End Of A NASCAR Era

[Ron61]

Yea, it really tells my age when I miss the Pettys, Earnhearts, Pearson, Ned Jarrett, Buddy Baker and the rest that drove actual cars made by the car companies. I like the shows where they have a bunch of the old drivers sitting around talking about when they were driving.
One of my favorites is Ned Jarrett telling about buying a new 1957 Ford to race at Daytona, but he never had enough money to cover the check so he wrote it late Friday afternoon so they couldn't get it to the bank. Then he took the car to Daytona and he had to win both races to have the money to cover the check. One of his crew wrapped the steering wheel with friction tape and did it the wrong way. He won the first race but his hands were cut so bad they had to take him to a hospital and have them stitched up. He said he didn't know what to do as he couldn't drive, and I believe it was Buddy Baker that told him he would drive the car and he won the 2nd race, so Ned raced back home and was at the bank when it opened Monday morning to deposit the money to cover that check. And Dale Earnheart telling how he used to hide in the trunk of his race car so the people he owed money to couldn't find him.


Ron