Forum Activity for @dave-fulton

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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If your "buddies " decorate your brand new honeymoon getaway vehicle by writing your race car sponsor's name on the rear quarter panels with CloseUp toothpaste and permanently etching the paint, you must:

1) Be A Race Fan

2) Be A Redneck

3) HaveIdiots for Buddies

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Dave's brand new '73 Monte Carlo Honeymoon Getaway Vehicle - Note "DIXIE SUPPLY" on the quarter panel

Our 1955 Chevy Limited Sportsman at Wilson County Speedway with Driver/Owner Danny Lee at the wheel - Note "DIXIE SUPPLY" on the quarter panel ( Photo by Tim Hamm from his RR photo page)

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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Looks like Chubby had the pole.

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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They had a BIG water tanker at Wilson and plenty of calcium chloride. I did take my future wife, Joyceto Chantilly Speedway at Weldon, NC (Roanoke Rapids) on Labor Day night 1973 - the night I proposed. Does that count?! Joe Huss won and Danny Lee broke an axle in our car.

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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Jim, just found this race results. Exactly 38 years ago this past weekend - November 4, 1973 -SC's Junior Johnson ran 2nd at Wilson County Speedway in the prestigious season ending Southern Late Model 200. I was on my honeymoon, having been married the day before and missed the race!

Southern 200

Late Model Sportsman race
Wilson Speedway, Wilson, NC
November 4, 1973
200 laps on 0.5 mile dirt oval; 100 miles

Fin St Driver # Owner Car Laps Money Status Laps Led
1 Joe Lane 200 2,000
2 Junior Johnson 199
3 Craven Kiker
4 Dennis Smith
5 Roger Matthews
6 Bud Elliott
7 1 Chubby Thompkins
8 Red Justice
9 Sam Ard
10 Sherrill Tyndall
11 Tommy Smith
12 Glen McDuffie
13 Bill Bridges
14 Shelton McNair
15 Danny Parker
16 Dan Pitner
17 Wayne Jordan
18 Max Dill
19 Hop Holmes
20 Mutt Powell 103 accident
21 Don Macon
22 E.C. Johnson
23 Glenn Simpkins
24 Carl Briggs
25 Carl Horton
26 J.E. Beard
27 Mac Mangum
28 Wallace Smith
29 Max Hyatt

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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Your theory is sure true, Jim. The SC Junior Johnson, who recently passed away, was the father of Slick Johnson who was killed at Daytona. Both used to race regularly with Jimmy Hatchell out of the Florence, SC area at Wilson County Speedway and were all ferocious dirt competitors. It used to be, as you illustrate, that when you had a big race with a good purse, you might be very pleasantly surprised at the talent that showed up to compete.

You won't see Jimmie Johnson at Hometown Raceway, USA

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Nice to hear of Kenny's Elm City success. If I remember correctly, the Upchurch family - Milton, Edward, et al, who used to all run at the now defunct Wilson County Speedway, a few miles further down U.S. 301 from Elm City (former home of the famed Southern 500 Truck Stop) built the County Line facility.

A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday

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It was the first time I had met Gene. Can see why you would enjoy his company.

A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday

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It was my pleasure. I laughed so hard talking to Gene Hobby when he said Frank Craig always blamed him for spilling his snow cone on his shirt when Gene did his famous 1965 Occoneechee flip that I remembered so well from the photo sequence in my Southern MotorSports Journal. Every single person I met at Occoneechee was a nice one.

A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday

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We are holding our breath to see your pix, Ray!

A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday

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Dennis, my loss not to have seen you or Jim Wilmore. Again, I hope next time, someplace, we'll meet. Thanks for answering Bopper's suspension question. I'm the guy who dropped a screw in his distributor the last time I tried to change points in 1974. I learned an expensive lesson! Let somebody who knows what they're doing do it (or in this case, answer it). I remember the Troyer mod and Joe Kelly interviewing out on the track.