Fellow RR member (but who rarely posts), Brian 200WINZ Hauck is the proud owner of a limited edition Richard Petty belt buckle. The King had them made following his 7th championship in 1979, and he gave them to a few selective individuals. Turns out Brian ended up with one of them.
An oversized belt buckle ... with tennis shoes. Yep, a regular cowpoke she is. *spit*
Oh my. "It was great that Tony picked the difficult races, because it got them out of the way..."
This just in dear. The difficult races are held EVERY YEAR. You think the next time at Darlington, Charlotte, Bristol, or Richmond will be much easier than your first trip ... or your last trip as is the case for many drivers? Ask someone like Kyle Petty who wanted Darlington filled and stock with bass because he struggled it so mightily. Good grief, you just don't get it.
Hope she enjoys 2013 because it won't surprise me to see her out of Cup in 2014 - maybe a move to something like Grand Am / ALMS.
Program from Motor Racing Programme Covers
Bodine & Evans from Ed Sanseverino photos.
Richie Evans with his hard-earned trophy. - Getty Images
A few days ago, I finally got around to blogging about a song I shared here several weeks ago: Massey's Run. Doug Williams, the songwriter, tells the story of Richard Petty's win in the 1960 Virginia 500 at Martinsville. Since I originally learned of the song, I've corresponded a good bit with Doug. For the moment, the song is simply a live number. They are trying to raise funds to hire the studio help they need and want to make a new album a reality. Read more and listen here:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/10/masseys-run.html
As for a Martinsville museum - including a King exhibit, well count me in. I'm drooling baby.
HA HA
What was it Dale Sr said about kerosene rags and ankles? 
DF - PKL - Cop outs! Ha ha.
That's the beauty of this forum. Make up our own rules. Kind of like RR's own version of NASCAR's oft-invoked EIRI. Didn't say it was going to be easy.
Pretty cool. This reply might need to be separate forum post, but here goes anyway. The list of NASCAR's Fifty Greatest Drivers was released in 1998. I'm curious who from 1998 through today could displace someone on that original list.
I was going to suggest Jeff Gordon from the jump - until I realized he made the cut back then. What? He was only in his 5th season!! OK, so on I go. Three shoo-ins for me are:
On the fence are:
But if any of these guys make the cut, who has to fall off the Top 50?
Was surfing through Comcast TV listings tonight when I stumbled across this option. Imagine my surprise when it was some band called Stone Temple Pilots instead of Andy Granatelli introducing Richard Petty in January 1972. Oh well...
The King had two wins at Old Dominion - the first in 1963 and the second in 1965.
Though brief and without much detail, here is my blog entry about RP's 1963 win:
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-18-this-day-in-petty-history.html
His 1965 victory was one of two Petty wins that I was unable to find any meaningful information. Please contact me if you have any articles, photos, program cover, ticket stub, memories, etc. you could share about Richard's win on September 17, 1965.
