don't turn your back on Joe Weatherly
william ellis williams
Saturday February 8 2014, 12:00 PM

At Darlington little Joe brought a box of those little cracker ball firecracker to the garage area and scattered them all over the garage floor, all morning you could hear a loud bank, a thump, noise made when a mechanics head hit the bottom of his race car when his creeper mashed one of those crackerball firecrackers and cursing that would make any sailor proud.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton   10 years ago
Paul Sawyer used to always talk about Joe scaring newcomers with the "Mongoose in a Box" trick.
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton   10 years ago
Here's a Paul Goldsmith quote about Joe in the book NASCAR Confidential :