Smokey's book



Carbon Press launched Smokey Yunick’s autobiographical history of racing – Best Damn Garage in Town…The World According to Smokey – at the shop where it all began, at a two day event on July 5-6. Over 250 people toured Smokey’s shop, which had been closed to the public for almost 30 years, as part of the festivities. Originally planned as a book launch, the event was changed to be a celebration of Smokey’s life and achievements after he passed away in May after a fierce battle with leukemia.

Smokey’s book has been widely anticipated since he began work on it over four years ago. In the book, Smokey delivers the rich history and incredible stories from the early days of racing as only he can tell them. He wanted to book to be just like the reader was sitting down on the back porch and asking him questions…and that is exactly what he delivered.

Best Damn Garage in Town…The World According to Smokey is currently available in two edition, each containing four sections, totalling 1,128 pages in three bound volumes:

The Collector’s Edition comes with a signed, thumbprinted and numbered certificate that Smokey signed before he passed away. The three volumes are hardbound and stamped with the matching number from the certificate and encased in a gold foil stamped slipcase. The Collector’s Edition is currently selling for $275. The Collector’s Edition is limited to 2,000 copies with over 500 already sold.

The Racer’s Edition is soft bound with a black and gold printed slipcase and sells for $95.

Carbon Press is the publishing company Smokey founded in order to insure his book would be published exactly as he had written it. Carbon Press is headquartered at the “Best Damn Garage in Town” and is currently selling Smokey’s book via the web at www.smokeyyunick.com or via phone at 866.SMOKEY2(766.5392). Carbon Press plans to focus on publishing authors that want their story told without ghostwriters and whitewash.