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This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

In December 1982, I purchased a Polaroid camera for approximately $80 at a (now defunct) Service Merchandise Catalog Showroom Store (both it and its similarly formatted competitor, Best Products - one time Dean Combs sponsor -out of Richmond are both now out of business) in Greensboro, North Carolina. When I opened the Polaroid box, there was a coupon inside for a free accompanied round trip flight anywhere in Delta's system. So, in June 1983, my wife, Joyce flew with me to Riverside's Budweiser 400. Should have gone back for some more cameras! That's us standing at a Riverside Winston Cup garage fence:

This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

Joe Weatherly's grave marker at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia is made in the shape of the Riverside course where he lost his life in January, 1964:

This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

Got a court injunction to prevent Hardee's from running a striped chevron on their car like they showed up with at 1981 Winston 500 at Talladega. It was a direct copy of our trademarked Wrangler paint design, just different color combo. T. Wayne Robertson of Winston refused to let the Hardee's show car appear in the Talladega pre-race parade when we squealed about the copycat design.

Photos from a 2011 Jay Coker post.

I spent a lot of time in 1981 over other teams trying to copy our trademarked Wrangler paint design.

This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

Chase... The King, Cale and Dale all wore modified cowboy hats. Think this hat wouild have been appropriate for "Flash" at the 1980 National 500?

This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

Yessir... I've told before on these pages how I took a $10,000 check to the August 1981 Michigan race made out to Mr. J.D. Stacy to "compensate" him for taking the striped chevron off his fleet of cars. Osterlund.

I also carried a $10,000 check in my Wrangler jeans hip pocket the final 11 races of 1981 made out to Richard Childress. If Earnhardt made the field in first round qualifying, Childress got the check. If Earnhardt didn't make the field in first round qualifying, Childress collected ZERO dollars from Wrangler for that race. He collected all 11 checks.

Great photo!

This day in history: November 22, 1981 Riverside International Raceway

Stock Car Racing History

If Dale's battle with the Awesome One at Charlotte was the "Pass in the Grass" - then, I guess, this could be the "Bust in the Dust!"

Earnhardt's "new" car owner, Richard Childress qualified a second Junior Johnson Buick for Waltrip championship insurance and ran 5 laps before retiring.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A GOAT WITH RUBY

General

Got that goat all diapered up like one of those Charleston carriage ride horses!

I think the goat was envious of the one with the vette ride:

November 22, 1962 - Jim Paschal Tastes The Turkey

Stock Car Racing History

Exactly half of the cars driven to a top-10 in this event represent the three nameplates in the race no longer manufactured - Plymouth - Pontiac - Mercury.

This would be the only career Grand National start for John Hoffman. His car owner, Dave Kent, would field a car 4 times in 1964 for our RR member, Bill McPeek's friend, Jack Anderson.

Racing History Minute - November 22, 1970

Stock Car Racing History

Tim, you are oh so right about all of us of a certain age being able to describe exactly where we were and what we were doing 50 years ago on November 22, 1963.

The Langley Field Grand National didn't determine the season's points champion, but the 3rd place qualifying run by Bill Dennis didn't hurt his "Rookie of the Year" chances. Although he drove this event and the fall Rockingham and Charlotte races in Junie Donlavey's car, all of his other starts except one (Cecil Gordon) were in his own car #54 Chevy. NASCAR would ultimately award the prize to Dennis.

The Associated Press story in the November 25, 1970 Reading Eagle recapping Dennis' perks as top Rookie shows that Air Lift was still heavily involved in NASCAR in 1970:

A Day Late But........November 20th, 1983 - Bill Elliott Racing History - Western Winston 500

Stock Car Racing History

This was the box score I saw on the Ultimate Racing History site prompting my guess:

Georgia 150

ARCA Stock Car race
Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA
March 16, 1985
99 laps on 1.522 mile paved oval; 150.678 miles

Fin St Driver # Owner Car Laps Money Status Laps Led
1 5 Kirk Bryant 12 Darrell Bryant 1985 Pontiac Grand Prix 99 5,200 running 31
2 Lee Raymond 1 1985 Buick Regal 99 running 0
3 David Simko 51 1985 Buick Regal 99 running 0
4 Bob Brevak 34 1983 Pontiac Grand Prix 99 running 0
5 Philip Duffie 94 1984 Buick Regal 99 running 0
6 Bill Venturini 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 98 0
7 Davey Allison 23 1981 Pontiac LeMans 98 0
8 Don Marmor 1985 Pontiac Grand Prix 98 0
9 Walt Bohland 1984 Ford Thunderbird 97 0
10 Bill Ingram Buick Regal 96 0
11 Bosco Lowe 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 96 0
12 John McFadden 45 1984 Buick Regal 96 0
13 Gary Weinbroer 1984 Buick Regal 95 0
14 Scott Stovall 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 93 0
15 Ken Ragan 77 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 93 0
16 Rich Hampton Pontiac 91 0
17 Jim Ingalls Chevrolet 87 0
18 Bob Schacht Pontiac 86 0
19 Glenn Sears 61 1981 Pontiac LeMans 85 engine 61
20 Joey Sonntag Chevrolet 75 0
21 Michael Waltrip Buick 51 0
22 Burgess White Chevrolet 49 0
23 Stuart Lyndon Ford 42 0
24 Mark Gibson 90 Pontiac 35 0
25 Dennis DeVea Buick 33 0
26 Howard Rose Buick 28 0
27 Bob Dotter 83 Pontiac 17 0
28 Rick Wilson Chevrolet 10 7
29 Billie Harvey 31 Chevrolet 9 0
30 Bob Penrod 95 Chevrolet 7 0
31 David Sosebee 81 Pontiac 7 0
32 K.C. Spurlock 18 Chevrolet 7 0
33 Bobby Jacks 71 Oldsmobile 7 0
34 Dale Singleton 96 Buick 7 0
35 Joe Booher Buick 6 0
36 Danny Kelley Pontiac 6 0

Time of race: 01:15:46
Average Speed: 119.323 MPH
Pole Speed: 32.763 seconds
4 cautions for 22 laps