Grabbed What? DeLana Harvick Gives "Smoke" New Nickname
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maybe smoke should try this with one of his drivers - ol sue patrick - might give her some luck !!!
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HAVE YOU DRIVEN A DODGE LATELY?? BRAD DID
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i think the roof was chopped - windshield laid back - the front end had a downward slope - was this car called the yellow banana - by the way somebody i cant remember who tried sliding the jack across the hood in the nineties - i cant remember the team .
HAVE YOU DRIVEN A DODGE LATELY?? BRAD DID
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i miss junior johnson - wouldnt it be great to have him back racing in his prime .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
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thats it - ive got one of those shirts - ive never seen a picture of one - dave you are awesome - thank you .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
Stock Car Racing History
is lou larosa still building engines or involved in racing - last time i was around him i think he said something about owning car washes - it was forever ago - would have loved to hear him talk - i would love hear him talk about the osterlund days - dale wore that ugly yellow uniform with the blue stripe and yellow helmet - dale had some t-shirts that had- damn im good - printed on them they were yellow also - just ugly - i still have one of those shirts .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
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im pretty sure thats dale behind the sonny 01 car - i think a guy named hargett owned the car - this may have been the race i was at - if it was ray hendrick won it with sam and sonny in second and third - sonny may have been second - cant remember - what i do remember were the hotdogs - great hotdogs and racing .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
Stock Car Racing History
doug and bob cooper were from gastonia - i had a friend that lived just a few houses down from them - bob had a shop behind his house - doug was nascar rookie of the year in 1964 i think - they were a pretty rough bunch if you messed with them - carolina speedway used to run on sunday afternoon and the late model feature would end about dusk - the race was just getting started good and doug got a little out of shape off turn four - the top five cars were all nose to tale pushing each other - anyway stick clipped him and he spun - at carolina there was dirt bank inside on the front straight and dougs car went up the bank and barrel rolled about four or five times - no window net and his arm came out - broke his arm in three places - stick said he didnt do it on purpose it was a racing accident - after the race which stick won - bob was furious and wanted to fight - stick stayed in his car and just loaded up - bob wanted to get a gun but sticks wife or girlfriend allready had one on bob - there was bad blood over that incident for a long time - it ended dougs driving career - he was just never the same - a few years later again at carolina speedway bob and charlie blanton got into it wrecked in turn one - bob went after charlie who crawled on top of his car - he then jumped off and hit bobs son in the head with his helmet - bob grabbed charlie and they had to be broken up - it was wild at the carolina speedway .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
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dave this sonny hutchins stuff is amazing - i keep reading it over and over - you are an incredible source of knowledge - i only saw sonny drive one time in a late model race at martinsville 01 car - it was a ray hendrick runaway with sonny running third behind sam ard - or the other way around it was a long time ago - i was standing next to junior johnson one time when sonnys name came up - junior called him a dirty driving sob - i wish i could have caught more of him racing - dale never mentioned him to me - i heard stories of him and i know he made all the dirty driver lists - seems he was quite a character and driver - stick may have picked up some of his tricks from sonny - they raced nascar about the same time - from what i know stick sold his farm and belongings to go nascar racing in the sixties - with bolton they were suppose to be part of the under the table chevrolet factory effort - they wound up under financed and under powered - most of the time the cars were not competitive or couldnt take his demands - he did have some good runs - second at greenville and seventh at the southern 500 darlington - out of 93 races they only finished 35 - but out of the thirty five there were three top fives and fifteen top tens - stick could drive but most of the timedidnt have good equipment - i saw him put it on ned jarret and dick hutcherson at hickory only to blow an engine while leading - anyone who was at that race wont forget it - they had to red flag the race for the smoke - ive never seen a car smoke like that - parts on the track and lots of oil - when he came back to the dirt scene it was complete domination - in three years he won 106 races in boltons 55 chevy - he won lots of races in o.l.nixons #57 chevelles and camaros - over 400 feature main events - i guess you could say he was the sonny hutchins of our area - he could spinout someone and make it look easy - i saw him spin bothralph and dale in the same heat race - dale was young then but he would watch stick drive then talk to him - dale would allways say he has the best car control and he did - stick also had a comical side and was good with a sly comment - ever see dale say something slythen half grin and give that smirk - but anomosity came when ralph hired stick to drive for him - dale wanted so bad to drive ralphs cars - but it never happened - dale growed up hard - i asked him once who was the toughest driver he raced and he said cale yarborough - he may have meant nascar only i dont know - stick raced everybody hard - but dont take my word for it - ask mike duvall , freddy smith , billy scott , chuck piazza - he ended doug cooper career at carolina speedway doug was never the same - billy scott at metrolina broken collarbone - carl smart at concord - more than once toy bolton had to pull the tow truck to the back stretch to load up - tracks would put a bounty on him after three in a row - at that time he had the respect of ralph earnhardt and the awe of a young dale earnhardt - the big stick - john moose called him the king of the last lap .
Dale Earnhardt & Sonny Hutchins - For DAVID EARNHARDT
Stock Car Racing History
dave - i got to ask you - did you ever see curtis turner drive on dirt or asphalt - i never did - if you did i would appreciate your thoughts .
The "Lost" Wendell Scott Video Interviews by Ned Jarrett
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someone who really had the fever for racing - he had his whole heart in it - i think ned said it best - the good lord took care of him - thanks dave for posting this .