Back-up car?
Current NASCAR
Back when the Pettys were the name on the billboard the guy who wrote the saga above of watching the practice and dreaming of old pettys and fireball cars was one of those die hard racers . Yes he pulled his fantastic Plymouth to the track each week,but not in a closed car carrier or a closed trailer pulled by a dually or pickup loaded with tools and tires. He pulled it first by towbar but that was labor intense because he had repairs to make at the track before he could race. He then graduated to a trailer,yup one with 4 wheels and pulled it with---------are you ready for this ? a borrowed car or whoever was handy,now thats a racer. But tires and tools,a western auto toolbox that held all you needed, were stuck in the racecar. Pit crew you say well if one or two guys wandered over they were it. But when the green flag fell he was a terror on the track. Dont let that smile behind those dark glasses fool you he was on a mission,I know because we butted heads on the track more than once and discussed it in depth in the pits afterwards.So when you see a driver on tv walk up to a camera looking like he just came from makeup,ha ha ha, think of ole Tim dusty and dirty from crawling under the car and fighting the car on the track,and think how that scrawney little brat could compare to the squeaky clean profile of todays drivers-- no comparison because Tim was an all around racer,nomedia or camera following him but was one of the real guys that was chisling out a small part for todays historyMy take on how it was in !970 at the track