Cale's Riverside Romp in 1974
Stock Car Racing History
Enjoyed your writeup, Chase at the Bench Racing blog link.
It's always upsets me that Joe Weatherly's name was taken off the museum at Darlington after ISC purchased the operation. Revealing to read of the Pearson/Wood Bros. car being taken out.
I flew out to Riverside from Greensboro, NC, Dallas, TX and Greenville-Spartanburg, SC. Depending on what flights I could get, sometimes I flew into Los Angeles (LAX) and sometimes into the small Ontario, CA airport. To get to Riverside from the Ontario airport, you had to pass by the remains of the Ontario Speedway main grandstand. That was always a heart breaker. Now, of course, Riverside, too, has gone the way of Ontario and Fontana can't draw flies for its races.
After one Riverside race a couple of us went to the Ontario airport on Monday morning to turn in our rental car for our flight back to the east coast. Before we turned in the car, we talked ourself into changing our flight, kept the rental car and drove the Pacific Coast Highway from L.A. to San Francisco. Ate some crab meat and sour dough bread chased with a long neck at Fisherman's Wharf, then caught a late night flight out of San Francisco International. What we did in our 30s my body would never tolerate in my 60s, lol!
