LETS SEE WHO WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE HOMESTEAD RACE
Stock Car Racing History
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Ya know, ole Danica Sue has previous history with 7-Eleven as her IndyCar associate sponsor. They could hook up with her in NASCAR - green on green - or eventually replace GoDaddy.
More Danica exposure coming? Gonna shed the bikini top or something?
I saw it on the back of #88.
The Charlotte paper has a much respected, retired sports columnist named Ron Green, Sr. who each year comes out of retirement to write a column about the Masters Golf Tournament and publish his annual Thanksgiving "I'm thankful for...." list.
This morning's list included the following "I'm thankful for" line in his list on which I believe we can all agree, regardless of who we pull for or what we may believe the current state of racing to be:
Stock car drivers, a breed apart, a little bit rough, a little bit artist, a little bit hero, a little bit crazy.
On the JalopyJournal site recently, a Hickory resident (screen name Customcory) posted photographed pages from a 1950s Hickory Speedway program in the Fading Thunder section featuring old Virginia and Carolinas tracks. The Lucky Number 25 cents Souvenir Program advertises F ast O val R ace D rivers C lub staging Sportsman & Amateur races every Saturday night sanctioned by NASCAR and directed by Charlie Combs.
Some of the business telephone numbers are 4 digits and the residential numbers 3 digits, like those PattyKay Lilley recently told us about in her New York hometown. You'll see some familiar faces among the drivers and car owners as well as several defunct automobile brands. Also note photos from North Wilkesboro in the program.
I am not allowed by the ROE to tell my horror stories involving the "darling man" Paul Page. Suffice it to say that my company wound up paying a hotel bill in Miami that he walked out on. I would turn off the television if I ever saw him on any telecast. "Darling" he is not.