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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
10/04/12 04:39:54PM
9,138 posts

Tunis Speedway--1948-1983, Waterloo, Iowa
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Never know what you'll find when old racers open old boxes! Good luck with your project.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
10/04/12 04:32:37PM
9,138 posts

Tunis Speedway--1948-1983, Waterloo, Iowa
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Jim, in 2009, Circle Track magazine did a really nice story about Keith Knaack, Iowa racing, Kathy Root and IMCA, which predates NASCAR by 33 years.

Here's the story link:

http://www.circletrack.com/featuredvehicles/ctrp_0612_imca_racing/v...

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
10/04/12 04:23:30PM
9,138 posts

Tunis Speedway--1948-1983, Waterloo, Iowa
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Jim, thanks for sharing that letter written by Keith Knaack, the late publisher of Hawkeye Racing News. When I was Media Relations Director at RIR, I had the pleasure of meeting Keith not too long before his passing when we first ran USAC Silver Crown and Midget cars at Richmond in the early 90s. He was an extremely well versed proponent of auto racing and we were delighted for him to make the cross country trip to our events. We really enjoyed his stories of the Knoxville Nationals and all the racing around Iowa.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
10/04/12 03:55:18PM
9,138 posts

Tunis Speedway--1948-1983, Waterloo, Iowa
Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Jim, this is really great stuff. I'm always interested in John Deere connections to racing. My old Richmond, Va. pal and longtime racing companion, Frank Buhrman ( now of Carroll Valley, Pa .) had a paternal grandfather who established the leading John Deere distributorship, Buhrman & Sons, Inc. in the Richmond, Virginia area in 1921.

Here's a link to a little info about Frank's grandfather:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85698244

Mr. Buhrman was one of the founders of the Atlantic Rural Exposition where Richmond races were conducted beginning in 1946 and is today the site of Richmond International Raceway.

I sent the link to your post to Frank, since I know he'll enjoy the John Deere racing connection.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
12/26/12 05:54:08PM
9,138 posts

Another Dale Earnhardt Rarity Found in My Garage Today
Stock Car Racing History

Just added a photo of the "Comin' At Ya!" tee shirt sourced by "Little Bud" Moore featuring the 1982 Dale Earnhardt "Big" Bud Moore Wrangler Thunderbird. The shirt was being auctioned on ebay.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
10/03/12 07:00:46PM
9,138 posts

Another Dale Earnhardt Rarity Found in My Garage Today
Stock Car Racing History

Certainly not worthy of Antiques Road Show, but I just came across another family heirloom in a box in the garage.

I doubt many of you have ever seen this or even remember it.

After his 1980 Winston Cup Championship season, Wrangler produced a #2 Dale Earnhardt / Wrangler tee shirt for the 1981 NASCAR Winston Cup Season celebrating Dale's first Championship.

The shirts were sewn in Wrangler sewing plants in the United States of America. The screen printing was sourced by Earnhardt family friend, Paul "Little Bud" Moore and the shirts were sold at the track by Little Bud for Dale. Wrangler's accounting department kept up with the royalties for Dale.

I still have no camera at the house, so a partial scan is the best I can do right now.

This scan shows just the front of the shirt... it was white with blue long sleeves and a blue neck band. Dale was wearing one of those fancy cowpoke hats with a Wrangler hat band on it. The artist caught every single one of Dale's crow's feet on each eye... a real rarity.

This particular shirt is a child's size Large worn by my then 5 year old daughter, Gwyn during the 1981 season. She'll be 37 in December.

When Wrangler and Dale affiliated with Richard Childress and changed the car number to #3 in late summer 1981, all remaining shirts and all other Wrangler / Earnhardt souvenir items bearing the number 2 were shredded and burned.

Thought you might enjoy.


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