Do not mess with this & # 039; Nuclear Carrot & # 039; Corvette

Do not mess with this & # 039; Nuclear Carrot & # 039; Corvette https://i1.wp.com/www.eresviral.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/No-te-metas-con-esta-amp-039-Nuclear-Carrot-amp-039-Corbeta.jpg?fit=219%2C146&ssl=1

Do not mess with this & # 039; Nuclear Carrot & # 039; Corvette





Do not mess with this & # 039; Nuclear Carrot & # 039; Corvette











        




          Jeni Yeakel-Swanson, real estate attorney in San Diego, with her 1964 Chevrolet Corvette car. Mrs. Yeakel-Swanson's father owns the car, but she is the main driver and competes in classic races.



                            Photo:
David Walter Banks for the Wall Street Journal






 Jeni Yeakel-Swanson, a real estate attorney in San Diego, in her 1964 Chevrolet Corvette "Nuclear Carrot" race car, she told A.J. Baime 

When I was growing up, my dad, Fred Yeakel, ran in a 1957 Corvette. I went racing with him, and when I was old enough, I said, "Dad, I want to drive!" He said: "First you have to learn to work in the car."



He taught me everything about how that 1957 Corvette worked and, finally, I started driving on a racetrack. I said, "There's no horsepower in this car." He said: "You do not need horsepower to drive well, learn to drive well, then we will add horsepower." That is exactly what we did.











Photos: A Corvette, Restored to His Glory Previous

This Chevrolet Corvette, nicknamed "Nuclear Carrot", was restored with old photos, and now it seems that it did in the 1960s.





The 1964 Chevrolet Corvette was carried out by Jeni Yeakel-Swanson. The car has been restored to look like it did when it was originally run in the mid-west in the 1960s.

David Walter Banks for the Wall Street Journal



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In 2007, he found the car shown here in an advertisement in Vintage Motorsport magazine. It was painted red and the owner had it stored outside of Milwaukee. When we bought it, it came with documentation about its history. An Illinois-based driver bought the vehicle (it was a recovery from theft) and built it like a race car in the 1960s. A part of the front was missing, so he used parts he got from a scrap yard. 

Using old photos, my dad returned the car to what it had been in the sixties. He was driving a Bill Thomas Cheetah race car at the time, and I like to think he bought the Corvette for me. I have been the main driver and my name is painted on the car next to the original sponsor of the 1960s: Tero Corvette from Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

We started running along the west coast, from San Diego to Portland, Oregon. We dragged our cars together, we had our wells side by side and, sometimes, we even competed against each other. On the way, a friend of the family, the late Mike Scott, gave this car his nickname: Nuclear Carrot.

Last year, under the supervision of my father, I rebuilt the 327 V8. I disarmed it and put it back together with new rods, pistons, the works. 

Our next race will be at Sonoma Raceway, in the spring. To prepare the car, I will drive from San Diego on Saturdays to Anaheim, where the car resides. Sometimes my husband, my daughter and my best friend, Leslie Verfaillie, will come and my dad will be there. I love running and I love working in this car, but what I love most is doing those things with my family.

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