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Old 05-21-2002, 09:15 AM
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Smokey (and probably more) can be found in his massive, three-volume autobiography, "Best Damn Garage In Town", which he finished shortly before his death. It is amusing reading, to say the least. Smokey's writing is pretty colorful. He never had much in the way of formal education, and the book's editors intentionally kept the book kind of rough in order to retain the flavor of Yunick's style of writing--and speaking. The anecdotes can get kind of rough, too, particularly when viewed through today's P.C. lens, but there's a hell of a lot of interesting stuff mixed in.

Anyhow, you can order the slipcased, 1,000+-page tome for around $95 from www.smokeyyunick.com

Bob
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