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Do I hear the Twilight Zone music playing in the background? That's a heck of a coincidence!
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Leon... my wife and I say that all the time about different things... seems like they happened only 3-4 years ago and it turns out it was 20-30 years. When I was a kid waiting seemingly forever for summer vacation to roll around, I could never understand what my parents meant when they talked about time flying. Now I do.
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Billie Jo Spears passed away in 2011 at age 74. Back in 1978 she had a hit song, singing about my first car:
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
Bowman Gray Stadium Video History
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Much has been written and posted about the historic Bowman Gray Stadium - a place where both Bill France, Jr. and Richard Childress peddled peanuts in the grandstands.
If this has been posted before, my apologies. I just found it and really enjoyed it. It's a 9 year old six minute clip narrated by Krista Voda in 2004, with commentary by David Pearson, Bobby Allison and Buddy Baker.
I love Buddy Baker's observation during the video. "You don't have to run 200mph to put on a great show." ARE YOU LISTENING NASCAR ?
Note the opening shot of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. corporate headquarters building on the Winston-Salem skyline.
updated by @dave-fulton: 08/08/18 12:23:03PM
Welcome Member 10,001 - Hokie Girl from Blacksburg, Virginia
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While we've already awarded the kudos and Rockingham Truck tickets to Kristy Mallonee, our 10,000th member, I also want to wish a warm welcome to member #10,001 - "HOKIE GIRL" from Blacksburg, Virginia.
As an alumnus of The University of Virginia in Charlotteville, Virginia, I'd probably have had a seizure if someone (like Hokie Girl) affiliated with the Wahoos' dreaded rival (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg had won our 10,000th member prize.
I note that member 10,001 found our site while looking for information on one of my all-time favorite drivers - the "Ferrum Flash" - Paul Radford of Ferrum, Virginia.
Paul Radford was one of NASCAR's greatest Modified Division and Late Model Sportsman Division drivers. He was one of only two drivers in NASCAR history (the other was Ray Hendrick) to win both halves of a Martinsville doubleheader. For many years I watched Paul race almost every Friday night at Richmond's Southside Speedway. It warms my heart that folks are still out there looking up the guys I idolized.
Welcome aboard, Hokie Girl. Look forward to hearing those "Highty Tighties" soon at Martinsville playing the National Antherm!
Link below to Paul Radford Fans Club at RR for Hokie Girl:
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/group/paulradfordfans
Paul Radford in the famed Clarence's Steak House coach as posted at JalopyJournal by The Bullfather. When you went to Martinsville, you had to eat at Clarence's on U.S. 220. That was a MUST !
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
2 Kyles Finish 1-2 in Bristol's Redneck 300
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I definitely got that one wrong. The Bristol newspaper ran this story below in its Friday edition:
Foxworthy: Speedway is like a 'Redneck Holy Land'
Posted: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:33 pm | Updated: 9:43 pm, Sat Mar 16, 2013.
BY ROGER BROWN | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER |
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Comedian, TV host and budding snack-chip magnate Jeff Foxworthy has delivered literally thousands of his "You might be a redneck if ..." jokes during his career, but the popular personality told a Bristol Motor Speedway crowd Friday that one, in particular, has become his current favorite.
"If your son's name is 'Dale [Earnhardt] Jr.' and your name ain't 'Dale,' you might be a redneck," Foxworthy said, drawing laughs from an adoring speedway crowd during a Friday night appearance on the set of Speed Channel's "Trackside" show.
Foxworthy popped up on the live cable network program shortly before headlining a fundraising dinner for the Bristol chapter of Speedway Children's Charities. The comic also will attend Saturday's debut of the Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 300 Nationwide Series race at BMS, which, in turn, promotes Foxworthy's new line of snack chips.
"They're like a cross between Tostitos and Fritos," Foxworthy said of Grit Chips.
Throughout his 10-minute appearance on the "Trackside" set, Foxworthy shrewdly made sure the product got just as much airtime as he did: When he wasn't munching on a Grit Chip, he was thrusting bags of the snack into the hands of the program's hosts.
Most of the hundreds serving as the show's audience also were attending Friday's Food City Race Night event at Bristol Motor Speedway, and Foxworthy - a Georgia native and longtime NASCAR race fanatic - lavished praise on Bristol Motor Speedway and its fans.
Foxworthy said he ranked BMS' famed half-mile facility, along with the Daytona International Speedway, as one of NASCAR's landmark sites.
"This is like a Redneck Holy Land," Foxworthy said of the speedway, drawing more laughs from the crowd and "Trackside" crew.
Foxworthy also praised the work of Bristol's Speedway Children's Charities, which is the fundraising arm of Bristol Motor Speedway and has raised more than $7 million for children's agencies across Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee over the past 15 years.
"I think it's awesome what they do," Foxworthy said of the Bristol charity, adding that he quickly accepted the 's invititation to headline the fundraising dinner.
"Anytime they need me to do something like [Friday's dinner], I'm all in," he said.