Man! I remember the days when Smokey put an inflated basketball in the gas tank! He then deflated it, and got in another gallon and a half of gas. He got caught though! Another time, NASCAR put in new fuel tank restrictions, so Smokey ran a big diameter fuel line back and forth, and back and forth, and got another couple of gallons just in the fuel line! Back then, things were fun!
If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’. LOL
Yeah, Smokey was my hero too. Remember when he came out with the 7/8 scale Chevelle and beat the big boys! Ingenious!
Took ‘em awhile to realize it.
Smokey also showed up at the beginning of a season with a hand-made 7/8 Chevrolet. It was beautiful workmanship.
Everyone was walking all around it & trying to figure out what was different.
When it was parked on the pit road next to a real Chevrolet, the jig was up. Smokey held to his guns & said—find in the rule book where I cannot do this.
That started the templates for every kind of car brought to NASCAR races.