Is That Bud Moore / Earnhardt Car a Ford or a Pontiac? Are You Sure?
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Is That Bud Moore / Earnhardt Car a Ford or a Pontiac? Are You Sure?
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Thanks, I enjoyed your post, I think the "insider" and behind the scenes type of posts are the most interesting. This is one of the '83 Victory Lane photos, the scan didn't come out very good but you can see more of the car in it. I probably have ten to twelve different photos, both black and white and color ofvictory lane that day. I think the other shot was from the same day but sometimes things run together any more in my old mind. 
Long Ago Racing Oil
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When I first started riding my bicyle to the junk yard to help with a drag car I remember him running D-A Speedsport oil. When we started running dirt we used Vavoline, then Kendall GT-1 and later some Amalie Pro all in 20-50. Of course if it was free we would run it.
I always ran Ford (6000 when it was available) in my street cars because I thought if it had Ford on it, it had to be good. Later my father in law ran a Texaco station so I ran Havoline and had great luck with it, he later switched to Union 76 so I changed over to (black/white can I think) 76 racing oil.
WONDER WHAT NASCAR IS UP TO CONFISCATING THIS ITEM
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What you got against the Roush bunch. Hendrick has done more to ruin NASCAR than Roush has had a chance to do!!!! Ford> Chevy< and I don't care who's driving except Jeff Gordon who left a great group to go with Hendrick.
By the way, I'm glad Smoke showed some emotion, some folks still care if they win or lose.
Buck Simmons
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Cody, I think you are right, the race in question was done earlier when Buck and Jody raced to see who would drive the #90 Truxmore car at Atlanta and Jody won. Jody started 19th and finished 5th in Junie Donlavey's 1971 Mercury. He later drove several times for Junie before going full time with him.
Buck was driving on dirt for Jimmy's Speedshop in Columbus, GA when he went with the Kenny Childress car for awhile. Childress couldn't seen to find a driver he wanted to stay with long enough to to give them a chance.
I have a photo or two of Jody and Buck racing side by side atsome NASCAR races if I can put my finger on them.
I'm not trying to take anything away from Buck, he was a great driver in anything he sat in. If he had been given a chance he could have made it in NASCAR. Both he and Jody tried to get in too late in their careers. If they had made the move earlier like Bobby Allison they could have made their marks on the series.
Buck Simmons
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Buck Simmons in the Kenny Childress'sBlack Diamond Coal#12 Grand National Car at Talladega, 1980:
Buck and I , same Talladega race:
Jimmy Mosteller: 1926-2012
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Jimmy was a fixture at the tracks around Atlanta and surly will be missed by the racing world.
I had the pleasure of being around him when I was track photographer for Micky Swims Tri-Racing tracks, Dixie, Rome and West Atlanta.
Rest in peace Jimmy, and as he would end his anouncements for the evening, Have-A-Tampa Nugget Cigar".
Johnny Rutherford-Smokey Yunick
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That # 13 was a very fast car, after Junior Johnson blew his Chevy in the '63 Atlanta 500, A.J. Foyt led the next 56 laps before going out with "transmission problems", I think he also blew but it sounded better to say transmission than to have all the new engines blowing up. My old mind had Rutherford in the car there until I rechecked a source or two. Being a Ford man I was gladto seeFred Lorenzen win but sure thought those fast Chevys were going to run off with it in the beginning. That was my first NASCAR race, well actually my first race of any kind, to see in person.
Georgia Man is the Daytona Race Track Thief, but Drag Fans Beat Him to a Pulp at Gainesville!
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Yep, I remember they got Cale's wallet with an unlimited American Express card in it and a lot of other stuff.
Georgia Man is the Daytona Race Track Thief, but Drag Fans Beat Him to a Pulp at Gainesville!
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You got to watch those Georgia folks, woops I'm from GA!!
Glad they caught him, there is no place for folks like that in our sport. We've always left our stuff unlocked and the trailer doors open while we raced.