Smokey Yunick....was: Re: [Shotimes] knife edge crank

George Fourchy krazgeo@comcast.net
Sun, 09 May 2004 21:22:00 -0700


On Sun, 9 May 2004 23:10:43 -0400, Ron Nottingham wrote:

>Way, way back (late
>70's/early 80s) when he had a Q&A column in PopSci or PopMech (can't
>remember, as I had subs to both) called "Say, Smokey..." Back then, I didn't
>know a thing about cars, or who did what to them (I was about 10-12 then),
>but one thing was for sure, I was always impressed with his answers (not to
>mention his humor always made me laugh).

That was Popular Science.  That magazine also had the fictional "Gus Wilson", and he
had the "Model Garage".  That's where I got the name for my little enterprise, and
my website...I thought it was a cool name for a garage.  I used to subscribe to
Popular Science for 10 years at a time.  Then later on, their feature stories
started getting a little fantastic, so I let it go.

Those were the REAL good old days.

George