Weyman Milam, early pioneer

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Weyman Milam was one of the early organizers of racing in the south. He was one of the originators of theNational Stock Car Racing Association. He was involved with Indy car racing as well, having an entry in one of the Indy races in the 30's, he carried a photo of the car in his wallet. Brandon Reed has some good information on his life on the Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association web site as well as his own Georgia Racing History.com web site so I won't duplicate it here. I had the pleasure of meeting him at West Atlanta and Dixie Speedways. He was involved with the promotion of the last two races held at the famed Lakewood Speedway's one mile dirt track.

updated by @robert-turner: 04/01/17 03:46:00PM

Not the way to start your racing weekend.

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"I thoughtYOU strapped it down"

Racing Ladies - Where did they go?

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Here are some other lovely ladies of NASCAR: Where are they now?

Racing Ladies - Where did they go?

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After reading the discussion "Where did she go" about the Sprint girl I thought I might start one on some of the ladies where were represented the verious sponcers and tracks over the years.

The King and Queen and lady in waiting of NASCAR:

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Two to Tango? Or maybe more

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I think a good set of spears about a foot long on each end of the car would make for better racing. Run up to bump someone and a spear goes throught your radiator.

As for bodys, I think they should have to run stock sheet metal, move the piller as needed to open the front window areas as needed and go back to a 4" spoiler on the rear and a similar "dive plane" on the frontlike the seventies and eithties.

Where are they today??

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Something like these:

Where are they today??

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Yes it is Atlanta, I remember friends of mine who would volunteer to pit someone just to get the experience. It would probably amaze those involved today to find out how many pick up crews were used back then.

Where are they today??

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First let me say thatI can't answer my own question on a lot of these people that I post photo of, it has been a long time and some of them were only faces I saw at the tracks and never got to really know. I am hoping that by posting these photos that some of them will be identified and receive the recognition they deserve for being there "back in the day" as my kids say.

Not everybody had fancy uniforms or even full time pit crews:

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Last time I saw Bango Grimm was in the Garage area at one of the Cup tracks. He was working for someone else after not making and/or not getting to make the move with Mark to Roush. I had a good ride with him and Mark back in the ASA days. Cube van, open trailer and white T-bird. We had a press lunchion in Atlanta for the first World Crown 300 at Georgia International Speedway and I rode back to the track with them. It was kind of interesting, Bango drove, Mark layed in the sleeper and I rode copilot. We talked about what they did when they were out of town racing and had some time off. Bango said that he liked to go to the mall and walk around window shopping and looking at the "people".

I'll tell the story about the "Grand Marque" car that we carried to the press conference. We were having a bunch of local news celebrities having a mock race with some of the ASA grand marque cars to build up media interest and to help promote the new series ASA was proposing. The one that was to be brought to the press conference had a flat tire so, Gary Balough's crew was bringing it down by the way, they filled it with the only thing available, acetylene. I happened to remember that just before the race began and ran to ask them if it had been changed and thankfully it had. There were a couple of the media folks that thought they were race car drivers and gased it comming out of turn four, spinning and taking down two photographers, Bob Applegate and Earl Garretson (sp), luckly they weren't baddly hurt.

This isthe grand marque cars lined up for the start: I have a good photo somewhere of a single grand marque car but I will have to hunt it.

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I found this on the internet:

Weisenberg Plane Crash Kills Race Driver Al Loquasto, Friend