well these days we have the newer generation of Nascar, Big Bill was more old school I would vote for Daytona being the finish too. Danica might even win a race but not the championship. also I would like to see them run two say25 lap heat races, a conslation race to determine the line up then a 200 mile main to determine the grand winner. jus a thought. willie
Tim, I'm glad theres somebody besides me that goes back that far. I wish the cup guys had at least one half mile dirt race in the season. seperate the drivers from the hollywood guys. my three cents,change for the nickle.
I don't think any changes are realy going to matter, the list of characters will will probably wind up the same. their just trying to creat more excitement and I give them credit for that but over all I think the interest has faded somewhat
I think nascar should take a poll from the fans let them come up with ideas then take a vote.
most likely it will still be the same results. I'm always hoping for some good racing so we will see.
I was at the first race at the old Charlotte moto speed way in 1949. befor the race there was a woman who had just had a baby and shenamed the baby after Tim. always rembered that day. my daddy didn't care for all the dust and never went to another race.
glad to see your post, I first kew ervin in the late fiftys. as a teen I built my own car to run the local tracks like Robin Wood and others. I met ervin through friends I met racing, in the first of 1960, I lived with Neil Castles and went racing with him. ervin came around a lot I had acctually met ervin earlier and we became friends. he came by my house one day and I wanted to go see my girlfriend but didn't have any nice clothes to wear so ervin took off his shirt and pants and i put them on and took his new convertable and went to see my girl. boy was I trying to impress her all decked out and driving a new chevy convertable. ervin stayed at the house using the phone to connect with his friends. one night we decided to ride out to the river. had us a bottle of booze. we went down an old road off the beaten path and parked the car. I went down to the river bank and ran accross an old wooden boat. kinda boozed up, I paddeled the boat a little ways out. when I stuck the oar in the water, I found the water was only knee hi. I started yelling that I was sinking and soon here came ervin swimming out to save me. when he got to the boat, I was standing there laughing my butt off. his face was red enpugh to light up the night. we had other mutual friends who had cars and ervin was all ways there to drive. me neil and ervin went to a lot of races together. he drove Neils car at one race I remember. I had to join the Air Force and was gone for ten yrs. coming back yrs later, I caught up with him at Metrolina a couple of times. didn't have many chances after that to get up with him but I still talk to Neil some times and always ask about ervin. only recently learned of his passing, very sorry to hear that. he brought a lot of great memories to a lot of people.
i knew hi pockets well. we had some fun times,a couple you wouldn't believe. he was hanging with me and Neil castles driving neils car once. lots of fun to be around. sorry to hear of his passing. this was back in 1960. he just passed last yr. sry I didn't get to see him in the later yrs.
I helped curtis at Charleston from 1961-1964. i had been with other drivers in 1960 and knew curtis as friends with them, I was getting drafted at the end of 1960 season and joined the Air Force, after basic and tech school got sent to Charleston Afb. looked fish up and found he was just out side the base. started helping him on my time off then rented his little house beside the garage. went to a lot of races with him, drove the old red truck to daytona and some other tracks. helped him with the new 64 merc.when he got it too. fish was a lot of fun, one afternoon as we were on the way to columbia for a night race. a recap came off the truck. we pulled over in the emergency lane and fish got in the race car, drove it off the truck and took off for the track about twenty miles. i limped the old truck on in . know some other fun stories, i left curtis in 65 tho go overseas, i called him a few yrs ago to say hi. sorry to hear of his passing. he was one of the good ones
