@dave-fulton10 years ago OMG!!! And all this time I thought you were my buddy, Chase! INEVERexpected this particular picture to resurface! I used to claim that Kyle kissed first and I just reciprocated. Then I watched a VHS tape of the unedited direct WTBS satellite feed sent to me in Dallas byDick Cobb, the CITGO Marketing Manager in Tulsa. ItAPPEARSto show me planting the first kiss.... but KP quickly kissed back and added a hug. Believe me, I was not trying to be Richard's Andy G to Kyle. KP would be quick to admit that no two people on the face of the earth were more surprised to be standing together in a NASCAR Winner's Circle at that moment than the two of us. You better get Legend to watch your back, Chase. Paybacks are heck!!! Can I claim I was whispering in Kyle's ear?
@tmc-chase10 years ago
Dave: "Psst Kyle. Get this. I was just told with this win you get a lifetime of Big Gulps at any 7-Eleven."Kyle: "Ugh. I thought this race was sponsored by Miller."
@dave-fulton10 years ago
Important to note that not only was this Kyle's first (and only) Cup win for 7-Eleven, as well as his first for the Wood Brothers, it was his FIRST Winston Cup win period... a very special moment... at a track where both his father, Richard and grandfather, Lee had won. Richmond remains the only venue where three generations from the same family have visited Cup victory lane. That was the winning car sponsor trophy we were holding. I still have it and have previously posted a color photo of it after Kyle signed it. Kyle was a delight to work with. Extremely polite and cooperative, just like his father.
@dave-fulton7 years ago
And now 31 years have passed (2017) since that cold February 23, 1986 afternoon in Richmond when Kyle Petty became the first and only 3rd generation NASCAR driver to win a Cup race where both his father and grandfather before him had won.
OMG!!! And all this time I thought you were my buddy, Chase! INEVERexpected this particular picture to resurface! I used to claim that Kyle kissed first and I just reciprocated. Then I watched a VHS tape of the unedited direct WTBS satellite feed sent to me in Dallas byDick Cobb, the CITGO Marketing Manager in Tulsa. ItAPPEARSto show me planting the first kiss.... but KP quickly kissed back and added a hug. Believe me, I was not trying to be Richard's Andy G to Kyle. KP would be quick to admit that no two people on the face of the earth were more surprised to be standing together in a NASCAR Winner's Circle at that moment than the two of us. You better get Legend to watch your back, Chase. Paybacks are heck!!! Can I claim I was whispering in Kyle's ear?
Dave: "Psst Kyle. Get this. I was just told with this win you get a lifetime of Big Gulps at any 7-Eleven."Kyle: "Ugh. I thought this race was sponsored by Miller."
Important to note that not only was this Kyle's first (and only) Cup win for 7-Eleven, as well as his first for the Wood Brothers, it was his FIRST Winston Cup win period... a very special moment... at a track where both his father, Richard and grandfather, Lee had won. Richmond remains the only venue where three generations from the same family have visited Cup victory lane. That was the winning car sponsor trophy we were holding. I still have it and have previously posted a color photo of it after Kyle signed it. Kyle was a delight to work with. Extremely polite and cooperative, just like his father.
And now 31 years have passed (2017) since that cold February 23, 1986 afternoon in Richmond when Kyle Petty became the first and only 3rd generation NASCAR driver to win a Cup race where both his father and grandfather before him had won.