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By golly, I sure don't want to be political or anything like that... but I was thinking of the Eddie Murphy movie "Trading Places" and thought... what if Brian Z and Herman Cain traded places????
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NASCAR has spent years making sure everybody knows its competitors are, as it so fondly characterizes, "INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS" - not employees, not players. Now, Brian.... which is it?
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
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JLee.... welcome aboard... I trust I can speak for all of our RacersReunion members when I say we'd love to see any photos you might be able to share.
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
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Jim, I believe Ken posted up above a ways that the man in the photo is/was Mel Joseph, his grandfather.
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
Stock Car Racing History
Ken Adams has posted these two pictures and accompanying captions on the photo site - reposting here also so those following the post will see them:
Here is the photo. I believe this is at H-M, not sure.
Here is the actual invoice fro the #49 Mustang. Note the unit #. I assume the car would have had a serial number plate with the HM-9011-GT on it?
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
Stock Car Racing History
Thank you Ken. Very interesting, enlighteningand historic stuff.
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
Stock Car Racing History
Ken,
I noted in the picture of the Allison Mustang the Rollins Leasing sponsorship and remembered always seeing Rollins Leasing signage and trucks at Dover. I note in one of the Dover Motorsports SEC filings from several years back a number of Rollins family members on the Board of Directors.
What was the relationship between Rollins and Mel Joseph?
The name and age of each of our Directors and each of the nominees, his principal occupation, and the period during which he has served us as a Director are set forth below.
Names of
Nominees
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Principal Occupation(1)
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Service as
Director
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Age
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Class III (Term Expires 2008)
Denis McGlynn President and Chief Executive Officer; President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. 1979 to date 59
Jeffrey W. Rollins Principal, Context Ventures Inc., LLC 1993 to date 40
Kenneth K. Chalmers Former Executive Vice President of Bank of America 2002 to date 75
Names of Directors Whose
Terms Have Not Expired
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Class I (Term Expires 2006)
Henry B. Tippie
Chairman of the Board; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Tippie Services, Inc.; Chairman of the Board, Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. 1996 to date 78
R. Randall Rollins
Chairman of the Board, Rollins, Inc.; Chairman of the Board, RPC, Inc.; Chairman of the Board, Marine Products Corporation 1996 to date 73
Patrick J. Bagley
Senior Vice PresidentFinance and Chief Financial Officer; Former Vice PresidentFinance, Treasurer and Director, Rollins Truck Leasing Corp. 1996 to date 57
Class II (Term Expires 2007)
John W. Rollins, Jr.
Former President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Rollins Truck Leasing Corp. 1996 to date 62
Eugene W. Weaver
Former Senior Vice PresidentAdministration 1971 to date 72
Melvin L. Joseph
Vice President and Director of Auto Racing, Dover International Speedway, Inc.; President, Melvin Joseph Construction Company 1969 to date 83
Bobby Allison '69 Holman Moody Grand American Mustang #49
Stock Car Racing History
FYI, for those who don't know... Melvin Joseph is Mel Joseph of the asphalt business ( but couldn't keep asphalt on his own racetrack!)who built the Dover track - thus the Delaware connection.
For your reading pleasure from Winston Cup Scene:
Dover legend Mel Joseph passes away
Monday, May 02, 2005
Mel Joseph, a former NASCAR team owner who helped build Dover Inter-national Speedway, died April 6 at age 83.
At the time of his death, Joseph was vice president and director of auto racing at Dover. Joseph, whose construction firm helped build the track in the late 1960s, had given the command for drivers to start their engines at every Cup race since the track opened in 1969. In the mid-1990s, he presided over the project that converted the track from asphalt to concrete.
Through the years, Joseph fielded Modified cars for several drivers. He also was a team owner for two Cup races in 1971, and was involved in one of the most controversial races in the sport's history. On Aug. 6, 1971, in a Cup race at Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., NASCAR faced a short field, and allowed smaller Grand American cars to enter the race. Bobby Allison won the event in a Joseph-owned Ford Mustang, yet NASCAR decreed the race had no winner. Allison has never received credit for the win.
"He was a doer, a very positive person. That made me admire him," Allison told The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. "To be his friend, that was a bonus."
An eighth-grade dropout, Joseph was a legendary figure in Delaware, turning a $300 loan from his grandmother into a multimillion dollar fortune. His other interests included horse racing and treasure hunting. In 1985, he and his crew discovered a sunken Spanish galleon in the Florida Keys with a treasure worth millions.