Smokey Yunick will always
inspire
This photo is taken on North Beach Street in Daytona Beach, Florida about the
same time as Smokey
passes away in May 2001. My last visit was too late. www.smokeyyunick.com
July 1 2006
Bar-b-que,
drag racing and loud music match well together.
Agneta and Tommy doing the math. Figuring out the diameter of a balancer
knowing the circumference
only. Agneta used one life line when calling her daddy Thore Roth. The answer
was 8 inches. Cheers!
It
should be like this always.
We made a 40,2 meter long dragstrip (1/10th of the full length quartermile)
and during the evening the
kids developed an advanced handicap system, even if Niclas seemed to bug the
system since he was
going quicker and quicker...
Niclas
Wikström's cool bike. My God what he pedaled all evening, without getting
tired as well.
Top
Fuel Thore helped Axel to do a burnout.
Simon Wikström always had to give handicap.
Brasil out after an exciting game versus France in the World Cup! Who could
ever imagine that?
"We live here"
May 8 2006
Finally the
SS-art is decorating my corner at TBDGIT - The Best Damn Garage In Town! I got
it from
Uncle Rick "LoveSS" in Atlanta at the SSHS5-race in November 2005.
Take a look here!
July 18 2005
Sweet summer nights!
June 24 - Midsummer Party 2005
We had a sunny Midsummer Party in our garage. More pics later. Click this one
to see a mega-version!
May 22 2005
This half of the garage has been very busy the last days...click it
to enjoy close up.
Anxious moments! New motor start up. Oil? Temp? Fuel pressure? Ignition? KP
leaning over engine,
Tore walking around and around car in search of anything. They've been working
around the clock this
weekend! But everything's perfect. Good luck at Pro Mod Series opener at Santa
Pod next weekend!
May 12 2005
At last! The Impala SS in its place in the Best Damn Garage
in Town! We've painted the ceiling and
Tommy installed the electrics for the fluorescent
lamps and then it was Go Ahead!
A lot of space around the car, all doors could be opened and still a lot of
space.
Blackout SS and
I just love this place! Now we want to have the company of Tommy and his giant
Lincoln Mark V called The Great White. Click image to see the Big picture!
May 7 - 2005
It takes time even if we are 4 people on it with all kinds of
brushes and rollers. And it is TWO times...
May 3 - 2005
Ulf made the second floor today in very good speed! Next step is the ceiling
underneath and fluorescent
lamps and the stairs which we decided to have on the wall. Click this picture
to see a larger one!
Tommy is finished with the Workbench of his Dreams! Is there a competition for
Workbenches....?
May
2 - 2005
Regarding
how careful they would be with their new bench - I was wrong!
Everything
- and everybody - were on the bench tonight as they
mounted Patrick's tool wall panels. And engine all over.
April 30 - 2005
Patrick back
in town, eager to join us in all the happy work in TBDGIT. He and Goofy boarded
their
Pro Mod workbench (double the length of Tommy's and mine) and topped it with
stainless.
What can you say? Stainless is stainless. But I know how it will sound from
this part of the garage:
"NO NO! CAREFUL WITH THE BENCH!!! They will probably work on the floor.
April 28 - 2005
What a happening!
At last we have the second floor! The two Swedish snickers (carpenters) to the
far
right built this in one day! We don't know exactly how they did it but we are
sure that they must have had
some terrific fika along the day! Now we will build the stairs, floor, walls,
restroom, store etc. ourselves.
Click the pictures to get really BIG versions!
From Tommy's Lincoln corner. Click it!
Second floor. Spacious!
Ulf "Goofy" Shöllin is not only an OFAB Pro Mod team member,
he is
also a carpenter which you find out very quickly on an evening
like this! Tommy is curious of my MDF boarding solution...
I chose to use a laminate floor on top. I believe in a hard surface. If broken
it can be changed (no glue).
And I wanted a pale color to make all work easy so I chose Björk - Birch.
I'm from Umeå
you know - the
Town Of Birches (there are 3000 birches in that town!). I'm happy but I just
love Tommy's racebench!
April
27 - 2005
We painted our work benches last night. Tommy boarded his bench and then he
and Ulf had a lot
of trimming to do. After that they nailed a layer of fine Swedish Masonite
fiber board to get an even
surface. I've chosen a much more lazy solution, an MDF-board.
Very Hot Rod! Tommy found this kitchen plastic floor on a roll at Hornbach's.
In this environment it
of course turns into RACING extra ordinary! He glued this mat onto the Masonite.
Micke Westberg,
who is the manager for Lars-Inge Johansson's Pro Mod '66 Chevelle station wagon,
came by and had
good ideas on the trimmings. I love Tommy's Racing Bench, but I will have another
design.
April
24 - 2005
The
Pro Street side! Tommy has welded work benches for all of us and he has put
air pressure outlets
everywhere! And electric sockets. Next step is to paint the benches, bolt them
to the floor and making
the top boards for them and mount the wises and tool wall panels. And soon we'll
have the
second floor above us. Thanks Tommy! Click it for a little larger picture!
March 20 - 2005
It
can't be luck only... Patrick's awards from his Pro Mod career so far (some
are still at home!)
Tommy "Aga" Olsson is the 1st interior designer in our garage and
is always getting something done.
We're still awaiting the professional carpenter team to help us to make the
second floor on the other side.
While
"Top Fuel Thore" and "Goofy" enjoy socializing with some
black
coffee - as the rest of us - Tommy is working working working with
the garage. Now he's doing the water and the electrical, and still
has the time to be very social.
A
great idea! Family
Bar-b-que at the garage (inside the garage, actually!) We filled the garage
with the
feeling of a pit area at the races and it really made us believe in summer again!
Annelie Olsson and Axel
were the chefs. We also had a lot of visits during this weekend, the door was
slamming all the time.
Hot
Rod Hot Dog with all extras, also the "Bostic" cucumber. Have you
seen Axel? Nah...last time I saw
him he was behind Patricks Camaro...
January 2 - 2005
OFAB Pro Mod clutchman "Top Fuel Tore" Axelsson was
curious of the garage project and came to visit us.
First test of half the garage. This is the right color of the floor. Grey. Following
pictures can show
different colors but it's because of the difficult blended light from outside
and inside lamps.
Agneta and Axel came with
fika. Swedes need to fika many times a day. Everybody fika.
Then everybody works better.
Fika. Coffee and kanelbulle.
Cinnamon bun.
Axel's good friend Tommy let him help with funny things. We moved all the things
once more.
Then after vacuumcleaning it was time to paint.
It takes time to paint 240 square meters - 2 times - but we were five painters
tonight so it was
only an hour. Moving all our things and vacuumcleaning took 4 hours.
When the floor was covered at last, it was of course time for another fika.
Janusz
covered the last spot. Tomorrow we'll paint
the second - and last - layer of the grey paint.
December
30
- 2004
First
layer has dried since yesterday, in the first half of the garage. Tommy awaits
to begin with the
second layer. Patrick and I were also painting tonight.
Tommy
also had the serious responsability as the blender.
Drip drop...
Now
this will dry until next year before we move all the stuff over again to paint
the
second half of the garage. We talk every day about our Garage Opening Party...
December 29 - 2004
The
walls and roof are done, now it's time to paint the floor. Patrick is using
laser to get the
masking tapes straight.
Patrick
and Tommy are concentrating on the blending of the special floor paint. We want
grey but
first it looked like chocolate milkshake. It is decided by the gram...
December 27 - 2004
The painting now done to 75 %! We're aiming to finish it this year!?
It's always amazing to see the differences when new paint is applied, no matter
where.
"Let there be light"
December 18
- 2004
Here's something for Zeke - the puffing Big Bad Wolf.
The original. www.smokeyyunick.com
Goofy was painting when I arrived. He and Tony did the painting on second floor.
Tommy and Jaanus were the ground support. I took this picture.
Tonight half the garage will be painted. Tomorrow the other half. Hopefully.
It is getting really bright!!!
Whiteout.
December
2
- 2004
OFAB
Motorsports crewmen Tommy "Aga" Olsson and Ulf "Goofy" Schöllin
are filling the walls under the
supervision of Patrick Wikström. Now everything is happening very quickly
in the new garage.
The walls will be painted on saturday!
"Hello Smokey!? It's Anders from Bilsport Magazine in Sweden!! I called
you a week ago! Smokey!!"
"Yea yea...just wait a little, damn'it!"
www.smokeyyunick.com
November
27
- 2004
The new aluminium port with a lot of windows amuses us very much!
Bzzzz...dink! Yes, we like!
The isolated long wall is
finished. The carpenters did a very good job!
Now we have moved all our
things into the new garage. Patrick's and my things are mixed which could be
an advantage for me when next season starts? All our stuff and the Impala SS
is placed 2 meters off the
walls because still much work remains. To tear down the wooden panel, to fill
and paint the walls.
And to build the second floor (on the other side) And to paint the floor in
two steps. And more...
Patrick and his youngest
son Niklas were happy to roll the Camaro into the new garage!
The Good Guy!
Bertil Karlsson - "Farbror Bertil" (Uncle Bertil) is the owner of
OFAB / Orust Fartygsservice AB (shipping)
which is the main sponsor of Patrick Wikström's Pro Mod circus. Bertil
is the owner of this building
which the Best Damn Garage in Town is a part of. Of course Bertil is also the
sponsor of this major
rebuild! We owe him a lot. You can almost see that Tommy is in love with Farbror
Bertil...
Finally
together in the soon to be Best Damn Garage in Town! Europe's quickest and fastest
Pro Mod
and Europe's quickest and fastest Impala SS. We are awaiting something that
may well be the World's
quickest and fastest Lincoln Mark V...
November 19 - 2004
The carpenters have been
working a couple of days with the panels and isolation. When the long wall
is completed they'll move on to the short walls and after that they'll build
the second floor on top of that
side where you see Tommy talking in his mobile phone. That will be the Pro Street
Side for the Lincoln
Mark V and Impala SS projects. The other side will be the Pro Mod Side for Patrick's
Camaro.
November
14 - 2004
Patrick Wikström inspects
the perfect concrete floor in The Best Damn Garage in Town. He and Tommy have
also changed all the fluorescent lamps in the ceiling. We are waiting for the
carpenters to come and do the rest.
October 2 - 2004
The work with "The Best
Damn Garage In Town" continues a little quicker after the racing season
is over. The floor will be
casted next week. We work on our cars in the garage next door until this is
finished in November - December. Patrick
Wikström will have his Pro Mod area over there and over here you'll find
a white Lincoln Mark V and a black Impala SS.
On the outside we have a
channel in from the Göta river which runs through Gothenburg. This is an
large area with only
industrial estates and industrial stores. We can't think of a better place to
be.
Inside here, so much has been invented and developed in the automotive business
that has affected all
of us. Smokey's place in Daytona Beach is now closed for ever. I felt very sad
to be here again in 2001
when Henry "Smokey" Yunick himself wasn't. He will always be missed
and will always inspire!
www.smokeyyunick.com