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WHATS THE BEST NEWS YOU EVER HEARD WHILE EATING YOGURT

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Sorry about your suffering Dave but the cottage cheese and yogurt would just make it worse for me. I'll take milk shakes and pudding please.

WHATS THE BEST NEWS YOU EVER HEARD WHILE EATING YOGURT

Stock Car Racing History

I read somewhere that Luke Lambert as crew chief and the crew would be the same for Ryan as it is now for Burton.

WHATS THE BEST NEWS YOU EVER HEARD WHILE EATING YOGURT

Stock Car Racing History

Wonder how Ryan feels about blaming his pit crew now.

NASCAR Cancels Rockingham K&N Race; Track Didn't Meet Obligations Says Sanctioning Body

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When the trucks took to the dirt at Eldora this summer I watched a segment Ray Dunlap did on Speed that was about the tracks he thought the trucks should run on. He listed big tracks, short tracks, road courses and more dirt tracks. What I noticed missing from his list was Rockingham. Looks like he knew something then we still don't know now.

NASCAR Cancels Rockingham K&N Race; Track Didn't Meet Obligations Says Sanctioning Body

Current NASCAR

Bet NASCAR doubled their sanctioning fee.

Racing History Minute - September 7, 1964

Stock Car Racing History

Thanks for the Darlington series Tim, I really enjoyed it and all the comments added by members. Sat under the covered section of the front stretch (my ears rang for days) and watched them run under the lights. Nothing like the Grand Daddy of them All "Darlington".

Racing History Minute - September 6, 1965

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I have the good fortune to know the owner of Buren Skeen's car, Reid Shaw, as dad drove Cougars and a Mustang for him in the GT and GA series. Like most drivers, owners and crew members he does not like to talk about that day at Darlington. It still hurts to this day. Reid was at the first Southern 500 with Buck Baker and I don't think he missed one until 1966. He did not go back to Darlington until 1968 when the GT cars ran. He and dad went to see if this new series was something they might want to tackle. After watching Tiny win in Bud Moore's Cougar the following spring Reid bought one of those Cougars and then a second one before Talladega. Those Cougars carried them to the Grand Touring Rookie of the Year award in 1969.

Tim is correct in calling him an independent but I like the term "Gentleman Racer" as I once heard him called. A business man whose "hobby" was racing as there wasn't much money to be made in racing in those days.

Also, Thank you Tim for noting who owned Buren's car. Most remember the drivers but not many remember the owners like Reid and Bud. They feel the loss almost as much as the families.

Here's to Reid Shaw and the others like him who made it possible for a lot of racers to do what they loved.

Other September 3 Southern 500 winners

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Dave, This shows the photos were sold in 2006 right? I looked on e-bay and could not find them. Would love to see a picture of the car.

Other September 3 Southern 500 winners

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I just learned of some family history about the 1951 Southern 500 that I did not know but thought it was interesting enough to share. My uncle Buck Petty (my mother's brother) was part owner of one of the cars in the race. He had a gas station in Liberty, NC. and the story goes that they went around the hosiery mill collecting $50 from anyone wanting in on owning a race car. I think the owner of the mill even got involved. They got enough money to go to Gate City Motors, the Chrysler dealer in Greensboro, and bought a 1951 Plymouth. You think a 1950 Plymouth winning the first Southern 500 had anything to do with their choice? They took the car to Buck's station in Liberty and got it ready for the race. Ultimate Racing History list Hubert Westmoreland as the owner but dad thinks he helped tune the engine and was more or less the crew chief. Hubert was from High Point and at the time known for building drag motors. The actual owner was a bunch of hosiery mill workers and the owner of the mill. I don't know how many people put up money except for Uncle Buck and Arnold Hogan (still building old cars) but I suspect the owner of the mill had the biggest stack in the deal as $50 was more than a weeks pay back then.

They enlisted Johnny Yountz to drive the car and put #78 on it. Johnny started 34th with the plan being to run the apron to save the tires but they still had a few flats. He is listed as finishing 43rd while completing 366 of the 400 laps. Sadly Johnny's day ended on his roof or he would have had a much better finish.

Now for the rest of the story. I've heard stories like this before but I'm told this is true. They beat the top back out, repainted the car and took it back to Greensboro and turned the car back in to the dealer.

Racing History Minute - Darlington continued

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TMC, The 1960 first alternate Yvonne Quick from Bennettsville was in the Rockingham Speedway Beauty Pageant several times.