Drivng With The Devil, or, The Legend's introduction to audio books
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Must of pegged you as a "foreign" goat, having resided in New York, Ohio, etc!!!
Must of pegged you as a "foreign" goat, having resided in New York, Ohio, etc!!!
I guess Legend wants to give me some tips on doing the Shuffle!
I have been telling you folks that Legend fellow was a closet Jaws guy!!!
Thanks for the preliminary report.
Thanks for the update on Bud, Perry.
Did y'all see that roostertail of dirt Little Joe was throwing up in turns 3-4 when he went out of the groove sideways to pass Richard Petty in the #41 and Junior Johnson in the #3? Amazing!!! My loss that I never saw him race in person. I was two months too late.
I shared the Thomas Warren / Woody Delbridge film find from the 1963 Richmond 250 with my longtime friend (since kindergarten) Frank in Pennsylvania. I started going to the races in 1964, but this very race was Frank's first ever. Got this reply back from Pa.
Incredible. My first-ever race, the one that made me a fan for life
with lots of drama and side-by-side racing, especially between Weatherly and Johnson.
The other day I was looking at the 1963 Daytona 500 - the Wide World
of Sports version on YouTube, and that was fantastic, too. At first I
thought watching drivers roll up their windows as they left the pits
would be what would shock more recent fans most, but then I realized
that pit road had a ton of standing water in it - an especially big
puddle as you came off turn 4 - because of earlier rain, I guess. One
driver pits in it - the crew apparently not having thought of sweeping
it away.
What I wish I had a photo of from Richmond is the '65 or probably '66
race when Stick Elliott had to take his car somewhere away from the
track (nearby garage or a fairgrounds building, I guess) for work, and
then had to drive it back inside, waiting in line with the rest of the
spectator cars coming in and looking for parking.
Tell Jeff Gordon to do that.
Perry, please let us know what comments / memories Bud & Greg have when they see this film.
Our sincere thanks to Thomas Warren for alerting you to this historic 8mm film, Woody.
I note a discrepancy between the results posted at Racing Reference and the Associated Press report of this Richmond race as carried in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal on April 8, 1963. The AP report states that Fireball Roberts' #22 was NOT a Holman-Moody entry.