Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
Awesome accomplishment by your son!
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Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
Now you're hitting close to home, Chase.
A number of those Pinewood Derby cars have gone through final prep in the Fulton's Charlotte garage by the older grandson.
Back in the day ( the olden days ) when I was a Cub Scout in the 1950s, we didn't have the Pinewood Derby. Many women were "Stay-at-home" moms and we had a den mother for my Den 3 of Pack 714 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Richmond. We wore our uniform to school and met weekly at the Den Mother's house and monthly at the church Pack Meeting.
And I can really bore you by stating that my blue and gold 1950s Cub Scout uniform (along with a Boy Scout cap) has a place of honor in the cedar chest that resides at the foot of the bed in our master bedroom.
Check these out. Please note the SANFORIZE D tag in the "Official Shirt." Those are the same folks (Cluett-Peabody, Inc. ) who'd later provide the funding for my Wrangler SanforSet 400 races at Richmond.
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
And Junie Donlavey added a touch of red & white to the blue & gold scheme on the famed Truxmore Mercs
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess when hand painting took a back seat to the "wrap" we kinda went into a space warp from which we shall never recover.
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
Yep, there have been some good looking blue & gold cars, 'cept I seem to recall member Jim Wilmore not liking that combo too well. Dennis, I'd forgotten about those nice looking Bubba Tatum Late Model Sportsman cars. And, Woody, we all remember David Pearson getting around the "new" 1/2-mile Richmond Fairgrounds asphalt in that #17 Holman-Moody Ford just as good as he got around the "old" dirt track in the Cotton Owens' #6 Dodges.
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
Thanks, Chase... I always think of those reddish/maroon cars when I think of Buddy.
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
Beginning in 1966 and continuing through 1989, JD McDuffie cranked up his #70 for 39 Cup races at Richmond and led 2 of the 11,062 laps he completed at Paul Sawyer's Richmond track.
Memories of Another Blue & Gold Car
Stock Car Racing History
It wasn't a Cup car. The number wasn't #70. The sponsor wasn't Rumple Furniture, Bailey Excavating or even Wilders, Inc. The shades of blue & gold weren't a perfect match.
But, watching Kevin Harvick wheel his blue & gold car with white numbers to victory lane at Richmond Friday night sure made me think of another blue & gold car with white numbers that made a many a lap at the Richmond track before Harvick ever raced there.
Steve Helber - Associated Press Photo
updated by @dave-fulton: 02/07/20 10:31:14AM
Johanna Long Looked Terrific at Richmond
Current NASCAR
You're right, Randy... he sure did do a serious bleep... bleep... bleep... crybaby routine.
Johanna Long Looked Terrific at Richmond
Current NASCAR
How about that run Johanna Long made in Friday night's Nationwide race at Richmond?
Qualified 8th and just outdrove a bunch of good ole boys and a another gal right up to 5th place before the first round of pit stops. I was hoping and praying that maybe some top flight Cup crew would suddenly appear in her pits and get her back out quickly. Alas, she was no longer even in the top-10 after the stop and just plain wore out her stuff trying to get back to the front.
What poise she showed in her garage interview. That lady is a RACER with capital letters. Let's get her some pit stop help, please.
Johanna Long leads a pack off the corner at Richmond on Friday night - Chris Graythen/Getty Images
updated by @dave-fulton: 03/10/17 04:49:01AM