[AT] The Rules

[charliehill]

I have no idea why that showed up again 2:51 min. after the first post.  I 
didn't send it again.

Charlie
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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] The Rules


> 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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> From: <rdhaskell at juno.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] The Rules
>
>
>> 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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