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Dave Fulton
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10/11/13 10:10:03AM
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Racing History Minute - October 11, 1953


Stock Car Racing History

Note that Donald Thomas finished 3 positions ahead of his brother, Herb in a car also owned by Herb.

Dave Fulton
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10/11/13 10:05:03AM
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October 11, 1959 - Lee Petty Wins Weaverville


Stock Car Racing History

Sure wish I had seen some of those battles.

Dave Fulton
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10/11/13 09:56:37AM
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William Rynd R/R member had an accident


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for William Rynd. Hope he can eat birthday cake using his "good" shoulder!

Dave Fulton
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10/10/13 05:05:08PM
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Football Returning to Bristol Motor Speedway Infield???


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Back in the late summer of 1961, the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins met in an NFL exhibition game in the infield of the new Bristol Raceway. Eagles players reviewed it as the worst field they ever played on.

Now rumors are running rampant that the Hokies of Virginia Tech will meet the Vols of the University of Tennessee in a college match up. History does tend to repeat itself.

Virginia Tech, Tennessee to play at Bristol Motor Speedway

The Associated Press 3:38 a.m. EDT October 10, 2013

An event that has been a fantasy of football fans in southwest Virginia and east Tennessee for decades appears close to becoming reality.

A person with knowledge of the plans tells The Associated Press that Tennessee and Virginia Tech will play a football game at Bristol Motor Speedway in September 2016.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement is still in the works.

FOOTBALL AND FOOTPEDALS: How a game at Bristol might look

The speedway, which seats 150,000, is located 125 highway miles southwest of Blacksburg, Va., and 111 highway miles northeast of Knoxville. The city housing the facility is split by the Tennessee-Virginia state line.

The Bristol Motor Speedway Commission announced plans for a news conference Monday for what it called a major announcement, but gave no details.

"I can just tell you I'm going to be in Bristol on Monday from about 11 to 1," Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver said in a telephone interview Wednesday night. He said football coach Frank Beamer would be there as well.

"I think it has the chance to be a really nice event," Weaver said, adding that the idea has been in the works for "three or four months."

The attendance record for college football is 115,109, set last month at Michigan Stadium for the Michigan-Notre Dame game.

There once had been talk that Bristol could be domed for college football, but there are no indications that is happening in this case.

A Tennessee spokesman says the school could not comment. Virginia Tech did not respond to an email from USA TODAY Sports.


updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
Dave Fulton
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10/10/13 06:45:28PM
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Racing History Minute - October 10, 1971


Stock Car Racing History

Richard Howard, right, with Junior Johnson.

Dave Fulton
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10/10/13 06:26:52PM
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Racing History Minute - October 10, 1971


Stock Car Racing History

In these excerpts from the October 7, 1971 Sumter (SC) Daily Item , you can see the appreciation of RR member, Dargan Watts for the promotional ability of Richard Howard , owner of that #3 Junior Johnson/Charlie Glotzbach Chevy Monte Carlo and the head honcho of Charlotte Motor Speedway who saved the place after Bruton Smith skipped town:

Dave Fulton
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10/10/13 05:46:56PM
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Racing History Minute - October 10, 1971


Stock Car Racing History


I didn't recall that 35th place finisher and noted modified chassis builder Maynard Troyer had ever driven in Cup, but I see he had 13 Cup starts in 1971 and 1 in 1973.

EMPA photo

My memory is not so good.

I'm amazed I'd forgotten his series of flips at Daytona in February 1971:

Maynard Troyer
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Troyer

Born in Spencerport, New York, but raised in rural Plains City, Ohio, Maynard Troyer (November 22, 1938) bought a 1949 Ford for $50 in 1958 and made it into a race car. Then, as unlikely as it may seem, he not only won his first-ever race with that very simple machine but he went on to become one of the top asphalt Modified stock-car racers of all time and to design and build some of the most cutting-edge dirt and asphalt Modifieds.

Troyers winning purse on that first night of racing was equal to the cost of his race car, so right away he broke even in the sport, which cannot be said by very many. At that time a carpenter by trade, he ran in a few more races before relocating to Florida and then returned north to Rochester, New York, in 1963 for employment reasons without a thought about racing.

But with the half-mile asphalt Spencer Speedway being close-by in Williamstown, New York, Troyer got himself a Late Model and by the end of the 1960s he was winning plenty of races in the red-orange No. 6 Modified Falcons and Pintos sponsored by Nagle Ford where he was in charge of the dealerships new-car preparations.

Now fully into asphalt Modified racing, Troyer was one of the big stars of the 1970s that also saw such luminaries as fellow EMPA Hall of Fame members Richie Evans, Jerry Cook, Geoffrey Bodine, Ray Hendrick, Ed Flemke Sr. and Bugsy Stevens headlining the roster for every major race. But Troyer was more than able to hold his own against such stiff competition as he won such major events as the 1976 Race of Champions at the 1.5-mile asphalt Trenton (N.J.) Speedway and the events 1977 edition on the 2.5-mile asphalt triangle at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. Among his major short-track victories were three-straight (1977-1979) Spring Sizzlers at the half-mile Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

Troyer also won the August 21, 1977, Atlantic Coast 300-mile NASCAR Modified race at the one-mile Dover (Delaware) International Speedway in his No. 60 Nagle Ford Mustang. And then on September 19, 1977, he backed that victory up with a 150-lap triumph on the old half-mile Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.

In 1971 and 1973, Troyer ran in 14 NASCAR Cup Series races with his best finish fourth on August 15, 1971, in the No. 60 Nagle 1969 Mercury and an eighth place finish in the 1981 Late Model Sportsman 300 in the No. 38 Pontiac at the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway.

However, the part of Troyers major NASCAR career that might best be remembered is the spectacular flip that he took on the 10th lap of the 1971 Daytona 500 his first Cup Series race when he lost control of his bright red-orange No. 60 1969 Ford in the second turn and it hit the flat part of the track sideways at full speed. With that, Troyer was just along for the ride as his car barrel-rolled at least a dozen times with some counts making it 18! But, amazingly, he only suffered a concussion in the wreck and was soon racing again.

In 1977, Troyer quit his job at Nagel Ford and began building race cars for others as a result of this request being so frequently made to him. This was the start of Troyer Incorporated and it soon began building Troyer Race Cars which quickly became some of the most sought-after and thought-provoking asphalt and dirt-track Modifieds in competition.

But even though Troyer was building race-cars for others, he continued racing until he retired from driving after the 1982 Race of Champions at Pocono. It was also around this time that he founded Troyer Machine, which made high-quality specialized racing parts.

After several more years of working at his Troyer Race Cars shop, Maynard Troyer finally began to slow down as in 1989 former asphalt Modified driver Billy Colton became a co-owner and managing partner of the company and then Colton became its sole owner in 2000.

Dave Fulton
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10/11/13 01:16:16PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE FULTON!!!!


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Counting on it! Thanks, Tommie.

Dave Fulton
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10/11/13 09:55:09AM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE FULTON!!!!


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Thanks again folks, for the birthday wishes. I have learned from some of you that I am still just a "youngun!"

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