Racing History Minute - June 16, 1962
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I especially enjoyed seeing the photo you found Chase of the Myers' sons as youngsters.
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Michigan who will it be --do you know or not
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Johnny, the same fellow many years ago who sang about the wreck of the Old 97 also sang a song about the wreck of #5. He was predicting the future, I believe. I can't remember any driver since I've followed racing who has crashed out as often and taken as many other cars with him as ole #5.
Michigan who will it be --do you know or not
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Looks like "Wreckum Kahne" is holding up a finger indicating he'll bring out the first yellow on Sunday. Or maybe that 1 finger means he'll crash and take out half the field on the first lap.
Whatever happened to Jocko Flocko
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That is EXACTLY the story told by Frances Flock to the author of a 2013 article in OUR STATE Magazine:
http://www.ourstate.com/jocko-flocko-nascar-monkey/
Whatever happened to Jocko Flocko
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A believable story is that when Jocko got socked by the rock while playing with the little tire door in the floor, he never fully recovered and had to be put to sleep. Tim didn't have the heart to tell that to children, so instead, with tongue in cheek, he patiently explained many times over than he had to let Jocko go because he couldn't sign autographs. Several of our members correspond with Tim's widow, Frances Flock. Perhaps they could ask her directly for us.
Whatever happened to Jocko Flocko
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I'm thinking one of Jocko's descendents may be living in Daytona and advising Brian France.
Racing History Minute - June 8, 1952
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13th place June 8, 1952 Lakewood NASCAR Speedway Division finisher and outside pole sitter, Al Fleming , was an extremely talented open wheel driver from my hometown of Richmond, Virginia. He passed in 1966 at age 59. In your first photo (I've reproduced it below) , that's Al Fleming in car #74 starting on the outside pole at Lakewood. The Hudson powered entry was owned by JB Siegfred.
When the NASCAR Speedway Division got to Charlotte Speedway on June 29, 1952, Richmond's Al Fleming put his #74 Hudson powered machine on the pole - below:
In 2001, the Indy cars returned to Richmond for the first time since the early 50s. On October 12, 1946, Al Fleming of Richmond won the 3rd heat of the first racing event (won by Ted Horn) ever staged on the brand new 1/2-mile dirt track at the Virginia State Fairground's Strawberry Hill, owned by Atlantic Rural Exposition. The red car below that was displayed before the 2001 Richmond Indy Car race is the very one Fleming drove at Richmond in 1946:
Below is a 1952 NASCAR Speedway Division photo of Richmond's Al Fleming in his #74 Hudson powered JB Siegfred car beside Bill Miller in Raymond Parks' #7 Olds powered entry:
That's Al Fleming of Richmond back in 1946 wheeling his #8 outside of Bill Holland's #3 on the same Lakewood track:
Fleming raced far and wide from his Richmond, Virginia home base. Below, that's Fleming getting ready to start his #4 from the outside pole at a 1948 AAA race in Belleville, Kansas:
A story from a young man some may remember
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Monk is driving the former Jack Tant / Clayton Mitchell /Ray Hendrick "Flying 11" renumbered as 88 at Martinsville in this 1977 David Allio photo. Monk's results definitely didn't match Ray's. That's a young Dale Earnhardt in #8 getting ready to test Clay Earles' concrete wall. 
A story from a young man some may remember
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Used to watch Monk race at Wilson in a car the announcer called "Monk's Junk."