Nicknames
General
Only to point out the tradition of naming cars will probably never die. One of the Dodge prototype trucks I worked on with Ronnie Denton at Granddaddy Racing was called "windy" because it had spent so much time in the wind tunnel.
The late Dickey Lee Whitehead who was my car chief insisted on naming our cars "Ole Yeller 1 & 2". It stuck. The first car was never named by us...though it was called a name ("f ing 52") I can't post here.
Left to right Dickey Lee Whitehead, Michael (Fastco) Lathrop, Paul Lewis, an ex-wife (mine), yours truly, and Terry (Ironhead) Gillenwater...and of course out in front "Ole Yeller II".