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If she loses her ride, wonder who will unseat her?
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OK...
I take the pledge to promise not to look next time Danica takes her clothes off.
HOWEVER....
I want you to look at what David Pearson had to say this morning on live chat with the Daytona Beach News Journal!
10:01
Comment From karl
which of today's drivers would you like to race with?
10:02
David Pearson:
Danica Patrick because she's pretty. And when we run side by side I can look at her. I'd like to run with Kyle, Carl, Tony and all of them.
There you have it from South Carolina's finest!!
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I am more sick of two yapping Waltrips.
I pray that Mikey's car will stay together during his Twin and the 500 so we don't get extra doses of him in the "Hotel" when he falls out early as he did this past weekend. Enough is enough.
Legend, you ought to first seek a copyright on the idea, then pitch "W" or Bill Rankin on the idea of a quick artistic rendering of Candy Man or Go Mama walking across Lake Lloyd while the market is hot. That could be your retirement fund!
Moonshiners
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Have never seen the moonshine TV show, just heard it being talked about on Racing Through History. Personally, I'm not very impressed with the Mike & Frank pickers stuff. Seems too staged and big deals made over insignificant stuff. I'm glad they paid visits to our own Billy Biscoe & Tiger Tom, but all of the hokey excitement they tried to create over that cigar box that UST's Lou Bantle gave Humpy Wheeler was (as our friend William Shakespeare once said) much ado about nothing.
I must admit to enjoying Pawn Stars, but its because you can get a pretty good history lesson on that show.
I've never watched any of those other "reality" shows. Back in the first season of that Survivor Island show, one of the contestants was the daughter of Jim Wigglesworth of Greensboro, NC, who at one time did all the Richard Petty souvenir sourcing. In 1999-2000, the US Dept. of Commerce Local Census Office Manager for the Hickory, NC Region during Census 2000 was fired for being a "bachelorette" on the first season of that show.
My wife has always loved soap operas and I gag over them when I pass through the room. Then again, she can't understand how anyone can sit and watch a race telecast with Dale Earnhardt no longer in the race.
Each to their own, I guess.
Moonshiners
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We've discussed this television show on Racing Through History . Thought you might enjoy this article that originated with a Danville (Va.) Register & Bee reporter and was reprinted in the Sunday Richmond Times-Dispatch .
Moonshiners' get taste of fame in Pittsylvania County
By: Tiffany Holland | Media General News Service
Published: February 19, 2012
"If you really love your country, you're gonna have to love moonshine," said Steve Tickle on the show "Moonshiners" on the Discovery Channel.
That quote is now written on T-shirts available for purchase. And if you are from the Dan River region, you may even get Tickle to sign it for you.
Since the debut of the show "Moonshiners" in December, the lives of its Pittsylvania County cast have been routine. They still get up and go to work every day like they have always done. Tim Smith still wears his trademark overalls and cowboy hat. His son, J.T., still goes to Gretna High School.
But now no matter where they go, everyone knows who they are.
But the cast seems to be enjoying its newfound fame. Last month, the group was at Thunder Road Harley-Davidson to help raise money for charity. They signed T-shirts and took photos with fans.
Hundreds came out to see the "Moonshiners." A line formed around the store, and one fan joked, "You'd think people here never seen a bootlegger before, and you know that ain't true."
But the fans weren't the doe-eyed teenagers from a "Twilight" screening, they were mostly grown men with full beards, their own bikes and knew a thing or two about brewing shine themselves. And they all wanted pictures and autographs with the men of "Moonshiners."
Although their names have become well-known, especially in the area, they still go about their everyday activities just as they did before "Moonshiners" aired. Many people have questioned how much of the show is staged, but their lifestyles from growing up in rural Virginia and Smith's passion for the art of moonshine and its history are as real as their accents.
However, making moonshine is illegal. The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control sent out a news release stating the show was misleading viewers to thinking they were allowing illegal activities. An official from the Virginia ABC said the show was a dramatization, moonshine was not actually being made and the ABC would not have participated if they knew how the episodes would turn out.
Releases from the Discovery Channel do not specify whether parts of the show are dramatized.
The show's six episodes did well in the ratings. According to Amy Hagovsky, a communications director for the Discovery Channel, the show averaged 2.8 million viewers per episode.
Because of the show's success, Matt Ostrom, one of the show's executive producers from Magilla Entertainment, said they were hopeful they could work out another season, but nothing is definite.
Tiffany Holland reports for the Danville Register & Bee.
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
Earl Parker Champion Spark Plug Company
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Earl was one of the nicest folks I ever met in racing. Seems his son worked the circuit for awhile after Earl retired.
Earl/Champion used to have a little "lounge" in the garage at Riverside with a restroom, air conditioning/heat and a couple of Naugahide sofas that was a great place to get out of that constant grit being blown in your eyes by that never ending Riverside wind.
Seems to me that Mose Noland was the very elderly gentleman who used to rep for Moog when I was around. I remember at Atlanta he always parked his car in the garage against the old pit road fence and worked out of his trunk,.