Forum Activity For @Dave-Fulton

@dave-fulton
09/19/13 01:46:02PM
9,138 posts

Historic Columbia Speedway and soccer

Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Hope you get to see your grandsons play on that hallowed ground.

@dave-fulton
09/18/13 08:10:18PM
9,138 posts

If the Chase had been in the 1960s

Current NASCAR

Right on! But are you sure that sign didn't say "41" or "42" perhaps??!!

@dave-fulton
09/18/13 08:05:49PM
9,138 posts

September 18, 1965: Capital City 300 at Richmond

Stock Car Racing History

Thanks, Chase.

We (my friends Frank, John and I) visited the pits and walked the black rubber coated Richmond dirt track after this race.

I had movie footage taken of myself sitting in my hero, J.T. Putney's 4th finishing Herman Beam #19 Chevy. My buddy, Frank picked up a dirt screen like the ones seen above on the Petty Enterprises #43 and #55 of Tiny Lund. I guess that dirt screen is somewhere in his Pennsylvania basement with other racing artifacts in his collection.

This was the third win we'd watched for Cotton Owens Garage cars at Richmond in 4 races, including Cotton's "unretirement" win a year earlier in the same race. The string was broken only during the spring race Chrysler boycott when Junior Johnson prevailed in the #27 Holly Farms Ford.

Pearson would come back to sweep both 1966 Richmond races for Cotton Owens, before Richard Petty broke his streak in 1967.

However, it would be Pearson who'd win the final dirt track race at Richmond in March 1968 for Holman-Moody and win the 2nd asphalt race there as well (Richard Petty won the first), again for Holman-Moody in 1969.

After his 1969 Richmond win, Pearson only raced two more times at Richmond. Promoter, Paul Sawyer put him in Junie Donlavey's Ford #90 in 1975 and Pearson ran the Chattanooga Chew entry once in 1984.

All told, Pearson scored 6 wins in 13 Richmond starts... an amazing win percentage over 46%. Add to this two 2nds and a 4th and you have to acknowledge Pearson was a master at the Richmond oval. Petty is the track's winningest driver with 13 victories, but who knows how many Pearson might have scored if he hadn't limited his schedule in his racing prime. He was amazing on the Richmond track.

@dave-fulton
09/18/13 05:46:18PM
9,138 posts

September 18, 1960: Richard wins his 3rd race

Stock Car Racing History

Been there, done that often lately. Wouldn't have mentioned it if I didn't like you!

@dave-fulton
09/18/13 05:19:56PM
9,138 posts

September 18, 1960: Richard wins his 3rd race

Stock Car Racing History

Love your post, but I think the good residents of Hillsborough / Hillsboro would be surprised to wake up and discover they'd been transported to "western" North Carolina! Central or Piedmont would better describe the location near the confluence of today's Interstates 85 and 40.