Racing History Minute - June 9, 1966
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The June 6, 1966 Hendersonville (NC) Times-News carried this United Press International preview:
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Racing History Minute - June 9, 1966
Stock Car Racing History
Thanks, Tim.
Tiger Tom kept putting that '64 Ford on the pole with those twin 4bbls during the 1966 Ford boycott.
Torch is Passed - Young Burton & Elliott Both Post Weekend Wins
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Jeb Burton and Chase Elliott have made their dads Ward & Bill extremely proud this weekend and have some of us feeling a little long in the tooth!
Jeb won the Friday night NASCAR Truck race in Texas and Chase claimed the Saturday afternoon ARCA race at Pocono.
Congrats to the up and coming younger generation!
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
Racing History Minute - June 8, 1952
Stock Car Racing History
Made me think of the MARC Times Racing News - which once sponsored a winning Plymouth Superbird at Riverside in 1970 driven by you know who (it was blue with a #43.)
Walter Elliott, who wrote for Chris Economaki and sold NSSNs trackside all over the country chronicled the passing of MARC Times' founder in 2009:
MARC Times Racing News Founder Beebe Dies
Date: 3/1/2009
By Walter Elliott
BELMONT, Mich. -- Those who want to remember MARC Times Racing News co- founder Dick Beebe, who died of a massive heart attack here Feb. 22, may send donations to widow Kathie Beebe, 4839 Pettis, Belmont, MI 49306. The proceeds, in lieu of flowers, are to defray medical bills.
Beebe, a fixture on the Michigan racing scene, founded MARC Times Racing News in 1965 with first wife Pat. Declining health and the economy prompted Beebe, 76, to fold the paper in 2008.
Beebe's main job was Beebe Signs painting and lettering - although he said his first job was lettering race cars at Galesburg Speedway when he was 14.
Beebe's racing resume includes driving, flagging, pit steward, track preparation, announcing, promotion and concession sales. He founded the American Racing Congress - that set track safety standards across the country - in 1970 and was its first president.
Dick Beebe was born Jan. 26, 1933 in Kalamazoo to Alberta Isabel Wormeth and Paul James Beebe, Sr. Dick credited his father - a former motorcycle rider in the 1920s and 30s - in becoming a parts gopher and to letter cars.
Paul Beebe built Galesburg Speedway as a one-quarter-mile clay oval in 1948. The young Beebe became NASCAR's probably youngest official later that year.
"National Racing Directory" editor and publisher Allan Brown said that Beebe had helped build The Grand Rapids Speedrome quarter-mile plus Harlingen, Macallen, Pharr and San Benito speedways in Texas. Beebe's driving resume included several automobile divisions plus motorcycles, karts and snowmobiles.
Dick and Paul Beebe were inducted into the Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1985, followed by his late wife Pat in 1998 and son-in-law journalist Jeff Bloom in 2000.
MARC Times Racing News, an associate sponsor of Richard Petty's 1970
Plymouth Superbird factory effort on the then-NASCAR Grand National circuit , received several journalism awards and had donated funds to families of injured or deceased drivers. Sons Rick, Tim, and Ted also became NASCAR flaggers.
Beebe's post-cremation memorial service was held Feb. 26 at the Bangor Church of Christ.
Stepmother Maxine Mills, brothers Paul Jr. and Jay, sister Susan Belkoski, children Cathy VanReenan, Linda Bloom, 18 grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren are also among his survivors.
Racing History Minute - June 8, 1952
Stock Car Racing History
And 23 years later on this date, all the way across the country on a road course, a fellow well known to Tim and Chase would claim victory in a race sponsored by one of the lesser known suds (it wasn't Tide!)
That event, of course, has been thoroughly chronicled by TMC Chase in his outstanding Bench Racing Series:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/06/june-8-this-day-in-petty-h...
Racing History Minute - June 8, 1952
Stock Car Racing History
Those step down Hudsons just looked powerful.
Happy Birthday today to my "baby" daughter, Stacey - age 35. She was the one who told Dale Earnhardt at Bristol when she was three in August 1981 that she liked Richard Petty best and he answered "So does Dale, Jr!"
Time flies when you're having fun. That's Stacey on the right in 1981 at age three with my wife, Joyce and her older sister, Gwyn.
R.I.P. Alfred J. "Booby" Lane Sr., 87, of Hudgins,Virginia, formerly of Richmond,Va.,passed away May 30, 2013.
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Thoughts and prayers to Mr. Lane's family and friends.
NASCAR Themed National Doughnut Day
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Now I an licking my lips... the lemon filled are also the favorite at this house!
NASCAR Themed National Doughnut Day
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Well sign me up for the Krispy Kreme bus. Used to be a very convenient KK going from Port Orange to the Daytona Speedway in the mornings. Made a many a stop there!
