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Found this while looking around for info on the Stenhouse Rearend penalty

The cheaters they had in the old days make the cheaters we have now look pathetic.

Smokey Yunick was the king of fuel capacity cheating...when NASCAR announced a maximum fuel tank size, Smokey built a tank with an inflated basketball in it. After he got through tech he let the air out. When NASCAR changed the rules to ban that, he bought a two-inch fire hose, cut off eleven feet of it and crimped ends onto it. Then NASCAR mandated half-inch fuel line but didn't state the maximum length, so Smokey put a 100-foot roll of fuel line into his car. Even Smokey takes a bow to King Richard: when Petty realized the rulebook didn't specify fuel line routing, he "ran his fuel line through the frame rails to protect it." In reality, he put fittings ON the frame and filled the entire frame of his car with gasoline. (He got caught when he made one fewer pit stop than anyone else.) I don't remember which driver it was, but someone in the late 1960s installed an early version of throttle-body fuel injection under his carburetor. NASCAR took his car to tech inspection, confiscated his oversized carburetor and gas tank (which was way oversized), didn't find the fuel injector, and charged him with 36 violations of the rulebook; he started the car WITH THE CARB AND GAS TANK SITTING ON THE BENCH, told them to charge him with a 37th violation, and drove back to his hauler. Ricky Rudd invented the rubber spoiler; it laid flat in the airflow down the backstretch where spoilers slow you down, and popped up when you let off the gas for the turns. (This is why a NASCAR tech inspector to this very day goes out in pit road and puts a weight on the winner's spoiler before he is allowed to turn into Victory Lane.) And Robin Pemberton invented so many new ways to cheat when he was Rusty Wallace's crew chief they finally hired him as competition director of NASCAR to get him to stop. Compared to the great cheaters of the past, you have to admit that getting busted for a spring being mounted a quarter-inch too far back is pretty lame.

Right now, Smokey is looking down upon us going, "he got fined fifty thousand dollars for THAT? What is this world coming to?"