey the Eunuch.

Mr. Yunick was quite bright and probably a hell of a lot of fun (yes, i read the book) but NO writer.

There was a paperback version that was affordable - at least, I thought there was. I might have to pull mine out again and give it another read.

I have the paperback version - it's like a crystal ball back into racing's crazy past.

The audio book is great. John Deloren did it!

every time i would see a ricer with a big wing on their car i would just smile and think is this what "smokey" had in mind when he put the first wing on a car

Keith Tanner wrote: There was a paperback version that was affordable - at least, I thought there was. I might have to pull mine out again and give it another read.

Amazon paperback version = $95

Kindle = $22

how much is a kindle ?

For sale here if you just want to download it (still bloody expensive by ebook standards):

http://shop.carbonpressonline.com/product.sc?productId=51

Practically DRM-free, whether they want it that way or not

wbjones wrote: how much is a kindle ?

If you're running Windows, Mac OS, iOS or Android, just get the free Kindle app from Amazon. You only need the hardware Kindle for specific functionality like making use of the Kindle lending library.

If $22 is "bloody expensive" (if you've ever written a book, you'd know there's a lot of work involved that isn't reflected in the number of electrons used to transfer it), check your local library or borrow a copy. Heck, you could probably print out that version from Carbon Press if you feel the need for dead trees.

I'll sell mine for $30 shipped. PM me.

If you look into it I believe you will find both the paper and digital books are sold by a family business started by Smokey thru which to sell his book. They have expanded to include a few bios from other racers but I believe they are still the small Daytona beach business they were in the beginning... a little over 10 years ago.

I have both the paper and digital editions and have gifted a couple paper editions.

To me Smokey embodies everything good that the generation of Americans that went to war in 1942 then defined the US in the 50 and early 60's represents.

I am on my second reading. It is a good story, I agree that Smokey ain't no Steinbeck on the wordsmithing. It is well worth reading.