Legendtorial for May 19, 2015
Highway Mile Markers
On a hot July afternoon in 1958, three guys, Dale, Red and Richard, left Level Cross, North Carolina towing a 1957 Oldsmobile convertible to a half-mile dirt track in Columbia, South Carolina....
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Legendtorial for May 12, 2015
Perhaps some of you will remember when the "Members Only" windbreaker type jackets were popular with the younger set back in the late 80s. Those jackets came in many different colors and were the...
Legendtorial for May 5, 2015
Wordy? Not This Time, Jeff
Our fearless leader, Jeff Gilder, has often mentioned the fact that I am "wordy". In other words, I am known to talk too much, and that is probably true. If I had a penny for every time I...
Legendtorial for April 28, 2015
Buttons
I am probably the least technically minded person involved with this website, or, for that matter, anywhere in the racing world. My understanding of computers and technical instruments barely exceeds...
Legendtorial for April 14, 2015
Profit and Loss
Anyone who operates their own business is well aware of the "profit and loss" term. When I took bookkeeping in school (and by the way, did you know bookkeeping is the only word in the English...
Legendtorial for April 7, 2015
One More Time
It's Sunday night. At least it is when I am writing this although it will be Tuesday night when you hear it and, perhaps, even later when you read it. Easter has been a beautiful day in Columbia,...
Legendtorial for March 31, 2015
Chicken Wars
I'm sure I'm not the only one who detests the television commercials we have to endure to watch any program. I really thought FOX was the worst with their constant interruptions of racing action to...
Legendtorial for March 24, 2015
Raindrops on Roses
The year of 1965 was the year NASCAR, Big Bill France in particular, decided that the Plymouths and Dodges would not be allowed to run the 426 Cubic Inch Hemi because, flatly stated, the Hemi...
Legendtorial for March 17, 2015
Philosophically Speaking
In some of the reading I have done lately, I came across a quote from Aristotle that touched a chord in me. Aristotle, as most of you know, was a Greek philosopher, scientist, and...
Maybe I should have entitled this Legendtorial something like "Come On Perry, Lois and Jimmy, really?” I am referring to the early 1950s television show "Superman" starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel,” a visitor from another planet who...
Legendtorial for March 3, 2015
Comedy or Drama?
I'm sure most of you have seen the "masks for theater" as they have allegedly been around since the days of early Greek Theater. You know what I mean, the mask with the smile and the mask with the...
Legendtorial for February 24, 2015
North Bound I-95, Daytona in the Mirrors
Like most race fans, I am one that anticipates the Speed weeks in Daytona with excitement and a bit of trepidation for the safety of the drivers. I also wait, at the end...
Legendtorial for February 17, 2015
Ol' Mel Was Right
Back in the mid eighties, I think it was, Mel Tillis, you know, the sssstudering ccccountry music star, had a song out entitled "It's a Long, Long Way to Daytona". The tune was catchy and the...
Legendtorial for February 10, 2015
An Open Letter to D.W.
This past week, right after the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., I began to receive e-mails from folks who know of my history with D.W. a/k/a "Jaws". Several of those...
Legendtorial for February 3, 2015
If not Stock Car Racing, Then What
It is early on Sunday morning, February 1, 2015, and I'm fighting what is apparently just enough of a cold to be aggravating. Guess I'll miss church and stay in today and get...
