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Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH
Ray Evernham is now a Nextel Cup team owner, but back in the mid-'90s he was a hands-on crew chief for Jeff Gordon's Dupont Chevrolet. "It was when Jeff and I were in our heyday,'' Evernham says.
That's when he started noticing a man dressed in white, with a cowboy hat and boots, watching him from a distance. It was Smokey Yunick, of course. "I'd look up, and Smokey would be watching me. But he would never come over and talk. It was nerve-racking. Like a musician playing a beautiful composition, and he looks out and the composer is sitting in the audience.''
This happened at track after track. Eventually, Evernham ...
Source: HighBeam Research, THE SELLING OF SMOKEY; Best Damned Garage sale in its final phase,...