I somehow managed to miss this CNN documentary - CNN Presents: Dirt Track Warriors - on dirt track racing when it aired in 2006. Just found it on YouTube. If it's been posted previously, my apologies.
Oops... that was the former ERIN Crocker wasn't it:?
Andy, I often have the same thought.... way too much clutter.
Thanks, Dennis. The #54 was Bobby's traditional car number when I was watching him in late 60s.
You know, Dennis, I never read anything about 6th place finisher Bobby Fleming of Danville, Virginia , but at one time or another I watched him race just about anything NASCAR sanctioned, from Modified to Late Model Sportsman to GT/Grand American to GN/Cup - often at South Boston Speedway. If you have a photo of Bobby in your files I'd sure like to see it.
L adabouche Collection
Bobby Fleming, 1971 Photo
Catamount Stadium web site
Bobby Fleming at Richmond Fairgrounds- car #51 - in NASCAR LMS race - Woody Delbridge photo
Bobby Fleming sideways at Richmond's Southside Speedway being "helped" by Wayne Patterson in 1978 NASCAR late Model Sportsman action photo by David Allio
The 2-mile M.I.S. layout was not kind to the small blocks.
L.D. was already winning on his hometown track in Newport, TN back in 1962:
credit lothiandon1940 at H.A.M.B. site
Dennis, the Atomic Speedway dirt track where two-time NASCAR Late Model Sportsman National Champion, L.D. Ottinger cut his teeth was located in East Tennessee, southwest of Knoxville at Lenoir City, TN. The now defunct track (site of a trucking terminal) was also almost due south of Oak Ridge, TN where much of the top-secret work of the Manhattan Project to produce the ingredients needed to detonate the first Atomic bombs over Japan during WWII were produced. Thus, the ATOMIC name.
There seems to be an Atomic track in Ohio and I read that the the Atomic name was also being resurrected for another East Tennessee track.
Location of the now defunct Atomic Speedway in East Tennessee.
Johnny, this is not my photo, but when I was doing the PR for Detroit Gasket in the late 80s, our Busch Series driver, good, ole L.D. Ottinger often talked of getting his start at Atomic Speedway and he returned there even as he made a name for himself in NASCAR LMS and later Busch Series circles.
From the Tribute to East Tennessee Racing section at mrmracing.net
