What'd They Pay that Bristol Scoreboard Guy?
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Looks cool as a cucumber in that pic doesn't he? Only thing that would have made it better is if he had been burning a smoke and sipping a Falls City.
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Looks cool as a cucumber in that pic doesn't he? Only thing that would have made it better is if he had been burning a smoke and sipping a Falls City.
Race Cars Needed for Shriner BBQ Competition
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Oh SHRINER - I initially mis-read as SHINER. I was all prepared to head that way for some good Texas beer.
August 25 - This day in Petty history
Stock Car Racing History
1967 - Richard Petty wins a 200 lapper at Savannah GA
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-25-this-day-in-petty-history.html
Many of you might recognize the name of the article's writer if you'll look closely at the by-line.
updated by @tmc-chase: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
Riding the Hound to Darlington on Labor Day - September 5, 1966
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Coincidental timing Dave! One of my Matchbox toy vehicles was a Greyhound bus. Try as I might, I cannot recall how I got this one. Unsure if it was given to me or if I bought it with my allowance. I do remember riding The Hound:
- from Nashville to Estill Springs, TN with my grandmother as I went to spend a week with her
- from Greenville SC through Knoxville to Nashville with my sister and brother after we'd spent a week with our cousins
- from Nashville to Jacksonville FL on a Friday overnighter in February 1980. My mother nervously put me on the bus solo so I could go to my first Daytona 500. One of my uncles picked me up at the bus station on Saturday morning, and another one put me on an Eastern Airlines one-way flight to Nashville Monday morning.
August 19 - This day in Petty history
Stock Car Racing History
1979 Champion Spark Plug 400
Michigan International Speedway
Da winnah: Richard Petty
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-19-this-day-in-petty-history.html
The race also marked the debut Michigan event for Kyle Petty.
updated by @tmc-chase: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
August 18 - This day in Petty history
Stock Car Racing History
Today's entry in my year-long blog series about each of Richard Petty's 200 wins goes waaaaay back to 1962 at Bowman-Gray Stadium.
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-18-this-day-in-petty-history.html
Thanks yet again to RR's Jerry Bushmire for supplying the article for this post.
Thanks also to the increasing number of RR members helping me with memories, photos, etc. to add to prior and future entries including:
Billy Briscoe
Randy Gilbert
Brian Hauck
William Horrell
Lynn Hughes
Chris Hussey
Ray Lamm
Tim Leeming
Leon Phillips
Don Smyle
Robbie Solesbee
Ron Willard
Paul Woody
I hope I didn't leave anyone's name out. Keep the info flowing! Contact me here with your Petty-win stories. Send me a message, post on my RR page, or reply here. I'll take 'em however I can get 'em.
updated by @tmc-chase: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
Talladega Trivia
Trivia
Donnie Allison had apparently planned to be the first one on the track as an Alabama driver. Those plans were scuttled when the Dixie 500 was postponed by rain and Allison's Banjo Matthews Ford was impounded along with other cars in Atlanta.
From August 5 Gadsden Times. Click to open larger version in new tab.
updated by @tmc-chase: 08/04/17 11:23:33AM
Boris & The Biff
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As a Petty fan, I was first and foremost elated to see an RPM car in victory lane. I'm so passionate about the number 43, but I really dig Marcos in the 9 - much more so than Kasey Kahne.
So with the Ambrose win, the rest of the post-race stuff was just gravy. Biffle was probably right that Boris erred on that last lap. But Boris was right about how Biff chose to handle the post-race and even the in-race battles (flipping him off and such).
What I liked most was how Boris said it on TV. No sponsors to plug, no Coke or Pepsi or Red Bull in hand, no reference to a inanimate number (i.e. he said Biffle vs 'the 16'), and plenty of unscripted angry yet humorous venting. The other thing I liked was Boris said it RIGHT THERE. He didn't wait to jump on Twitter later to have his say. I enjoy Twitter, but it wears me about how Hamlin, Johnson, Kez, etc. now say things there that they're afraid to say on TV.
And I agree with what's been said here. Its not Boris vs. Biff that's the issue - that's just the sideshow. It was the blunt licks that Hamlin, KuBu, Ragan and Reuty that really need to be examined.
