He Also Retired in 1992, With 200 Fewer Wins Than The King

I was just re-reading the excellent article newly posted on the Home Page by Bobby Williamson titled One Sunday Morning: The Coupe on the Sidewalk .

Bobby's article is a hard copy of an earlier blog he read Tuesday night on the "Racing Through History" radio show Ghost Track segment and it is outstanding. Please go read it.

The main subject of Bobby's article revolves around the old modified coupe #37 driven by Butch Torrie out of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia and owned by the father of our RR member Jack Carter.

That same car used to race in Richmond at the old Strawberry Hill 1/2-mile dirt track. In 1990, when the NASCAR modifieds returned to Richmond International Raceway, promoter Paul Sawyer honored all the drivers who ever competed on the dirt at Richmond in the annual 50s-60s Virginia State Fair NASCAR National Championship Modified races by inducting them into the "Strawberry Hill Mod Squad." Butch Torrie was one of the inductees.

I searched the Google newspaper archives to see if I could find coverage, but did not.

However, the search led me to an outstanding 1992 Tom Higgins story about the pending retirement of NASCAR's Dick Beaty who won motorcycle races at Strawberry Hill.

Here is a link to that really great 1992 Tom Higgins piece in the archives:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tupOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sBQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5382,5632443&dq=dick+beaty+strawberry+hill&hl=en

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updated by @dave-fulton: 03/10/17 06:42:06PM

These racers are the real heros and back bone of the racing that we all grew to enjoy. Without the weekend warriors that worked a job all week to feed the family and take what was left and spend it on the race car, racing would not be where it is today. The menthat lived the racing life and never made it to the so called big time were the hardest working folks in America. Many thanks to all of you.

One of the all time great sites I would see as a kid was not just at the race track, it was passing the service stations and body shops with a race car parked out front. Now that was a great site in towns and communities all over the country.