Attention Billy & Barbara Scott:
"Barbara & Billy, This is the direct link to the YouTube video of the 1981 television show we made at Wrangler Jeans titled "Dale Earnhardt - One Tough Customer." Hope it will work ok for you. Dave Fulton"
St.Petersburg Evening Independent:
And, as reported in the October 5, 1982 Florence (AL) Times Daily:
As Sports Editor, Luther Guillard wrote in the August 5, 1981 Spartanburg Herald-Journal:
The television film was the least of our Wrangler worries. Stacy told Wrangler he didn't care if he had a sponsor or not. Earnhardt was totally blindsided by Rod Osterlund's sale and hated Stacy. New GM, "Boobie" Harrington told the media that racing didn't need them to be successful. And poor Dale Inman had just come to work for Osterlund in March. It was a TOTAL disaster. We renumbered the car as soon as we went to Childress with Earnhardt and the Wrangler sponsorship from #2 to #3 following Talladega.
All of our Wrangler promo materials were burned.
I have the vaguest recollection of that, but would have never remembered if you hadn't brought it up. I was there, but have no memory of what the car looked like.
I had completely forgotten that we ran 3 Winston Cup points races at Riverside in 1981 - January, June and November. Three more than today. Miss that place.
Thank you, my friend. That makes at least two wives I'm in trouble with, if you count my own!
Jeff, I expect when your nickname is "No Neck" you have to find a way to compensate for your shortness!
Curiosity question - Around the 7:31 mark of the video, is that by any chance our RR member Harlow Reynolds shaking Neil Bonnett's hand as he climbs out after his World 600 pole run in the Wood Brothers #21 Purolator Ford?
I really loved the retro STP ball cap Richard Petty wore at the charity softball game in Greensboro. That game benefited the Grand National Racing Wives Auxiliary for their medical fund. EVERYBODY showed up to raise money - not like these days where you have to beg and plead with racing folks to all show up.
I'll always remember the home run Dale Inman's wife, Mary hit that afternoon in Greensboro. She knocked the cover off the ball. I don't believe she'd have had any trouble at all breaking into the 1981 Yankees' lineup!
