Out of Nascar in 1963, back in in 19??

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MK IISS

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Wrench: No one may know for sure when GM got involved back in NASCAR racing because they were so secretive about it. We know Chevrolet was involved with Smokey Yunick's '66 Chevelle which ran in 9 or 10 races in '66 and a couple in '67 until it was destroyed by Curtis Turner in April at Atlanta. I believe Chevrolet lost interest again until the early 70s.

A competitve Chevrolet didn't appear again until late in the 1971 season when a man named Richard Howard joined with Junior Johnson who built '71 Monte Carlos driven by Charlie Glotzbach. Glotzbach won at least one race and sat on the pole for others. Howard and Johnson ran Monte Carlos again in 1972 driven by Bobby Allison who finished 2nd in points. It's a guess... but 1972 may have been the year Chevrolet got "involved" again.
 
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Fran Preve

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Richard is right, but it is such a shame GM stayed out until 1971, they had a good body style from 1966 on (even legal "full size" Chevelles). Given the same breaks NASCAR gave Ford they could have run with hemi's. But privateers can't beat the factory cars, even "rule stretchers" like Yunick.
 
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