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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts

I'm sure some of you folks, maybe Legend, have a copy of this, but I'd never heard/seen it before and thought I'd share. The original poster on YouTube said he purchased it in the lateseventies at the Joe Weatherly Stock Car Museum, Darlington. Enjoy:




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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
Tim Leeming
@tim-leeming
13 years ago
3,119 posts
Dave, I have NOT, in fact, seen this or heard the song before. Surprising to me as I used to hang out in the Darlington Joe Weatherly Museum several times a year as it's only an hour from me. On rainy winter Sundays I would ride over and spend time there.I think it was like a buck to get in then. Last time I was there a couple years ago it was up to $8.00, I think and when I foolishly paid that to see the same things I had seen for years, I found the place was very poorly kept. There was dust, nay, actual dirt, in many places on the floor and on the exhibits. So unlike it used to be when the two very sweet older ladies worked in there. The lady on duty the day I was there was a Marine Drill Instructor at Parris Island before they kicked her out for meaness to the Marine Recruits. Haven't been back since and I really miss those little spur of the moment trips.


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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
When my buddy, Frank & I made our first Labor Day trek to Darlington via Greyhound bus in 1966, a highlight was the pre-race when all the cars from the museum were paraded down the frontstretch. I never saw that done again and am not sure when it stopped.I thought I would die when I finally got to see that #3 Ray Fox/Junior Johnson 1963 "Mystery" Chevy that I had read so much about. The museum was closed on Labor Day and I didn't make it inside the first time until 1971. More than all the cars, the one thing that really took my breath away was the simple display of Joe Weatherly's black & white saddle oxford driving shoes. That always stuck with me. In 1989, I was privileged to have the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame accept a pair of Dave Marcis' black wing tip driving shoes during a presentation in the Darlington Press Box just prior to the Southern 500 to be displayed in the museum.


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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts

PK, the Alabama Richard Petty tribute is nice, with the beat very reflective of the retiring hero, versus the driving beat of the 70s song, performed when the King was a threat to win every race. I got my first glimpse of the King at Richmond on the dirt in March 1964. He'd just won his first Daytona 500 race the week before in that new "Hemi" Plymouth. I wasn't quite sure what a "Hemi" was, but I knew I'd get to see Richard, the Daytona 500 winner, driving one the very next week. As it turned out, it was a Cotton Owens "Hemi" in David Pearson's Dodge that won at Richmond, but I was hooked on racing and hooked on the King. I remember being struck by Richard's erect, up on the wheel driving style. What a contrast years later when I worked with Dale Earnhardt to watch Earnhardt literally lay down with his head hung out the window. I remember Doug Richert saying that Earnhardt didn't need a windshield or rearview mirror because he always had his head hung out the window. Doug used to tell Dale he was gonna mount a sideview mirror for him. I still don't think I've ever seen another driver sit up in the seat quite like Richard. Even in a blurred black & white silhouette, you could always tell it was Richard because of that erect carriage in the driver's seat. Only one King.

Richard - 1964 - enroute to his first Daytona 500 win, erect in the seat & up on the wheel.

Photo from FloridaStockCars.com

Earnhardt, hanging head out window in Richard Childress' 1981 Pontiac




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Robin L. Agner
@robin-l-agner
13 years ago
169 posts
Don't forget the image of Richard with the white towel clinched between his teeth.
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts

You can see the towel clinched between his teeth duringRichard's infamous Rebel 400 crash in 1970 that led to window nets in NASCAR.




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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
Had to laugh thinking about 8 Tracks, PKL. When we married in 1973, I had a brand new 1973 Monte Carlo with just an AM/FM (heck, AM was still king, then), but Joyce had a brand new Lincoln Continental Mark IV with an 8-Track, so we took it on trips, etc. Unfortunately the "gas crisis" occurred about that time with the 55 mph Interstate speed limits and gas rationing., so we didn't drive that big ole gas guzzling Lincoln a whole lot. Joyce had one of those big Maxnavox furniture style stereos and they came out with an 8 Track player that could be installed. I bought one, but didn't realize howtough cutting through plastic could be for someone who didn't know what they were doing (me). It sounded great installed, even if it did look a little crooked. I can still remember cruising down U.S. 301 in Wilson, NC driving the Mark IV with Kris Kristofferson bellowing, "Why Me Lord?" on the 8-track. Those were the days, just didn't know it.


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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts

PKL, look at Item #4 on this Used 8-Tracks for sale List:

http://musicalenergi.com/8track.asp?Title=D&SortBy=Title




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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
I know several of us expressed an interest in the film, "Tiny Lund, Hard Charger" which no longer seems to exist.


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Richard Guido
@richard-guido
13 years ago
238 posts
I visited the musuem this August and the facility was in good order. It was clean and the lady working there was very nice. Any hardcore NASCAR fan should check it out.
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts



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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts

And now, The Legend has the answer for the question of why Darrell Waltrip went into tv announcing instead of singing. God bless Digger, lol.




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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
That's what I get for being a "newcomer," I guess. No intent to poach. Let's just enjoy again.


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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
Yeah, we used to enjoy Buddy Baker singing "Butter Beans." I remember going with my wife to see the Statler Brothers in Raleigh in 1973 at Dorton Arena on the NC State Fairgrounds (next to the track that held the last NASCAR dirt Cup race). An unknown Barbara Mandrell opened for the Statlers, and then another artist, whose name escapes me (not Little Jimmie Dickens), sang "Butter Beans" - we loved it. Freddie Fender was also on the show prior to the Statlers. Eveytime we heard Buddy Baker sing "Butter Beans", we thought of that great show in Raleigh in 1973.


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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"