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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/20/14 11:33:48AM
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September 17, 1967 - Foyt triumphs in Milwaukee


Stock Car Racing History

The Tony Bettenhausen trophy was sponsored by local Milwaukee brewer Miller's High Life brand and awarded to drivers for their outstanding seasons at various divisions at Mikwaukee's State Fair Park Speedway and Hale's Corner Speedway.

Rusty Wallace's web site bio lists him as winning the trophy in 1980 for the USAC stock car division:

Haven't seen a photo.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/18/14 04:54:47PM
9,138 posts

September 17, 1967 - Foyt triumphs in Milwaukee


Stock Car Racing History


Just checked... Miss Firebird's future hubby, Jerry Kramer was up the road at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin on September 17, 1967, playing the Detroit Lions to a 17-17 standoff tie in the days before sudden death overtime during the regular season.

Alex Karas of that Lions team would later become a huge Dale Earnhardt fan hanging out in our Wrangler pits and staying at our hotels back in the 80s.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/18/14 04:38:18PM
9,138 posts

September 17, 1967 - Foyt triumphs in Milwaukee


Stock Car Racing History


The SCR photos also show that Pure Oil had dispatched "Miss Firebird" - Winkie Louise - to the Milwaukee USAC stock car event rather than the NASCAR Hillsboro race on the same date.

Winkie would later marry Green Bay Packers guard Jerry Kramer who was busy that fall leading the Packers toward their second consecutive Super Bowl title.

Two of Miss Firebird's husband's books - "Instant Replay" - recapping the Packers season leading to their triumph in Super Bowl I - and "Distant Replay" - a look at the first Super Bowl winning team (Packers ) at its reunion ten years later - are prized in my book collection here at the house. Maybe "cheesehead" Jerry was over at the Milwaukee race hooking up with Wink.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/18/14 08:28:07AM
9,138 posts

September 17, 1967 - Foyt triumphs in Milwaukee


Stock Car Racing History

Interesting recap. I had never heard the story of Bosco Lowe going up to run USAC.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/17/14 03:26:56PM
9,138 posts

Sterling Marlin update


Local and Regional Short Track Racing

Let's hope the duct tape and Super Glue remedies keep Sterling going as long as he wants.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/19/14 12:06:44PM
9,138 posts

FOUND A HONEY IN A FIELD


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

Ok, Johnny... I found a diner in Shallotte. Next move is Bopper's!

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/19/14 12:34:03AM
9,138 posts

FOUND A HONEY IN A FIELD


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

Clarksville Diner

Originally located in Clarksville, New Jersey until its purchase by Gordon Tindall in late 1980s and transport to Decorah, Iowa. Lovingly restored and put back into service by Tindall, even after a car slammed into it during the restoration. Despite positive write-ups and its placement on the National HIstoric Register, Gordon closed the diner and sold it to a French television network in 1999. Diner was subsequently de-listed -- first ever to have that happen to a diner.

Photos byChristian LEMONCHOIS

If your sponsor ever got sold to a French television station.... you might be a....

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/19/14 12:26:16AM
9,138 posts

FOUND A HONEY IN A FIELD


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

Another story about the owner of the Hudson's Clarksville Diner sponsor carried this line about the diner owner:

Im kind of half and half. I like going to art galleries, and I like going to stock car races, he said.

Since the Clarksville Diner sponsored the Hudson, it has been sold to a French television station and moved to France!

Wonder what that Hudson would look like on a French oval?

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/19/14 12:13:25AM
9,138 posts

FOUND A HONEY IN A FIELD


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

The story of the Hudson's last sponsor:

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
09/18/14 11:54:47PM
9,138 posts

FOUND A HONEY IN A FIELD


Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

A few more shots of the Hudson:

Clarksville Diner is located in Decorah, Iowa. On May 07, 2002, the National Park Service certified Clarksville Diner as a national historic site, and assigned it the reference number 93001356.

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