[markjohnson]

Some great books mentioned here! The "Chevrolet-Racing?" book is rare and can be expensive and hard to find sometimes but it is a great read, even if they don't get into very much Drag Racing detail, which was a little bit of a disappointment for me. The 3-Volume Smokey Yunick book set is an absolute MUST-HAVE item for any and all Chevrolet fans(or ANY racing fan for that matter). I actually enjoyed reading his World War II exploits in the first book than the racing stories! One of the books mentions several neat inventions that Smokey came up with like a bellhousing supercharger that used the pressure plate as an impellar with a hidden pipe up to the air cleaner but my favorite item was his clutch-less Hurst shifter. Get this.....it was a slightly larger Hurst Shifter that through a simple system of cams & cables, disengaged and re-engaged the clutch as the shifter was operated! Does that sound neat or what!?