So What if the Grandstands Just Burned Down? We've Got a Race to Run! Where's the Easter Bunny?
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[quote="Bobby Williamson"]
That's a great story.... and one that could never happen today. 8800 fans!
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You're so right, Bopper.
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So What if the Grandstands Just Burned Down? We've Got a Race to Run! Where's the Easter Bunny?
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Yes, Dennis,. I wrote the original post. The Jim in my quote was a former RR member whose post no longer appears. And, oh yes, I sure do wish I had met Little Joe. His old modified car owner and former partner, Paul Sawyer told me so many stories about Joe and Curtis Turner and their adventures that I really heard a lot.
March 27, 1960: Lee Petty Whoops 'Em at Wilkesboro
Stock Car Racing History
Maurice "Chief" Petty can be clearly seen around the 9:54 mark driving the #41 Plymouth on the dirt at Richmond on March 8, 1964 in this Ford Motor Company documentary on Ned Jarrett from 1966:
Racing History Minute - March 27, 1977 - Ferrum Flash Paul Radford Sweeps Martinsville Dogwood 500 Doubleheader
Stock Car Racing History
Qualifying and rainout postponement clips for Martinsville Speedway's 1977 Dogwood 500 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman / Modified doubleheader from the pages of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance Star.
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updated by @dave-fulton: 03/26/17 11:38:57AM
Racing History Minute - March 24, 1974
Stock Car Racing History
Thanks for the new photo link, Russ. It always amazed me how much money track promoters wasted on loud speakers as evidenced in several of your shots. Track announcers gave a lap by lap running commentary during races that nobody could decipher unless the field was under caution.
Passing of Pete Hamilton
Stock Car Racing History
Pete was the 1967 NASCAR Sportsman division National Champion. This was his ride:
Passing of Pete Hamilton
Stock Car Racing History
So sorry to hear of Pete's passing. Now he can join his mentor, "Steady Eddie" Flemke. Will never forget in June 1969 watching Pete blow the doors off the field in the Gene White (ex Smokey Yunick ) Camaro at South Boston Speedway's first GT / Grand American race as my hero, Ray Hendrick ran second in the Joie Chitwood, Jr. Camaro.
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Pete towered over his dimunitive hero Ed Flemke, Sr.in this photo with "Wild Bill" Slater. |
updated by @dave-fulton: 03/22/17 04:25:02PM
WHAT DO THESE HAVE IN COMMON? ANY GUESSES? KEEP READING.
Stock Car Racing History
Richard was always good at arm twsting... i.e. twisting Plymouth/Chrysler's arm with his 1969 one season move to Ford. For the life of me, I don't know or recall the origin of the Wrangler patch on Richard's collar.
updated by @dave-fulton: 03/22/17 10:24:14AM