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Up in smoke: Smokey Yunick's garage burns

Legendary NASCAR mechanic Smokey Yunick closed the "Best Damn Garage In Town" long before he died in 2001. But the main concrete-block, tin-roofed building on Beach Street in Daytona Beach, Fla., remained a stop on the NASCAR history trail for visiting faithful until Monday night, when fire destroyed the building. The building housed Yunick's office and a medium-size garage and more recently served as office space for Carbon Press, the publishing company that Yunick's daughter, Trish, operates and which produces products that include Yunick's salty 1,100-page autobiography and biographies of other racing personalities.

GM puts Girsky in charge of Europe operations

General Motors has put vice chairman Steve Girsky in charge of its troubled European operations, replacing Karl-Friedrich Stracke. GM said that Stracke will handle special assignments from chairman Dan Akerson. GM said Girsky will serve as "acting head" of its European operations while it searches for a replacement executive.

College Exhibition: Strate College Degree Show 2004

Sep 20, 2004 - Graduating Transportation Design students at France's Strate Coll?ge displayed their Diploma projects in the school's annual degree show, held at the central Paris school in June. Go to Photo Gallery 220 photos Strate Coll?ge is one of the leading European schools for transportation design, and has become a major source of recruitment for automotive design studios in France as well as internationally. Graduating diploma student Thibaut Doneux presented 'Skin Deep', an interior concept for Renault.