camaro #4 driven by stick elliott
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David, If you pull up Dawn's pageyou will have to put two names together to pull it up. You will use
Charlotte DawnDaves Licha.
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camaro #4 driven by stick elliott
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David,
Stick's three daughters are on this site.We kinda stay in touch with one of the twins Charlotte Dawn Daves Licha. You knowStick's last name was Daves and not Elliott as mentioned. The other twin is April Daves and both are in Spartanburg. Dawn works in Verizon Wireless at Spartanburg. The other daughter, by his first marriage, is Samantha Chambers from Gaffney. They are all very nice young ladies and are sure they will be happy to send you a copy of the photo you want. If you contact Dawn, tell her we gave you the info.
God bless and we love you,
Billy and Barbara Scott
All Time Greatest Dirt Racers
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A few more names to add to the all-time list Paul "Ghost", Lil Bud Moore, Ralph Earnhardt, Dink Widenhouse,
Charlie Schwartz and Floyd Powell.
YOUR THOUGHTS & PRAYERS ARE NEEDED
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Our prayers certainly include Jim and Peggy!! Will be awaiting updates and thank you for sharing with us. God blee.
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Hi Lisa, how great of you to show up on the site!!!. Have been trying to find outhow all the familyare doing? I had a picture made of your Grand Mom and Grand Dad, with Billy. Have been looking for Joanie for quite sometime now. Guess that is the one you belong to. She used to always send cards to both of us, especially Mother's Day and Father's Day and Christmas and she just stopped, we believe. Then ason of hers we talkedwith,said he would tell her, but he must have forgotten. Be sure and pull up our pictures and articles, may see a lotyou like.
God bless and we love you,
Billy and Barbara Scott
J.D. “Junior” Johnson 1927 - 2011
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Please allow this reprint as this man was deserving of any and all praise!!!
IT'S ALL ABOUT JUNIOR JOHNSON !!!!!
As has been mentioned before, Billy Scott had three track championships in the 1967 season. It was the most laboring and stressing year of his racing career. Two of the championship tracks were at least 250-300 miles from home. The travel was more difficult after working a 10 hour day shift.
He was driver of Marion Cox's car and they were racing three tracks regularly, specifically for the championships. The tracks were Starlite Speedway in Monroe, N.C., Charleston Speedway in Charleston, S.C., and Savannah Speedway in Savannah, Ga.. They were also running Columbia Speedway, in Columbia, S.C. on thursday nights. As is well known, Marion "Preacher" Cox would not begin a race after 12 a.m. on sunday morning.
Savannah was a Saturday night race, but the last race would be on sunday. Billy and Dean Hendley were in a tight battle in points, with this being the last race. Billy, Ralph Earnhardt and Junior Johnson of Florence were discussing the tightness of the points race in Savannah. Marion had already told Billy they would not take the car to race on Sunday. They all knew Billy's chance of winning would be over if he missed that one race.
As they were leaving the track in Columbia, Junior told Billy he should come to Savannah and maybe he would let him drive his car. We left home on sunday morning with Billy's hopes of winning the championship all but gone.
He knew what the points were, as wife Barbara had kept all of the finishing positions from the scorers. Heat races were run as Billy watched from the top of Junior's truck in the pits. Ralph Earnhardt had won the first heat, with Junior Johnson on the outside pole.
As the track steward began lining the cars up on the track to begin the final race, Junior Johnson looked toward the pits and saw Billy on top of his truck. He motioned for Billy to come to the track, with his helmet. Billy moved faster than he did in some of the race cars he drove, to get to Junior. As he reached the car, Junior began to climb out, telling Billy to get in and win that race. Can anyone even imagine, a driver getting out of a car he had put on the outside poll and put a driver in, who had never driven the car? Junior did just that and Billy won the race with Ralph Earnhardt a very, very close second. It was just as if the Lord Himself had gotten involved in the situation. Billy did not want to take any of the winnings but Junior wouldn't hear of it and paid Billy something for driving. All the way home Billy kept saying,"I wish I hadn't took that money".
After the last race, scores were tallied and listed in the Nascar Newsletter that Dean Henley had won the Track Championship for 1967. Barbara did not agree with Nascar and immediately called Daytona and filed a written appeal. She explained in her complaint that Billy had won over Dean by a mere 4 points. Once Daytona checked the points for the year, the Scott's received a letter from the secretary who kept the score sheets and posted them to the drivers. She apologized and said she had been trying for months to get a new adding machine, and thanks to the Scotts' Nascar had bought her one.
It took a roundabout way to get to this point. It's not about the car, it's not about the points, nor is it about a championships; it's all about Junior Johnson who actually gave up a win to help a fellow driver's dreams come true. He could have won the race and got the glory for doing so. Instead, his thoughts were to help another driver from losing what he had raced for all year. More so than ever before, the Scotts' believe the Lord shows the best in people, at a time of need.
Thank you Junior and in our eyes you are the "Famous Junior Johnson!!!!!!
God bless you and we love you,
Billy Scott and Family
He was driver of Marion Cox's car and they were racing three tracks regularly, specifically for the championships. The tracks were Starlite Speedway in Monroe, N.C., Charleston Speedway in Charleston, S.C., and Savannah Speedway in Savannah, Ga.. They were also running Columbia Speedway, in Columbia, S.C. on thursday nights. As is well known, Marion "Preacher" Cox would not begin a race after 12 a.m. on sunday morning.
Savannah was a Saturday night race, but the last race would be on sunday. Billy and Dean Hendley were in a tight battle in points, with this being the last race. Billy, Ralph Earnhardt and Junior Johnson of Florence were discussing the tightness of the points race in Savannah. Marion had already told Billy they would not take the car to race on Sunday. They all knew Billy's chance of winning would be over if he missed that one race.
As they were leaving the track in Columbia, Junior told Billy he should come to Savannah and maybe he would let him drive his car. We left home on sunday morning with Billy's hopes of winning the championship all but gone.
He knew what the points were, as wife Barbara had kept all of the finishing positions from the scorers. Heat races were run as Billy watched from the top of Junior's truck in the pits. Ralph Earnhardt had won the first heat, with Junior Johnson on the outside pole.
As the track steward began lining the cars up on the track to begin the final race, Junior Johnson looked toward the pits and saw Billy on top of his truck. He motioned for Billy to come to the track, with his helmet. Billy moved faster than he did in some of the race cars he drove, to get to Junior. As he reached the car, Junior began to climb out, telling Billy to get in and win that race. Can anyone even imagine, a driver getting out of a car he had put on the outside poll and put a driver in, who had never driven the car? Junior did just that and Billy won the race with Ralph Earnhardt a very, very close second. It was just as if the Lord Himself had gotten involved in the situation. Billy did not want to take any of the winnings but Junior wouldn't hear of it and paid Billy something for driving. All the way home Billy kept saying,"I wish I hadn't took that money".
After the last race, scores were tallied and listed in the Nascar Newsletter that Dean Henley had won the Track Championship for 1967. Barbara did not agree with Nascar and immediately called Daytona and filed a written appeal. She explained in her complaint that Billy had won over Dean by a mere 4 points. Once Daytona checked the points for the year, the Scott's received a letter from the secretary who kept the score sheets and posted them to the drivers. She apologized and said she had been trying for months to get a new adding machine, and thanks to the Scotts' Nascar had bought her one.
It took a roundabout way to get to this point. It's not about the car, it's not about the points, nor is it about a championships; it's all about Junior Johnson who actually gave up a win to help a fellow driver's dreams come true. He could have won the race and got the glory for doing so. Instead, his thoughts were to help another driver from losing what he had raced for all year. More so than ever before, the Scotts' believe the Lord shows the best in people, at a time of need.
Thank you Junior and in our eyes you are the "Famous Junior Johnson!!!!!!
God bless you and we love you,
Billy Scott and Family
J.D. “Junior” Johnson 1927 - 2011
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Reallysorry to hear the sad news!! So thankful Jr. lived long enough to know how much we thought of him, and the kind of person he was, in our blog of May 13, 2010. The blog is still and will contiue to be listed on our page. We are also thankful God sent Jr. our way, so we would always be able to say, "He was our friend and proved it by an act of love".
May the Lord send the comfort the family will needfor the future.
Billy Scott and Family
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Will have to add ourcouple of gripes with NASCAR, Speed, and other program personnelfrom all the TV shows.. While it is quite nerve racking to listen to many of them, the worse of the entire group is by all means, Jimmy Spencer. Believe he was given a job on tv to get him off the tracks, as he was a danger to all. Suppose they thought it better for him to be a " snack break and pit stop" than an accident which may hurt someone. . Maybe some body will come along and put Jimmy and Darrell on the same show,where neither can be seen or heard;as they both try to be funny, but neither have the qualifications. Kenny Wallace any Mike Waltrip are the two actual comical ones, who come to mind right now, but we know there are more. Do any of you have the same feelings about these two, or are we odd balls?.
We like the femalepresents once in a while, but think there are entirely too many, who like most ladies love to be part of racing but don't know enough to take over the programs. The guys can give a much better account of a race in action and even in the pits following an accident,. than the ladies do?
Have enjoyed all of your input on these discussions and learn a lot from them.
Dick Hutcherson
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Hi Hutch, and it's good to have you on RR!!We remember your dad and wasaround him at race tracks for a while, but never made any photos,etc until he helped build and was crew chief on the "Big Chance Special" whichwe were priviledged to drive two years in a row, at Charlotte Motor Speedway for Richard Howard. If you will pull up our pictures and look for the #1 in the World 600, I believe you will see a couple,at least, of your dad. Just in case you aren't sure how to find them, follow these instructions:
1. Go to the top of this page, as you move the cursor over "Photos/Videos/Events" a drop down box
comes down, click "Photos".
2. Scroll down to pictures and in the "Search Box", on the left, type in "Billy Scott"..
This will bring up all of Billy's pictures and you can look for articles and pictures of the # 1 Big Chance Special. You can get copies of anything you may see which you want.Will also look in our scrapbooks to see if thereis more about him. Believe there are more newspaper clippings about him. May take me a while since there are 9 four inch thick books.
God bless and we love you,
Billy and Barbara Scott
A good reason why I'm thankful for Racers Reunion.
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Hii Bumpertag, may we add another reason why manydon't get excited about David's presences .Many times when a driver, withpopularity like David's is in his own hometown, folks
are so used to seeing him everywhere, they don't get excited anymore. Then if Cale Yarborough
or any of the others from that time frame comes into town and is recogized, the people get all excited. We have witnessed this many times.