Seems to me that Julian Petty's daughter was married to Roy Tyner. I can't remember her name now, could be wrong but I helped Roy some in his pits in the mid sixrties and I rememberthere was a connection between Roy and Julian.
I knew Pete Goodman very well, also remember the nameBill Funi but didn't know him. Pete owned the Pontiac powered modified coupe and later ran a Pontiac Late Model Sportsman.
Yep, sure did. Bubba drove for me most of the seventies, Charlie Ford drove a year in the late seventies and then when NASCAR made the Sportsman cars a touring division I sold everything and took a year off. Then in '81 I teamed with Ronnie Staples to run the late models at SoBoand Rougemount until 91 when we finally give it up totally. Working for Worth was probably some of the best years of my life. He was and still is my hero
I was most likely there also, during the seventies I owned the #83 Fidelity National Bank car driven by Bubba Tatum. We ran Friday nights at Southside Speedway in Richmond then would go to Rougemont or South Boston on Saturday night. I remember running those Easter Monday races too. I also remember running Bowman Gray twice on Easter Mondayduring my time behind the wheel back in the sixties as mentioned in another thread. One of those times they ran those little sports cars in with us. That was an experence in itself, those sporty car guys drove the cars to the race track, taped the headlights up then raced them. I was driving one those big old Pontiacs for Worth McMillion, you could heard their little motor screaming but you couldnt see the damn thing.
Hey!!! That was my car!! Bubba drove for me forquite a fewyears
Tommy
I was helping Worth McMillion at this race and I don't recall if NASCAR impounded the cars or not, they may not have been doing that then but anyway a bunch of the guys. Worth included took the race cars to that round brick building outside the race track where they were left until the race was resumed. When we came back on whatever day it was, i think you said it was Tuesday Worth and i and Doug and Bob Cooper and I seem to remember Buddy Arrington was with us but we were the first ones to go in the brick building to get our car out and there were no lights on in the building. That was so long ago that I forget but I guess we found someone that knew how to turn the current on in the building but I remember you couldn't see you hand in front of your face it was so dark in there and we couldn't find the race cars. Funny how after all these years the silly things that you remember.
