Attention all you Racers reunionERS..........remember Andy Hillenburg and his second annual ARCA event on Sunday April 19th at legendary Rockingham Speedway. Let's help Andy return the "Rock" to its rightful role as a historic and hum-dinger stock...
Remember Hank Schoolfield's "Southern Motor Racing", THE information super-highway of the 1960's? My dad was a suscriber, and our edition arrived in the mail box every other Thursday. It was about as a big a deal as the arrival of the Sears...
Racers-Reunion is sporting a 'new' chat room format.........if you're looking for the 'old' format simply click on the 'up' arrow on the 'chat' tool bar at the bottom of the screen. All your friends in a new setting....... Pretty cool!
Tom Goff, Castle Hayne, NC, passed away 2/20/09, after a brief illness. Tom was a late model competitor at the old Leland (NC) Raceway during the late '60's. Driving his familliar #01 "Bad Iron" Goffco Oil Chevelle, Tom was a frequent and worthy...
When service stations were an American icon. Social, cultrual and financial. In late '50's and into the 1960's, my map-dot hometown boasted FOURTEEN of 'um. A rock could be thrown from one to another. Major brands ruled, too: Esso, Gulf, Sunoco,...
His name sort of had a racing type ring to it.......Mickey STEELE, and if you ever had any experience with coastal Carolina racing: dirt, pavement, stock car, or go-kart, you knew the name............ "Mickey Steele"........ was, and still is,...
"But I couldn't believe itI just had to find out for myself.And I couldn't conceive it'Cause I never would have listened to nobody else.And I couldn't believe it.I just had to find out for myself.There's some things in this world you justcan't...
Dad was building a new dirt late model that summer. Already, he was in pretty deep... buying a WRECKED '57 chevy hard top, but that did include the wrecker bill from the junkyard to our shop...... "That car, the dashboard's all bent-up, the...
I thought I had a good memory......especially where old race cars were concerned. I shoulda remembered that old car! I CAN remember it now, but, now, I'm worried that too many salty Carolina moons may have passed. Oh, I've got a propped-up excuse,...
There was a new store in town, that Christmas, its name was (the) "Western Auto". New stores meant new excitement 'specially those with bicycles and BB guns in the front window. But that new Western Auto store turned out to be just about the...
There's an old spiritual.........."Beula Land".........that begins with the phrase...."I'm kind of home-sick for a country, where I've never been before"..................I'm looking for a race driver, sadly no longer with us, one I never knew,...
In another time, before America's love affair with emergency 9-1-1 (not the terroist attack, the ambulance attack), cell phones, cable TV, CNN, and even the career of Dale Earnhardt, there was a go-Kart track in rural Horry county, South Carolina:...
When I was seven years old, in 1962, I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, more than anything! (Do children ask Santa Claus for bikes, now?) Well, anyway, I wanted a bike, and that Christmas, all the neighborhood kids felt the same. Evidently, we had...
About the time that Steve Wozniak and buddy Steve Jobs were messin' around in the garage with circuit boards and other electrical widgets, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to pursue the same interest. Woz and Jobs ultimately created the "Apple"...
