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Racing History Minute - April 1, 1961

Stock Car Racing History

Nice to read about the "Golden Greek" winning. Manuel went on to have quite a career.

Manuel had a horrible accident in his modified at Southside Speedway and gave up driving.

From his Southside Glass Shop on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1 ) in South Richmond (where Geoff Bodine once lived in the parking lot in a Winnebago while driving the #99 "White Tornado") , Manuel built winning Late Model Sportsman cars for Sonny Hutchins, Butch Lindley and Geoff Bodine. His Monte Carlo driven by Sonny even sat on the front row at Martinsville beside Richard and led the first 70 laps of a Cup race there. Zervakis also built many winning cars for other teams.

When Harry Gant became "Mr. September" , it was Manuel who had been hired as contract chassis specialist and had that Skoal Bandit really dialed in.

Manuel even promoted Southside Speedway while fielding those beautiful baby blue #01 cars for Sonny Hutchins and gave Southside Speedway the best run it ever had. Before his death, Manuel had purchased Stock Car Products and moved it from California to Richmond as a huge racing parts supplier.

Manuel's son, Butch is an RR member.

Emanuel Zervakis with the #85 Monroe Shook 1961 Chevy.

LETS SEE IF ANYONE HAS THE POWER TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION

Current NASCAR

Penske has a bratwurst and a just plain brat.

LETS SEE IF ANYONE HAS THE POWER TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION

Current NASCAR

It's Texas. The Biff has had success there and NASCAR could use another Roush win.

Ruby was Jealous of RR's Jimmy Johnson and his Simulator

General

We all know that Jimmy Johnson is out and about promoting our Stock Car RacersReunion site with the Bob Pressley '55 Chevy and the racing simulator.

I guess our goat mascot Ruby got pretty darned envious of Jimmy. My grandsons tell me the hot video game of the moment is named Goat Simulator!

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Big Bill, back in the early 50s used all kinds of tricks to promote Stock Car Racing.

Stock Car Racing History

Good one Jim. Thanks.

Who's the Outlaw Now?

Current NASCAR

When there was a front and back pit road at Martinsville, Bristol, Darlington and Rockingham with the field evenly split between the two pits, we didn't have the cluster jams on pit road we have today at Martinsville and Bristol with the long curving pit roads with no visibility.

Here's Martinsville in 1972. Watch the pit stops in the Car & Track Productions film of the Virginia 500 . No big jam ups on pit road like today. Of course, the turns were still asphalt then and NASCAR tolerated a little humor, such as Elmo Langley's pit board:

Who's the Outlaw Now?

Current NASCAR

I'm with you, Bill. I kept waiting for a big blow up that never came.

The real culprit at the beautiful Martinsville Speedway is that the back pit road was eliminated and now we have that deal where all the cars are jammed on that single curving pit road where nobody can see.

Who's the Outlaw Now?

Current NASCAR

Ironic... just this past Saturday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, someone speculated a little uniform we saw in a display case might have been the bellhop outfit of Philip Morris Tobacco Company's famed spokeman, "Little Johnny" who is pictured in this pre-Winston photo you've posted in the Winner's Circle with Curtis at Rockingham in 1965. The uniform at the NHOF turned out to be a driver's elementary school band uniform!

Who's the Outlaw Now?

Current NASCAR

I don't know how it is at the track and in the garage in these days of "Chase" racing, but in the "old" days If Brad had torn up the cars of others during his "retaliation" he'd have gotten his bohunkus kicked, on and off the track.

Racing History Minute - March 31, 1957

Stock Car Racing History

That was future Wilson County Speedway weekly promoter James Jones of Goldsboro, NC in last place at the Hillsboro convertible event.