Hopefully Glenn will stick around for a piece of his birthday cake, unlike Dick Passwater. The folks here in Daytona made a surprise birthday cake for Dick two weeks ago as part of the July event.
For those who don't know, Dick will be turning 90 himself on 7-25-2015.
There is exceptional wisdom being expressed here.
You all make very good arguments. And the storm is STILL going on with the maturity level of the trolls descending to pretty much nil. And the problem with this website is that pretty much every single race has these issues... sometimes worse. The modern races are annihilated with hundreds or thousands of comments by idiots talking about stuff irrelevant to race or, worse, forums just like filled with profanity laced arguments because the trolls are obsessed with trolling.
You want racing stats? You're better off at the Third Turn or Wikipedia.
I saw this "trending" on the Racing-Reference webpage: http://racing-reference.info/comments?jp=0&id=2002-04&s=W&drvid=&blogid=&trkid=&ccid=&ownid=&p=Y#18
Check out comment #11 and look at the total insanity that happens when someone calls him out on it. In short, somebody makes a lewd comment, and the person made out to look like the villain is NOT the lewd commenter, but rather the people who say he's wrong and other people come out in armies to defend a profane comment!
What is wrong with this world?!
The irony. Florida Tech is the school I just graduated from this past May! I even was a math major (double in addition to meteorology) for 2 years before dropping it.
David Clutterham's book is actually his Ph.D. thesis, and that's actually a paper on shock waves, not automotive shocks. According to the obituary you posted, he lived in Texas at the time of the '57 Soldier Field race and in my town during the '58 Milwaukee race.
I was thinking maybe the Mr. Robert E. Clutterham mentioned here: https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&englishSubcountryName=Illinois&query=%2Bgivenname%3Abob~%20%2Bsurname%3Aclutterham~%20%2Brecord_country%3A%22United%20States%22%20%2Brecord_subcountry%3A%22United%20States%2CIllinois%22
My mother and I were talking this morning about the old Soldier Field races, particularly how the 1957 Convertible race there how a strange field with such names as Allen Swenson, George Lay, Mr. Clutteham, Clyde Swick, and K. Winkler, amongst others, making their only NASCAR appearances. I tried to search for info about this on Google, supposing that maybe the drivers were part of Andy Granatelli's gang of clowns who raced in that era. I found nothing on this.
I next turned my attentions to the finishing order, noting that Glenn Wood, Possum Jones, and Tom Pistone were confirmed living drivers from this race. As for the others, who knows if they were even real, particularly Mr. Clutteham who has a made up last name! The other known names, like Larry Frank and Bob Welborn, are deceased.
Seeing this, I commented to my mother that I would have to one day have the opportunity to speak to Glenn, Possum, or the Tiger about this whilst they're still living. I wondered silently to myself about Possum. Since even Florida transplants, like Dave Dion, Jack Anderson, Joe Mihalic, and Curtis Crider (RIP), made themselves a fixture at Living Legends of Auto Racing events, why hasn't Possum. I set out to discover Possum's whereabouts.
Possum Jones passed away over 17 years ago in Okeechobee, Florida. I was dismayed to discover this, but this is not the first time this has happened to me. Several months ago, I found out that Bob Derrington (6th in points in 1965, his only full season!) had actually died in 2011 without mention. Needless to say, I was quite disappointed to discover this. I set about to correct the mistakes propagated by the internet with a heavy heart.
I wish you the best of luck Perry because this is going to turn VERY ugly once the hell that will show up below your comment breaks loose.
"So there!! Better read this quick folks because I'm sure the political correct police will be here soon. Oh,Lord, I just saw a Toyota Prius drive my The Lair slowly!!!!!"
You were so obviously hamming it up when you wrote this line.
My mother and I do most of these quizzes without any trouble whatsoever :P
Forgot one that I am sure many of you will like: http://www.sporcle.com/games/21forever/nascar-winners-from-north-carolina
