during the 60s when both firestone and Goodyear furnished tires, there were times that the Firestone crew would throw a few of their tires on the Goodyear truck and just ride with them to the next dirt track race, very few used Firestones, I think Fireball,Buck Baker and a couple of others. I heard they got a n extra bonus.
I still have visions of Wendell Scott coming out of his modified at The old fairgrounds track befor the race when somebody put a smoke bomb on his motor. when they gave the start engines smoke boiled out of the front of the car and wendell hit the ground running.
Thanks, William. Interesting information from the days of yore when things were so different.I about broke a rib laughing at the mental picture of the smoke bomb in Wendell's car.
another night at the fairgrounds Charlotte track befor the grand national, as the race time was getting close, some of the guys put Tiger Tom pistone in the back of the Goodyear truck and locked it. as they got ready to start they let him out and as he was heading for his car, somebody came up behind him and pulled his strech band pants down to his knees in front of the grandstand. he was picked on a lot