Bad Brad's Sonny Hutchins/Emanuel Zervakis Look-A-Like Richmond Car
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Wonder if the Keselowski car is a Sam Bass from Richmond design who was subconsciously remembering the Zervakis / Hutchins cars?
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Bad Brad's Sonny Hutchins/Emanuel Zervakis Look-A-Like Richmond Car
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Dave Dion in #27 racing then Richmonder (Mechanicsville) Al Grinnan in the "Coleman Mann from Powhatan" #00va for the lead at Thunder Road in Barre, Vermont NASCAR Late Model Sportsman competition.
Bad Brad's Sonny Hutchins/Emanuel Zervakis Look-A-Like Richmond Car
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Thanks, Woody. Good stuff.
Bad Brad's Sonny Hutchins/Emanuel Zervakis Look-A-Like Richmond Car
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Hey, Bill... here's one posted by RR member Butch Zervakis, who originally built (and drove) the powder blue #01 - showing it side-by-side at Virginia's Langley Field with Sonny racing new teammate Geoff Bodine in the #99 "White Tornado." But, note all the original powder blue paint on the frame and interior of Geoff's former Sonny Hutchins car.
Bad Brad's Sonny Hutchins/Emanuel Zervakis Look-A-Like Richmond Car
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Not sure where the car design for Brad Keselowski's Detroit Genuine Parts / Penske Racing Ford for this weekend's Richmond Cup race emanated, but it seems appropriate that the powder blue color scheme would debut in Richmond - home of the late Richmond driver Sonny Hutchins and Richmond car builder Emanuel Zervakis.
In the late 60s and early 70s, Sonny and car owner Emanuel Zervakis made the powder blue look a frontrunner and winner with their beautiful #01 Chevelles, Novas and Monte Carlos in NASCAR Late Model Sportsman competition. A Winston Cup version even sat on the front row at Martinsville next to the King and led the first 70 laps. What goes around comes around. Anyway, Richmond fans will be very familiar with Brad's new color scheme.
Brad Keselowski Richmond ride
Sonny Hutchins / Emanuel Zervakis #01 Late Model Sportsman and Winston Cup rides
updated by @dave-fulton: 11/26/21 08:41:20PM
Butler Charged With Embezzlement
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I have absolutely no compassion for folks who do this when the rest of us are working our tails off and paying by the book. If they're guilty, I hope they get the maximum penalties. Shame, shame, shame.
State charges bookkeeper helped Concord car-equipment company steal tax money
April 24, 2014
RALEIGH The secretary/treasuer and bookkeeper of Butlerbuilt Motorsports Equipment, a Concord-based vendor of customized seats and other gear for race cars, was arrested Wednesday on charges that the company kept more than $400,000 in state and county sales tax and $261,000 in income tax from employees' paychecks from as far back as December 2003.
Barbara Butler, named in three arrest warrants obtained by the state Department of Revenue, was listed in those as Barbara Beard Butler and on Wake County arrest records as Barbara Jean Butler.
Butler, 61, of 8263 Addison Drive in Harrisburg, was being held in the Wake County Detention Center in lieu of $1 million bail for a first court appearance Thursday in Wake County District Court.
She was arrested at her home Wednesday morning, records show.
The warrants charged two counts of embezzlement of state property, citing the income tax and state sales tax, and one count of embezzlement by a public officer or trustee because companies that collect county sales taxes are considered trustees of the counties.
The warrants say the money was converted to the companys use, not Butlers personal use.
Butler, the warrants obtained by DOR Investigator Marla J. Bryant said, was the secretary/treasurer and bookkeeper for Butler Specialties Inc. and was the person who should have sent the money to the department.
Butler Specialties does business as Butlerbuilt Motorsports Equipment, Bryant wrote. The company advertizes Butlerbuilt Professional Seat Systems on its website.
The income tax withheld from employees $261,388.09 was not turned over to the state between July 4, 2009, and Jan. 1 of this year, one warrant alleged.
The other two charge Butler with not turning over $267,893.09 in state sales tax and $132,965.97 in sales taxes for numerous counties between Dec. 1, 2003, and Jan. 20 of this year.
The company apparently was having other issues with its administration during then same time periods.
The Secretary of States Office shows Butler Specialties was formed Jan. 7, 1987.In 1992, iIt began regularly filing the annual reports required of corporations, and filed them through December 2002. Then they stopped.
The Department of Revenue issued a notice for the Secretary of State to put Butler Specialties on suspension as far as being a corporation in October 2009, the year DOR charged Butler began to not send in money withheld from employees.
DOR does not specifics when it lists a company for suspension, a spokesman for the Secretary of States Office said.
The Secretary of State took separate action, sending the company notices in March 2010 and April 2011 that it needed to get caught up on its reports.
The office dissolved Butler Specialties Inc. as a corporation on July 21, 2011.
Being dissolved does not mean an operation has to cease, but it does take away any legal protection that the owners got by creating a corporation, such as protecting their personal assets from any corporate creditors.
The state records show that the last person listed as the official registered agent of Butler Specialties Inc. was Brian J. Butler, with an address at the companys business in Concord. He is not mentioned in the arrest warrants.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/24/3807848/state-charges-bookkeeper-helped.html?sp=/99/102/#storylink=cpy
A Petty Anniversary Remembered as King Returns to NASCAR at Richmond
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The 9 Richmond cover Pontiacs are as follows:
#27 Rusty Wallace Raymond Beadle/Kodiak
#75 Morgan Shepherd Rahmoc/Valvoline
#43 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises/STP
#42 Kyle Petty Sabco/Peak AntiFreeze
#29 Dale Jarrett Cale Yarborough/Hardee's
#30 Michael Waltrip Chuck Rider/Country Time Lemonade
#68 Derrike Cope Jim Testa/Purolator
#88 Greg Sacks Buddy Baker/Crisco
#57 Hut Stricklin Rod Osterlund/Heinz Ketchup
In addition to Richard Petty, the cover featured Pontiacs of Kyle Petty and Hut Stricklin failed to make the race, along with the unpictured Pontiacs of Ken Bouchard, JD McDuffie and Jimmy Means. Pontiacs driven by Ernie Irvan, Jim Sauter and Mickey Gibbs made the race, but not the program cover.
A staggering 10 Cup cars went home and 36 started. The field at Richmond was later expanded to 43 cars.
A Petty Anniversary Remembered as King Returns to NASCAR at Richmond
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Petty makes emotional return at Richmond
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By Holly Cain
RICHMOND, Va. -- Donning his trademark cowboy hat and wide grin, Richard Petty posed for photographs with children from the local Children's Miracle Network Hospital Friday morning at Richmond International Raceway.
It was the first time the Hall of Famer had been at a race track since his beloved wife of 55 years, Lynda, 72, passed away on March 25. And beyond the smiles, handshakes and polite greetings, it was obvious NASCAR's "King" was still grieving, still hurting.
His voice was soft and quivered at times speaking with a small handful of reporters.
"I'm still surviving," Petty said, his voice full of emotion. "I'm just going to have to live. ... (pause) It's going to be different, you know. Start all over again.
"Been fortunate all the kids came home for Easter and all the kids and grandkids and that really made things good."
Petty said the three races he missed during the last month mark the longest span away from the track -- ever -- and he's hopeful that being back will be a welcome distraction from what's been a sorrowful month.
"I just felt like I needed to sort of have a little time on our own, to be gone for two, three weeks," Petty said, pausing.
"But I'm back in the saddle now, learning to live all over again.
"The things we were supposed to do for the past three weeks were kinda put off, so we started Monday and we were in Georgia Monday, on Tuesday we were in Tennessee, Wednesday in Wyoming and got up there Thursday.
"The busier they keep me, the better it's going to be."
Both Marcos Ambrose and Richard Petty Motorsports teammate Aric Almirola expressed how pleased they were to have the boss trackside again -- important not only for the team, but also for Petty.
"He's our leader, he's the face of our race team," Almirola said. "To have him back and have him back on top of the trailer, back in the garage area is going to be big for me as a driver, but really big for our entire race team just to have his presence. It will be huge."
Petty acknowledged that he has been so genuinely touched by the outpouring of support from within the NASCAR community during this difficult time and seemed to perk up when speaking fondly of Lynda, even laughing at one recollection.
"It's just great that many people knew Lynda, of course she's been around a long time, too," Petty said smiling. "She never met a stranger. Every once in awhile I'd come in the house and see people I didn't even know; she'd invited them into the house, spend the night whatever.
"Again, it's just going to be different (for me)," he added.
Petty was especially moved to be a part of Friday's event with fans, children and Ambrose's No. 9 Stanley Ford racing team. Petty helped present a $100,000 check to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and was enthusiastic about supporting the "Racing for a Miracle" program.
If Ambrose wins Saturday night's Toyota Owners 400, Stanley -- through the Ace Hardware Foundation -- will donate $1 million to the program. If he finishes second, the company will write a check for $500,000, and a third-place finish would net $250,000.
Petty said spending time with the children was as good for him as it was for them.
"We've got troubles but a lot of other people have troubles and so ? like you see it with Victory Junction Gang Camp, we were so fortunate," Petty said. "We had four kids and 12 grandkids and every one of them is perfectly healthy and then you look around at all these others that aren't.
"You just want to give back."
In this case, it appeared to be working both ways.
A Petty Anniversary Remembered as King Returns to NASCAR at Richmond
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Excerpt from 2012 NASCAR News Release
A Petty Anniversary Remembered as King Returns to NASCAR at Richmond
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Richard Petty is set to return to the track at Richmond this weekend following the death of wife, Lynda Petty in March.
The 2014 spring Cup race at Richmond marks the 25th anniversary of Richard failing to qualify for the spring 1989 Pontiac Excitement 400 at Richmond. That was a day big on drama and resulted in what became known as the Petty Rule and Past Champion's Provisional.
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The Petty family is the only family to have three generations of drivers win in NASCAR Cup racing. We welcome Richard back to the only venue - Richmond - where all three generations won Cup races and where Richard is the all-time winner.
updated by @dave-fulton: 03/30/18 06:57:39AM