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I regret that I never met Smokey or Bill Jenkins, they were always my heroes. One of the reasons nothing came of Smokey's vapor engine was that GM bought the patent, according to Hot Rod Magazine at the time. Perhaps they buried it, or it didn't pan out in the long run.

Dude that Pontiac turned to 55 Chevy then a Toronto or mustang .I'm 62

2" pipe 11 foot long holds less than 2 gallons. Research what you say.

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You forgot the spoiler that he mowed it into the roof and how he tilted the glass in in the back that 66 Chevelle is beautiful man.

I bet Smokey isn't in the Hall of Frame either. Are you sure it wasn't the C-Frame and the D-Frame that he redesigned?

He used steel wool in the intake to break up the fuel into vapor but if anyone thinks that big oil will allow that kind of milage then you just don't know how government works, they kill the car industry with regulations that big oil don't allow, nobody can make a car that gets over 30mpg

I'm a mechanical engineer. Smokey was brilliant. He will be (is) missed. We need more people like that. I still have the issue of Hot Rod magazine that covered his Fiero. Amazing!

All gasoline fueled engines run on gasoline vapor, not liquid gasoline, that is a major function of a carburetor to atomize the gasoline so it turns into vapor in the intake manifold

the acid camaros was Penske...

all early tractors were built from cars and trucks...

This would be a decent video if it wasn't ruined by fake cars that are completely incorrect with stupid AI animation that is totally incorrect & fugly. If I am watching a documentary on Historical race cars I would rather see the actual car in a still image then some "artificial intelligence" manufactured nonsense race footage. Showing a 1955 Chevy While discussing a 1961 Pontiac is absolutely sloppy & lazy. As if that wasn't bad enough you made a 1972 Ford Mustang wearing the iconoc livery of the no.13 gold/black 1968 Camaro? That is quite literally sacrilege. It shows you are not a real Enthusiast who cares about being accurate even when your sloppy mistakes are going to enrage fellow car nerds

B frame?

The inside looked nothing like this! This is what it looked like off the showroom floor…

met him when i lived in Daytona Beach, a genius and a nice guy !

Fascinating! Did Smokey rewrite the the rules of NASCAR singlehandedly or was he head of a team?

Set the speed to 1.25. He’s much clearer and it keeps the storyline in an arpeggio song cadence. Much better

Best left turner in the day

Wow , just WOW !

Yunick also played a huge part in the concept of sand and water blasting the insides of intake manifold and exhaust manifolds to allow them to be a lot more efficient. Some would disagree, but he tried it first!

There weren’t any rule for what he was doing,so he wasn’t cheating.he was the most creative man in asscar back then!!!

The narration of this video is horrible.

15:51 impossible the only thing impossible is getting someone to sponsor such an invention. Don't be fucking stupid alright many great men have lost their life's their careers their families for trying to do good in this world you clearly are too young to understand and I understand that so maybe you can take this opportunity to make a good video just like this one about similar inventions and inventors that were silenced big giant corporations. Look at bananas in South America the CIA infiltrated and killed people over the control of fucking bananas bro you think I'm fucking playing I'll tell you what I use to tell my girl in 07' Google IT

2:15 The first Camaro was a 1967 model, Yunich couldn't have created one in 1960.

"Smokey's Automotive Service" was the name of the business. Its slogan was 'BEST DAMN GARAGE IN TOWN."

@ 14:21 Yes... yes, you really said "eye-less" of Man for "Isle of Man." I'm sure it's not your fault... It's pronounced like "I'll of Man." and "isle" is an island and the 'isl' part is pronounced the same way. Please tell me you don't pronounce "island" like 'is-land.' And BTE, there is an actual definition of 'decimate' and most people are using the word incorrectly. "Decimate" is based on the word "decimal," you know... as in TEN. To 'decimate' refers to losing one in ten. It doesn't mean to utterly destroy something even if everyone else uses it that way.

Around Daytona, the locals say. "Smokey is a legend, all you have to do is ask him".

This guy was one of my heroes

At Holman and Moody in the 70s we built a 429 Ford with roller bearings and roller cam bearings roller cam turned 13000 rpm on dyno and has documentation had 671 Detroit blower 2 1200 cam Holly's started to smooth out at 8000 rpm screamed at 10,000 John Holman read the build and said it would do more .we tried to blow it up dyno would go to 13 ,000 max so we maxed it for 30 minutes at 13,000 she took it motor is at a undisclosed location in North Carolina in a crate

It's not cheating if you're the first one to do it.

HE WAS VERY GREAT !

Smart, sneaky bastard he was.

I had the privilege of meeting him at his shop in Daytona in March of 1994! I was a young guy at the time, and had a book he had written , and had put his advice to pretty good use!!! I was bold, and somewhat fearless. I actually looked him up in the phone book, called his house, and his wife answered the phone! I asked if this was smokies house, and she affirmed it was! She put him on the phone, and i asked directly if I could meet him! He said that he was home for lunch, but would be back at the shop at 2:00. I was there with bells on!!! He probably spent a half hour talking to me!!! This left an impression on me that lasts even today! I miss real men who no matter what their stature, took time to engage normal people like we mattered too!!! His motto was, "if the rule book doesn't say you can't, you have to assume you can"!!! Thats not cheating!!!

Hell yea

First time seeing this channel love the intro music! Can’t understand the idea of calling it a Racing channel. When your intro includes video of Drift cars? Is it actually Racing? If you’re judged on style points, like ice-skating?

just so you know gas engines don't burn liquid gas because liquid gas doesn't burn, it vaporizes and that burns. Engines without catalytic converters have exhaust that smells like gas because most of the fuel is escaping out the tailpipe unburned. If you vaporize the fuel before it enters the combustion chamber it will completely combust and give you more efficient operation of the engine. Inventors that have tried to sell their gas vapor engine technology in the past have either become unbelievably wealthy selling their patents to oil companies with non disclosure agreements so the public never learns about and uses them or they die early by "suicide", poisoning, overdose, etc... I made the most ghetto unsophisticated and unrefined system that I got 228 mpg using, and never got the opportunity to refine because the transmission on that car went out on it. :(

Everything considered, especially how history has a bad habit of being distorted, Pixar treated Smokey's legendary status very well in "Cars 3". There's no doubt that the man is an unsung legend of auto racing. AFAIK, his last project was getting insane fuel mileage from a heavily modified Pontiac Fiero by vaporizing the gasoline before burning it. Let's just say that Smokey and Bill France didn't like one another and leave it at that.

The vaporized fuel idea was tried over 50 years ago. The fuel line was routed over the manifold so fuel was vaporized by the time it entered the carburetor in a jeep with a V8. Allegedly resulting in over 50 mpg. A patent search and lawyers were too expensive for further development.

Smokey eunich

The 7/8 Chevell was a '66 model not a '67 model as shown...

Just a small point of clarification. Smokey wasn't the first person to install a downforce wing on a racecar. That happened in 1957 at Columbus Motor Speedway. Supermodified driven by Jim Cushman.

When I was a teenager (4 decades ago) I read a book by Smokey on performance engines. My current understanding of poppet valve piston engine performance stands firmly on the foundation built on those principles. He knew how to bend rules too, evidently.

the hot vapor iron duke did NOT work

He never cheated, when they have to write a rule book to make it fair for your competition you have won to much. They continued to add and rewtite the book because he was so far ahead of the others. Not a cheat a innovator.

Smokey's 7/8 Chevell was a 1966 model...... Your Car is a 1967 model....looks nice...But, Good effort on the video.... Got the pole at 1967 Daytona 500...abt.@ 181mph....thx

I can’t look at this car 01:50 without thing about watching Disney’s movie “Cars” with my son.

Smokey also has several U.S. patents. It's really interesting. Plus Smokey claims he has written have the rules in the rules book. It's not cheating if it's not a rule. It's looking for the unfair advantages. It's where true innovation lives. Racing is what made any car manufacturers growth.

I remember mag column called "Ask Smokey". People wrote in with a car problem & he would diagnose it & offer a solution.

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I had the honor of meeting Smokey one year at SEMA, when he was sponsored by Prolong additives. Can't find the poster he signed for me that day. You forgot to mention Vince Piggins, the engineering genius at Hudson and, later, Chevrolet. He and Smokey teamed up throughout the 50's, 60's and 70's: czcams.com/users/shortsHWt31o2vUfg?si=HWEcDl8-X9YvI1e2