All Jacked Up…and Standing Tall On MY Soap Box!!!
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Awww the heck with it,Jeff you have struck ma very sensitive nerve here in this little message.To start with lets not use how many races they won because thats not fair to todays wantabe racers,and I will use that very loosely. I welcome any of the racers of today to come on down and lets run a few races in the equipt that they ran in back in the day. First off no power steering and with steam rollers on front and rear on dirt,no follow the leader paved track and oh by the way these tracks were then and today too short tracks. Yup we gonna run five nites,no lets make it six nites a week and on sun afternoon. Now you think of this,the cars back then were kinda drafty from the engine so its kinda hot in the car so be sure and bring you a rag to chew on . Second now these tracks are kinda dusty so you need to get a pair of googles to maybe keep the dirt out of your eyes.Now you say Ralph is not a racer? really!! Seems to me the driver of that number 8 Chevelle was named Earnhardt and he had a boy that was kinda doing a real good job of getting around a track too several nites a week and on sunday.We drove cars todays racers would frown on and maybe a couple of three would be able to muster the effort to run a 100 lap race oh lets say three nites a week and usually on sunday too,oh by the way we worked on our cars between races because there was no pit crew to speak of much less a hauler with tools in them.The back lot at the motel or the lot at the truck stop or if you were lucky a guy let you use the lift in a service station was our shop and motor home to rest in ,what rest i say. Ask Jim Streeter or Eddie McDonald , or Harold Fountain how we fared on this.. No such luxurys were there,Richard Petty was out in the dirt working on their cars readying them for the next race.So next time one of you wantabe racers care to get up on that little box you call a command center ,on a short track car even, let us know and one or maybe a score of us old farts as we sometimes are called Will open tow to where you are so you wont be exhausted when race time comes and take a ricktey old modified and kinda run around the track so you can follow us and maybe just maybe you can get the message. Oh and by the way Ned Jarrett was more the man then than any of these newby will ever dare think of being. Oh by the way Jeff Gilder did it too with the knowledge of old school guiding him and poor ole Tim well Tim did it with sheer guts and determination taking a mopar and putting it where he did up front race after race --- WE know what we did, will you ever??? my message dont need no approval its got guts behind it Johnny Mallonee "77"
