Who remembers NASCAR?

[Milkman]

They sure help sell a lot of beer and chicken wings!

WHAT...................they got beer and chicken

 

[lagrangedave]

take a quarter panel...………..

 

[LTZ25]

That was probably the year that I saw Richard Petty at Yellow River Drag Way, at least I think that that was the name. The drag strip had a hump half way down and you could hardly see the finish.

Do you remember when Huston Platt went into the crowd and killed about a dozen ? They later built a trailer park there and the drag strip became the main road in the park .

 

[KyDawg]

I bet the next morning he got an unlisted unpublished phone number.

I would bet he did.

 

[georgia357]

Do you remember when Huston Platt went into the crowd and killed about a dozen ? They later built a trailer park there and the drag strip became the main road in the park .

If I remember right, there were a couple of tragidies at Ga drag strips. Seems like one also went into the stands at Commerce and killed some people. Used to be able to stand right at the track but they moved the stands way away from the cars.

 

[OmenHonkey]

I remember going to AMS as a kid and staying in the pits. The drivers all used the same restroom as the regular folks in the pits. I think i dripped a little p on Elliotts shoe at the ole trough. I couldn't have been more than 8-10 yrs old.

 

[Miguel Cervantes]

1984 IROC

 

[WishboneW]

Used to go to the Southern 500 in Darlington in the early 70’s. Marty Robbins raced there as well Allison, Jr Johnson, and the king

 

[KyDawg]

I remember going to AMS as a kid and staying in the pits. The drivers all used the same restroom as the regular folks in the pits. I think i dripped a little p on Elliotts shoe at the ole trough. I couldn't have been more than 8-10 yrs old.

Just be glad is wasn't Dave Marcis's wingtips.

 

[doublebarrel]

my friend had his little boy on his shoukders at Yellow River and the boy was killed when the accident happened. BlB

 

[KyDawg]

my friend had his little boy on his shoukders at Yellow River and the boy was killed when the accident happened. BlB

That is terrible. Drag racing is a dangerous sport, I have witnessed a couple of bad wrecks, where safety for the spectators, never was considered. People watching a race from ten foot away and not even so much as a guard rail between them and a car running close to 200 MPH.

 

[normaldave]

Richard Petty drag racing tragedy at Southeastern Dragway in Dallas, GA, and later "43 jr" restoration.

Edit: Stories get fuzzy over the years. Petty buried the wrecked car, dug it up later, gave it to a friend, supposedly won't ever be restored.
43jr stories

 

[mguthrie]

Do you remember when Huston Platt went into the crowd and killed about a dozen ? They later built a trailer park there and the drag strip became the main road in the park .

It's still there. It's a camp ground on the side by the river

 

[normaldave]

Yellow River: An Essay

 

[chobrown]

Got to meet Bobby Allison today. Didn’t get to spend a whole lot of time speaking with him but what a cool experience it was. Got me a couple autographs as well.

 

[NE GA Pappy]

Used to go to the Southern 500 in Darlington in the early 70’s. Marty Robbins raced there as well Allison, Jr Johnson, and the king

that was when the back straight now was the front straight then. I remember going to that track a few times. I was standing in line at the concession stand, and a woman came up and hugged my friend and was talking away to him. He later introduced us to Mrs Linda Petty.