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One Sunday Morning: The Coupe on the Sidewalk
Saturday November 15 2008, 3:34 PM
Sometimes, you just get lucky. And this was one of times. Right there.........RIGHT there and sittin' on the sidewalk,...............a real-life modified coupe!See, the sidewalk was in front of my dad's old Esso service station. "Glen's Esso...
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The Scapegoat (part IV)
Monday October 20 2008, 11:17 PM
At Darlington's '69 Southern 500, Richard Brickhouse was asked to join a hastily cobbled-together group that were calling themselves the "Professional Drivers Association". It was a new spin on an old issue: the Grand National drivers were not...
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The Scapegoat (part III)
Sunday October 19 2008, 4:00 PM
Dub Clewis, purchased one of the Petty Plymouths in 1968; Richard Brickhouse would be his driver. The fledgling Grand National team painted their new racer bright red, emblazoned it with "03" and "Burnswick Motor Sales", and entered Rockingham's...
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The Scapegoat (part II)
Saturday October 18 2008, 9:00 PM
In 1968 Southport, North Carolina was hardly the focus of the NASCAR world; forty years later, not much has changed. The quaint little town at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, where palm trees naturally grow, has a rich and colorful past, rum...
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The Scapegoat (part I)
Friday October 17 2008, 12:13 PM
Okay, let's go back in the day............................as Rocky and Bullwinkle's, Mr. Peabody, would say..........."set the way-back machine for September 1969, Sherman........................ (remember?)" In classic fashion, Big Bill France,...
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Racing Economics
Monday October 13 2008, 10:47 PM
Racing economics, an oxymoron if there ever was one! Back in the days of 'The King' Richard Petty always maintained that it cost two dollars for ever one dollar that he won, and that his mom 'Miss Elizabeth' (in addition to swinging a loaded...
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Fonty Flock: Talladega?
Wednesday September 17 2008, 1:26 PM
From day one, until the his retirement in the '70's, not much happened in American stock car racing that didn't first go through Big Bill France. However, from "Smokey's BDG in Town" comes an intriguing, and astonishing account of a rare "deal",...
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THAT was 44 years ago!
Monday September 8 2008, 10:13 PM
Here on RacersReunion, y'all may have noticed my three recents blogs, Wilmington, NC: Cape Fear Racers, it's been a trip down memory lane. Some of the content was from memory, and some gained from research; it's pretty amazing where a single phone...
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Wilmington, NC: Cape Fear Racers (part III)
Saturday September 6 2008, 11:19 PM
"Spud Long had led every lap, and he would have WON that race, if he hadn't blown a radiator hose...........!" My dad proclaimed, to me and my mom, at the dinner table. "Spud's even making his living RACING, now!" ........my dad continued.It was...
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Wilmington, NC: Cape Fear Racers (part II)
Thursday September 4 2008, 10:30 PM
"Well, we built the race track, BECAUSE WE WERE RACE FANS!"........ Mrs. Betsy Adkins' simple explanation for why she and her former husband, Buddy Burnette, and his family, had built the Carolina Beach Speedway. "We liked to go to the dirt tracks...
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Wilmington, NC: Cape Fear Racers (part I)
Wednesday September 3 2008, 4:30 PM
Once the capitol of North Carolina, this antebellum city on the banks of the Cape Fear river, could claim, even boast, of a rich stock car racing history. Much documentation surrounds native sons Sonny Jergenson, Roman Gabriel, Michael Jordan, and...
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Fifty Years Ago
Thursday August 28 2008, 11:31 PM
At the ninth annual "Southern 500", a 1957 model Chevy race car was more valuable than its newer 1958 brother. There were real and valid reasons, of course, and none of them were lost among the mechanical wizards of the time. Fireball Roberts...
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The Electronic Media
Saturday August 23 2008, 11:30 AM
Remember when the "Universal Racing Network" and a few minutes of a black and white Chris Economaki/"Wide World of Sports" WAS the electronic media, as far as NASCAR was concerned? AND remember how we thought that was better than sliced bread AND...
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NASCAR: High Tech?...... LOL!
Thursday August 21 2008, 12:03 PM
In the mid 1960's, GM's version of the 1/2 ton pick up truck featured a rear coil spring suspension system. And was it ever the pinnacle of technology: TRUCK ARMS, TWO SPRINGS, AND A PAN HARD BAR! (what will they think of next?.... Not too shabby...
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Sorry.........Banjo
Wednesday August 20 2008, 1:04 PM
the life that you devoted to stock car racing, in general, and NASCAR, in particular, did not gain your membership among 1998's list of the "50 Greatest Drivers of NASCAR". Although you, Edwin "Banjo" Matthews, started on the beach, with Big Bill,...
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