[AT] The Rules

[charliehill]

Ron, I can't attest to the truth of it but the version of that story I heard 
said he used a good portion of the roll bar for the fuel line.

Charlie Hill

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> Henry "Smokey" Yunick
> Yunick was especially fond of bending the NASCAR rule book. In 1968
> during Speed Weeks, NASCAR officials pulled the gas tank out of his
> Pontiac after they thought his car was getting excessive fuel mileage.
> After passing a rigid inspection, Yunick got in the car-- with the gas
> tank lying on the ground -- fired it up and drove back to his space in
> the garage area, leaving NASCAR inspectors dumbfounded.
> "Smokey looked and saw where the NASCAR rule book wouldn't define
> something and he'd make his own improvisations," said Bobby Allison, who
> made a couple of starts in Yunick-prepared cars. "There's that gas tank
> story. The gas tank was the right size but he made the fuel line so it
> held a couple of gallons of gas. So he was able to drive away without the
> gas tank. I don't want to say he didn't step outside the lines, but he
> was really smart about those things."
>
> Ron Haskell
> rdhaskell at juno.com
> Riverside, California USA
> http://picasaweb.google.com/RonHaskell
>
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:54:48 -0400 Dave Merchant <kosh at ncweb.com> writes:
>> There is a NASCAR saying:
>>
>> "The rule book is your friend"
>>
>> ie, whatever isn't in it is OK, and it's your basis for protests of
>> other cars.
>>
>> I've been trying to track down which car owner said it first
>>
>> Dave Merchant
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