a tale about Harold Fountain
On a friday or saterday night,cant remember which,and it was either in Swainsboro or Dublin Ga,thats a mystery too,Harold parked down on the end next to us and the art of readying the cars for the race was on , and his guys put his up on a jack with the wheels off ground and cranks it up and lets it idle while being in gear,well a local good ole boy comes up with his buddy and asks why in the heck they had the car jacked up like that,now that isnt no coke in the can he is drinking but one of Harolds guys looks at him and says we setting the timing for this track,you see we count the times the tire turns over in a minute then we figure how many seconds it takes to go down straightaway and multiply those two and thats what we set the rpm at--- my dad was there when it was told and i just looked at him and duh --but you know that good ole boy just accepted that answer as gold because it came from Haroldscrew and walked off proud of his new knowledge. now thats priceless-----memories
Great story !Jack
Harold Fountain, what a great, great individual. Of course he is in the Augusta International Speedway "Hall of Fame" and has a dedicated page at the web site so check it out:http://www.augustainternationalraceway.com/HaroldFountain.htmlHenry
Ya old Harold has got some storys when you see him in Augusta ask him about the time he drove the 0 0 car for Thomas Bros Country and got a first class tour of there plant in Ashboro N C that car oner treated him right he thinks not sure
lets see if we can get him to tell about he and john lee running for pres
haha!! he always has an answer for everything.. and even if it is total BS, he never misses a beat.