[Chevelle-list] Chevelles in nascar in 68-72?

[Jason Fiegel]

Wow, thanks again for all the info, everything you guys have sent me is just the type of information I am looking for. I was thinking about doing something different, make my car look like a NASCAR. We have a guy that goes to a local cruise spot, has a large white car, (the make slips me right now) that looks like Lee Petty's car. It's bare bones, smooth metal dash, roll cage, just like a race car, just enough to keep it street legal. I mean I am a chevelle fan but even when I go to a show all the nice restoration start to blend together, I want something that stands out in the crowd. 
Thanks again everyone,
Jason F.
69 Chevelle
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: SLWeaver 
  To: The Chevelle Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Chevelles in nascar in 68-72?


  I don't think they had to use that years car ...Earnhardt Sr. Used a 1964 chevelle to win his first "asphalt"
   race in 1974? here's a model of it...
  http://auctions.nascar.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=87825854&prmenbr=63306014&aunbr=88172564&topPic=&MoreSubs=

  Yunick scaled a 66 down to 7/8 ... 
  http://www.legendsofnascar.com/smokey.htm#cars
  Curtis Turner's Chevelle (a 66) at Atlanta (in 1967)
  in the days when NASCAR first began using templates for inspection, a former employee of Yunick's once told McKim that Smokey asked NASCAR if he could borrow the templates so he could make sure his car was right. But he also modified them, and came to Atlanta with a Chevelle that was slightly smaller -- legend has it as seven-eighths scale -- than it should have been. Since he was the only owner running a Chevelle, no one would have known had Bobby Johns not shown up unexpectedly with the same car model.
  "They put that template on Bobby's Chevelle, and it doesn't come close," McKim said. "They threatened to throw him out. He went crazy, and eventually NASCAR realized, 'Wait a minute ...'"



  During Curtis' driving career he won more than 350 races, but it all came to an end in 1967 at Atlanta International Raceway when he had a horrific crash driving Smokey Yunick's little black and gold Chevelle # 13. 
  Curtis was badly shaken but not seriously hurt one of the most spectacular crashes ever, but Smokey fired Pops on the spot.  About the firing Smokey said, "I'm not going to build the race car the kills Curtis Turner." 





  Raymond Friday Hassler drove a 68/69...see some pics here...in 70

  http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Friday_Hassler.htm


  Laguna's were big in Nascar in mid 70's ... 


  http://coloradoracingmemories.com/crm_mcgriff_hershel/crmmcgriff.htm

  SLWeaver 



  ----- Original Message ----
  From: Jason Fiegel <jaybird1 at elknet.net>
  To: The Chevelle Mailing List <chevelle-list at chevelles.net>
  Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 3:45:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Chevelles in nascar in 68-72?


  Yeah I have seen footage of older cars, like you said a 66 chevelle in 68, a 69 chevelle in a 72 race I think. thanks for the info.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Terry S Hodges 
    To: The Chevelle Mailing List 
    Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:31 PM
    Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Chevelles in nascar in 68-72?


    From what I could find by GOOGLING...It seems that the 1966 Chevelle body was still being used, at least at the 1968 Daytona 500

    http://www.racing-reference.info/race?id=1968-04&series=W



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