Christmas morning of '98 was all warm and fuzzy enough, especially since Santa had brought me two tickets to the following October's Winston Cup race at (then) Charlotte Motor Speedway. The wife and I had attended the Charlotte autumn event in...
As Yogi Berra once said "it's de-ja-vu' all over again....." coupe racing is so old, it's brand new. Vintage racing: the new rage. Just google 'um.........there's vintage racing clubs, groups, unions, federations and confederations galore. And in...
Coastal Carolina short track pioneer "Mutt" Powell lost his battle with health issues, and died Tuesday August 11, 2009. Mutt's racing career spanned the golden era of the 1950's to the '70's, from the Carolina bull rings to Daytona's high banks....
Funny how quickly 37 years can pass, as John Cougar Mellencamp once sang........."18 has turned 55........I'm surprised we're still living........." (or something like that). This past June, as I sat on the starting grid at Hammerdown Speedway,...
For those not steeped in southern wisdom, not having a "pot (latrine, loo etc. specifically to collect a bodily fluid, urine, but commonly known by a three letter word, beginning with "P")" or a "window (as part of a dwelling) to THROW it out" is...
Unbelievable! Thats what it was, the Al Street Pirate Club made a mega-discovery. There was this elderly couple in my neighborhood, back in the 1960's. Like a lot of old-time home-places, their yard was real interesting. Junked cars, an old shed...
NASCAR hand-wringers...........your ship has come in!! Faced with collapsing TV numbers and the equally critical BIS (butts in seats) numbers, the NASCAR think tank appears on the precipise of summit-sized mega step that will forever save the...
So, what's the real truth behind the Jeremy Mayfield and NASCAR, and will we ever know? Mayfield's been labled as a loose cannon and has no problem vebalizing a hot topic. Anyone remember the Mayfield-Ray Evenham debacle? Mayfield was the first to...
Is it just me, or does vintage 'racing' seem poised for growth? At the moment (obviously) such events must utilize a 'host' track. Is it a pipe dream to envision a vintage organization, club, association, etc. who's function not only promotes the...
4th of July and every thought turns to THE beach. It just wouldn't be right if ya didn't go to the red-neck riviera, and blow up some M-80's. So.........every next thought turns to "Willard's Fireworks"............one of those super-iconic Myrtle...
Fellow racers-reunion member, Tony Powell, reports that his dad, legendary Carolina short track specialist, "Mutt" Powell's health is declining and the family would appreciate the prayerful support of the racing community. Mutt's carreer began on...
Long-time NASCAR fans are all to familliar with this mantra, the holiest grail of NASCAR marketing. But, was it a clever drum that NASCAR was beating? Too be sure, there was a time, when Ford was making '63 fast-back Galaxies, when racing and...
Way back when the world was teetering on the brink of cyber extinction, via the awful Y-TWO-KAY (Y2K for techies) conflagaration, the internet was just beginning to 'saturate' the american household, including my own. After hunting and pecking for...
Buffett fans don't despair..........I a'int infringing on JB's territory.............Most are familliar with South Carolina's famous Grand Strand.......ahh,the Redneck Riviera........... THE beach if you are from anywhere in the Palmetto state,...
A wise man once said........"when you leave home with a race car, there a'int no tellin' what you'll get into before you get back ............." Ahhh, truer words were never more eloquently spoken. "Half the fun wuz gettin' there........."...
