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Welding man

Welding man

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David Pearson, legendary Nascar driver for the Woods Brothers from Stuart VA passed away yesterday at the age of 83. He won 105 races. Back when he and Richard Petty were racing door post to door post, that was racing. Today Nascar is all about the sponsors and the publicity. I never watch it anymore.
 

That 21 purolator car was the best looking paint scheme ever in my book....

R.I.P. David Person...

I still have the fever all my Sundays are booked at this time a Joe Gibbs, Kyle Busch fan are anyone that drives the 18 :)....
 
Agreed, Welding man.

NASCAR was once auto racing but it has morphed into slot car racing.

I have absolutely no interest and haven't for decades.

Dean
 
I never got the NASCAR bug,, a lot of my friends still have it,,I could never see watching a bunch of cars making Left hand turns all day...We jokingly call it "N"one "A"thletic "S"ports "C"entered "A"round "R"ednecks... and there is a lot of money mixed into it..
 
Its been in my backyard all my life being born and raised in Charlotte NC. Petty ,Person, Cale Yarborough were always the fan favorites back in the day. Till of coarse the number 3 showed up then all heck broke loose. Dale was a great driver and a good new face for the sport but after the crash to me Nascar just Died . Jr did pretty good for a short bit but just didn't have the drive his Dad had. Dales wife bought Pops house on Lake Norman in Denver NC . She don't have anything to do with Nascar now. She has a Airplane business she owns about 5 Jets. All are about 30 to 50 seat Jets. One of her pilots works part time where i work part time in construction . We are friends of the owner of the company kinda how we both ended up there as part timmers.
 
I enjoyed racing and we listened to it on the radio back in the day.
Lost interest when Fireball Roberts died. Tells how old I am.
Big racing got its start with the old ridge runners hauling moonshine in the hills around here.
Richard in NW SC
 
Funny, I responded to the listing before I dropped down and read the replies. Had I done that I would have tagged onto your posting. You're showing your age sir. Grin.
 
Mark, I would have been in grade 8 when that movie was released. We took the bus home, good thing .... had someone had a car we might have done something stupid. Mitchum starred in another movie in 1954, River of No Return (with Marilyn Monroe). A lot of the scenes were filmed west of here in Alberta .... Banff and Jasper National Parks. If a guy watched those movies now they would seem pretty corny I think. Mind you, they're better than the trash offered today.

I think NASCAR cars in those days were essentially "stock" cars with some modifications and fine tuning, etc. What you see to day isn't in any way close to what you see on the car lots, as a matter of fact I think even different NASCAR car brands are much the same cars with the same specs, etc.
 
You are correct about stock cars. The Woods Brothers said they knew they were into racing to stay when they won enough prize money the year before to be able to go down to the local Ford dealer and buy a new car and take it back to the shop and cut it up for a race car.
 
Pearson was one of my favorites.

I remember one time they red-flagged a race for a half hour while they welded in a new section of guard rail. David went on to win the race. In a post-race interview, someone asked him if the delay in the race helped him or hurt him.

He replied, "It helped me. I had to go to the bathroom".

I never watch NASCAR any more. It's morphed from racing to follow the leader.
 
i used to keep up and watch it back in the 1980's

now it is just NA_CAR nothing stock about it so take the S out.

all the cars are the same and so regulated/restricted it just not the same. used to be you had to have a good car and driver. now all the cars are the same. kinka like IROC was.

i'd rather watch sprints on dirt. the "pure stocks" on dirt were always interesting. not sure if any tracks still run them.
 
Well I watch it. Both Xfinity and Cup. The young 20's talent coming in from dirt track is amazing. I watch the trucks also when it works out so I can. Some tracks they are running 200 MPH in the cup at over for 400 to 500 miles. Some races do become a little boring when one car dominates all three stages. Most have some real door to door racing. Restarts have a lot of excitement. Homestead this coming weekend and it is over for the year. I am more of a talent fan than an individual driver fan.
 
He farmed, I believe that his family were dairy farmers in Scotland. I've watched a couple of show's about him and when he could get away from the F1 circus that was where he would go, back to the farm, smart man.
 
This from the book "Jim Clark".
Edington Mains covered 1,240 acres with a further 200 of woodland. It had between 700 and 800 breeding ewes, three pedigree flocks; Oxford Downs, Suffolk Downs and Border Leicesters, and fattened around 500 cattle a year for sale in local markets. There were usually about 500 acres under the plough, on which the Clarks grew barley, wheat, oats, potatoes, and turnips.
 
Thanks for posting that Duner, I've seen a couple of old videos with Clark at the farm, looks like classic Scotland, neat place. He was such a quiet mild mannered guy behind the wheel of a racecar he was a technical artist, very easy on his equipment. Colin Chapman thought of him as one of his own sons.
 
Wish they would go back to stock bodied cars. I've raced some at local dirt tracks over the years. Much better view from behind the wheel than in front of the TV.

Outfit I work for now does mechanical contracting for Big Giant Corporation. Big Giant Corporation has major sponsorship deal in NASCAR. In the cafeteria is one of the retired cars on display with the hood up for everyone to look at. They should call it the National Association for Hand Built from Scratch Auto Racing; NAHBSAR
 
I usually spell it NA$CAR. Went to the Firecracker race in '68. Also went to one of the NA$CAR races at Texas World Speedway at College Station, Texas.
 
TIM - I was a BIG Nascar fan back in the early 1980's, went to the races at Michigan Int'l Speedway in Brooklyn from '86 to '88. To put the "Money" into perspective, ONE top Formula 1 race team, like Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, spends enough money running a 18-19 race world-wide race calender to fund ALL 43 NASCAR race teams for an entire year of racing. I don't watch Nascar at all anymore.

Back around the mid to late 1990's when Speed TV started televising F-1 races I stopped watching Nascar and became an F-1 fan. SON and I went to all eight GP's at Indy. Even the 2005 race where 14 Michelin shod cars parked in their garages after the parade lap due to tire problems and We watched six Bridgestone cars run hot laps, where Michael Schumacher eventually won. A week later I went to pickup my new Volvo car, it had Michelin tires on it, I told the sales lady to get those tires off my new car. She thought I was kidding. I wasn't. She told me it would cost $500 to change the tires/wheels. I don't negotiate with crazy people!
 
Pearson won a higher percentage of the races he entered than did Petty. Pearson just never ran a full season.
Darrell Waltrip told story one time he and Pearson were racing for the win and DW pitted and said he was completely worn out and looked over at Pearson who had pitted and he was sitting there calmly smoking a cigarette as if he had no care in the world. Waltrip said he realized then he was going to lose and he did. Back in the day Pearson was considered the best driver on the circuit, nerves of steel. I grew up watching NASCAR but haven't since Johnson won 5 straight.
 
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