Nude Demonstrators Rioting to Protest Montreal Grand Prix / Don't Look Cody
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Has anyone spotted Dancia P. in that crowd?
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KURT BUSCH PARKED
Current NASCAR
Not that I am a Kurt Busch fan (as all of you know) but reading where he has been parked for 10 days for what he said in a TV interview and Darling Danica continues without fine, penalty or even a reprimand for wrecking Hornish at Talladega or for verbal tirades which have been picked up during broadcasts. Man, I cannot believe where this sport has gone!
updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
At Dawn This Day - Lest We Forget
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My three grandsons, 15, 13, and 8, along with me, discussed D-Day this morning. Those boys know the history and appreciate what these men did, all men, during WWII. The three boys honor the veterans and have since they were old enough to know what one was. God bless America, and my three grandsons!!!!
Dover Ticket Insurance Policies Should Include Boring Race
Current NASCAR
Boring? Surely they have a word in some other language that can better describe the overall concept of points racing to make the chase (note lack of capitlizaion). Boring is an elusive word when it comes to NASCAR and with the know abilities of insurance companies to find ways out of paying legitimate claims, boring will not work Dave.
The Vanishing Generation
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TMC, you hit it buddy. I am of the age where I remember growing up surrounding by Vets, my father being one. I went to church with two guys who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and listening to what they went through was incredible. I met a man who was in the first wave on D-Day who lost both legs and who told me about lying on the beach for hours before medics got to him. I met a man who was a POW in a Jap prison camp. The stories he told me were unbelieveable but he bore the scars. All of these men, including my Daddy, never talked about these things until they were in their late 60s at least. I never knew my Daddy saved his company on an island in the Pacific until I went to a reunion of his 77th Division in 1987 and the Colonel of the Division was telling me the story. Daddy never mentioned it. After my mother died and we were cleaning out the attic of the old home place, we found a box containing many medals, including the Bronze Star and others I can't recall now. My Neice has all those now. I guess I need to go look them up.
But the point is well made that to understand the present, you MUST remember the past. To build a future, you must have a starting point. NASCAR had that. NASCAR had the starting point which it now chooses to overlook and ignore completely. I still communicate with a ton of race fans, not only those of us here, but many who attend races regularly. From those who go regularly, the word "boring" is so common now that I even know how to spell it. I have heard more and more of these fans saying "that's it, I'm not going back". And these fans are, many at least, in that coveted 18 to 26 demographic NASCAR so prizes. I can't count the number of folks I grew up with in racing who loved it as much as I, who now don't even watch on tv. I truly don't know where the sport is going these days but I'm not alone there. It is a runaway vehicle controlled by those who don't care about anything but the dollar. The heritage of the sport is lost to the sport. With NASCAR using every Hollywood-type device conceiveable, including the 99% nude Danica Patrick, what can we expect? I heard The King say, ina speech to a distinguish group in Columbia a few years ago, that NASCAR is now in the entertainment industry rather than the sporting industry. Well, from the viewpoint of this Legend, it's not even entertaining anymore. When FOX is allowed to have two Waltrips sqeaking their inane comments, it is not entertaining. It is, in fact, disgusting. But I digress. The point here is that we have a wonderful hertiage in the sport and even moreso in the men and women who are still with us who saved us from German and Japan at their worst. I always say I'm so happy to be old enough to have seen the Hudson Hornet on the track right in front of me and old enough to have heard, first hand, the stories of the heroes, every one of them, who gave so much in the World War and many of whom still give so much. God bless them everyone.
HALL OF FAME
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Dave, those two Halls of Fame I mention are probably no more than a 30 minute drive for you. Exit 36 off I-77. Each one has its own ambience that maginfies what we always talk about here. The NC Auto Racing Hall has several very interesting exhibits and all the folks there are race fans and show it. It is a great place to spend some time. As for Memory Lane, just on down the road, Alex Beam and his folks do a wonderful job of having the past exhibited wall-to-wall. Memory Lane is where the RacersReunion Hall of Fame is located and that exhibit, by itself, is worth the admission price. Both of these Halls have very reasonable admission prices. Every race fan should visit these tributes to our sport.
HALL OF FAME
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I thought I would use the Hall of Fame title to attract attention to this article as the mention of HOF usually envokes emotions, pro or con, that surely will get a response.
There will never be a day when I'm even nominated for a Hall of Fame, or any other award applicable to racing. But I reap continuous rewards from my involvement with this site and the opportunities it gives me to meet and talk with race fans. Such was the situation for me last week when I spent some time at the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame in Mooresville. I will not attempt to name all those individuals to whom I owe the thanks for such a wonderful day but I do want to thank the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame for having me.
Mooresville, NC, or Race City USA as it is called, and as Patrick Reynolds likes to state so often on Monday nights is his home, is blessed to have two of the finest historic stock car racing attractions in the country in the North Carolina Motor Sports Hall of Fame and The Memory Lane Museum on down the street. Both of these attractions are off Exit 36 on I-77. I have spent a great deal of time in both and would recommend to anyone that is ever in the area, that you need to take in BOTH attractions. For a race fan, it doesn't get any better.
So, for all of you who read this with the intention of a pro or con statement on the Hall of Fame in downtown Charlotte, save that for later and go visit both The North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame and The Memory Lane Museum.
updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:57PM
Is there a "Magic Bullet" out there?
Stock Car Racing History
BT, That is a well thought out piece and I have to agree that bias ply is a good move. As you said, there is no ONE answer tothe problem. I still watch all the film I can of the 50s, 60s and 70s. If you know where I can find a Super 8 bulb for a project and a regular 8 mm bulb for a projector, I have tons of home movies on those years.