i have a question that some one here can answer im sure

After looking at the latest photos that have been posted I have a really dedicated question to ask of someone here.

Now Im not trying to start anything --B U T-- why dont you see any photos of todays current drivers and their family that presents itself like those of Roy and Veronica! Look at them,they show more than just the two of them,the background is full of great info of what was going on that day. And there is no "do I have to do this look" on their faces either.

THese photos were took back when we really had a hell of a good sport. Today its all for the money. Roy sure as heck didnt get any monetary gain out of his P/R work for his fledgling team. Todays team has to be spit and polished before any exposure can be allotted them.

Bet you couldnt get any of todays teams to even relate to a photo like that of Roy and Wendall standing out by all that treasure.

Now here is Veronica,look at her back then,If you have read the story about Roy you will understand. Better yet if you knew him all the better.

WHY ARE THOSE PHOTOS SO FULL OF LIFE AND RACING HISTORY?? Come on critics crank it up .---------------------------------------------------Memories

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

I remember my buddy and I really following all those independent Chevy drivers like Roy Mayne, Wayne Smith, Stick Elliott, but especially JT Putney, our Grand National hero (Ray Hendrick was our weekly track hero). When we got down in the pits on the old Richmond 1/2-mile dirt track after Junior Johnson's 1965 spring win we thouight we'd died and gone to heaven. Chrysler was boycotting and JT posted a 3rd place finish that day in his '65 Chevy driving for Herman Beam in that Richmond 250. Everybody down on pit road was nice to us. I was wearing my homemade "JT Putney #19" sweatshirt. I'm sure the late JT didn't know what to make of that sweatshirt, but the smile on my face when he let me sit in that car before it was loaded and posed with me was worth a million dollars to me. My buddy was shooting 8mm movie film and in the background were so many other drivers and cars and crews, but JT was leaning in the window of his car talking to me. We never stopped pulling for him. Somewhere in my buddy's artifacts are the dirt screen we picked up and carried home after we were allowed to walk the track after the race. Quite a find for we two boys. We shot lots of dirt track 8mm GN movie film and later lots of super 8 at Richmond, Bristol, Martinsville, Darlington, Charlotte, Beltsville. In 1998 I was talked into loaning all of my 8mm and super 8 movie film to Bud Lindemann's (of Car & Track Productions) son to be used in a NASCAR documentary for their 50th anniversary. His facility burned and I lost all of the film (none backed up) I had shot from 1964-1974. But back to your original observation, Johnny... it wouldn't have mattered who the driver was, it was the fact they were cheerful and willing to indulge a teenage boy's fantasies with no expectations as you so eloquently pointed out. It used to be real easy to become a race fan.


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i like your reply real old school stuff like that is priceless something the modern day fan can only wish for

Johnny. You, in essence, answered your own question in the last ALL CAPS statement in your post. Back then, in racing history, it was all full of life. Remember the times we had? It wasn't about money, it was about competing and making what we didn't know then were lifetime memories. Things were real then. These days I sometimes wonder how much of what we see and hear is actually real. I have been to Disney Studios enough to know you can use special effects and other enhancements to make anything seem real. The MEMORIES we have, Johnny, and most of us here, can not be replicated or replaced. While I hope I am helping my grandsons make wonderful memories, it seems that other than the trip to the 600 this year, their racing memories will be limited.


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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.

why not gve them something really interesting --how about making them members of Racers Reunion--then they can really enjoy the past along with the rest of us and as a side note keep up with the comings and goings of modern day NASCAR

Johnny, it is my hope that one they the three of those grandsons will be members here. Their Mom is a member and I think what they do is go on under her membership and look around because they know things going on here. They may not be ready to personally come on board at 14, 12, and 7. Their father keeps them so into soccer and other stick and ball sports (except the youngest is into karate) that they have no time for such things.

One interesting note about the race cars is that when they were little boys and would come into The Lair, they wanted to play with the race cars. So I put all the ones they could play with on the lower two shelves and told them they could play with those but they would have to put them back. One day when Sam was 4 (he is now almost 13) I came out here and he had everyone he could reach in the floor playing with them. He told me "Pop, I'm really careful with them". And,. you know, he was. All those cars are still here. Oh, and Sam talked me out of three of my 1/24 die cast over the years because I just couldn't say no. And Michael, the youngest, talked me out of one of my "Mr. The King" Superbirds because of the Cars movie. So, the racing is there and I'm sure it will always be in them to an extent. But, as PattyKay has said, or I think it was PattyKay, the young folks now, with the exception of Cody and some others I have encountered, just don't have time for the racing of today. Seeing some of it recently, I can understand why.

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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.