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Dick Trickle Heart Attack Rumor is False

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Please follow this Jerry and keep us posted. Dick is a great guy. He was on Racin' Through History two weeks ago and we had a great time with him. Hope he is ok.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THIS HAS HAPPENED

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The "vortex" didn't work today and with TWO Waltrip mouths in the Hollywood Hotel I am amazed. I heard a little while ago that if it rains tomorrow in Daytona, and I'm told there is a 70% chance, the 500 will go on Easter. That is the last bastion of traditional decency in NASCAR out the window in my opinion.

Challenge Danica's hypers - not her?

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Monte, you may be on the outside looking in, the far outside. Listen to the replay of when Danica brushes the wall early in the race, about lap 7 or so. One of the announcers, not sure but I believe it may have been DJ, explains that trying to watch the water temp gauge could have caused that brush in the wall. Everytime she has wrecked, it has been someone else's fault. She is "caught up" in someone else's mishap. Seems to be a lot of that going around in Daytona for others too, but it's always "poor" Danica who is "caught up". I do hope that she does not have to watch her gauges to closely in the 500 or heaven only knows what a mess we will have. She is good for the sport, is good for NASCAR, is good for FOX, and if D.W. can get over his obsession with Kyle Busch, she may even be good for D.W. Lord knows D.W. needs something he's missing a lot of.

FOR YOU PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE KYLE BUSCH

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William, I will not touch that comment with a 10 foot pole!!!!

Tiny Lund Hard Charger Movie Opening

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Dave, you are, of course, exactly correct. It was the opening of the movie that really appealed to me at the time. Remember seeing all the cars on open haulers leaving the track in the rain? Awesome movie. For the record, my friend Ronnie Sharpe and I, actually went through Ted Turner and had his staff attempt to locate the movie for us. After more than six weeks of looking, we were told that, to the best of Ted Turner's knowledge, a copy of the movie does not exist. I had talked with Wanda Lund about that very thing the first time she and I had some time at one of the events we did together three or four years ago and she told me that she had never been able to find it. I understand that, at one time, Wally Bell told Jeff he had a copy of the movie but we never got anywhere on that avenue. Was a great movie and I have many, many memories of personal interactions with Tiny and Wanda. One note here, my Daddy was very, very proud that he was actually in that movie for a total of about 15 seconds. He loved that!

Most Embarrassing?

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Dave, I am currently working on my top 100 most embarrassing racing moments. I'm currently up to 83. Not sure I'll share any of them here. Everyone who knows me already knows I'm clumbsy, clutzey, and generally off the mark with eveything I do so I don't need to add fuel to that fire.

February 24, 1961: Nearly the end for Petty racing

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1962 was my first trip to Daytona so I wasn't there for the 61 accidents. But, my uncle Bobby, who had gottem me into racing back in 1952 was a huge Lee Petty fan and I remember him constantly trying to find out how Lee was doing. One day, about a week after the wreck, I remember Bobby calling the hospital in Daytona and after several tries he got through. That was before HIPPA rules and the only thing, and I'll never forget this, the person he talked with said Lee was "holding his own". There was little or no racing coverage back then in Columbia, SC, and it was hard to find out things. For Uncle Bobby to have made a long distance call was mind blogging as all of my family believed that long distance calls were far too expensive to make unless it was an extreme emergency. To my Uncle, find out how Lee was doing WAS an extreme emergency. Funny how these days we pick up the phone and call all over the country, or the world, with very little thought at all. My Uncle Bobby epitomized the passion of a true fan in 1961 and still does today although he refuses to tell you who his favorite is. I keep prying him on that but he just smiles! I have to try to imagine how MY life might have been had it not been for the passion for racing my Uncle Bobby has and how he took time to share it with me.

SPECIAL DELIVERY FOR DAVE FULTON

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On the Tuesday night radio show here, Racin' Through History, on the chat line, Dave Fulton contributed a comment about Joe Weatherly winning the Championship in 1961 and 1962. I made an immediate comment that Joe won in 1962 and 1963. It was NOT intended to correct Dave at all but the early 1960s where the decade I was so very fortunate to hang out at so many of the race tracks and I had almost developed a good friendship with Joe Weatherly, although he beat MY guy for the championship in 1963. That's how I remembered that so clearly. That, and the fact that the 1961 Champion is one of our own (RacersReunion) members, as is the 1960 Champion. We, as a group, are very fortunate to have these two gentlemen as a part of RacersReunion.

We are also extremely fortunate to have Dave Fulton as a member here. His contributions to the site have been HUGE. Every post, every comment, every picture, he adds to the site is well worth the time. So, Dave, I apologize for making an issue out of a very simple comment. It was not intended as anything other than an immediate flashback to my teenage years hanging around the tracks, and especially all the fun I had with Joe Weatherly. I sincerely respect and appreciate everything you add.

updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Earnhardt Senior Had a Female Daytona 500 Teammate in 1980

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Thanks, Dave. I really like Janet.

No Bones About It - Daytona is Reaching

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I am rather insulted that I am, along with TMC, the only two folks who ever saw a NASCAR race who are not included in some honorary capacity for the Daytona 500. Sometimes it sucks to be The Legend!!!!!!