Does ‘New” Equal “Successful?”
I really am happy that NASCAR seems to be enjoying an uptick in attendance at some tracks this year, but[…]
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Tag: Historic NASCAR
A BRIEF, BUT INTERESTING NASCAR ODYSSEY
I had just read an extremely interesting article at the Race Fans Forever site by PattyKay Lilley on the career[…]
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HIS NAME IS WADDELL WILSON ~ REMEMBER THAT NAME
(Editor’s note: Like me, many of our readers here at Pure Thunder Racing miss our dear friend and colleague PattyKey Lilley.[…]
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Let’s hear it for the little guy
Who doesn’t like to cheer for the underdog? If the answer to that question wasn’t “just about everybody,” why would[…]
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Paper Clip Memories
Everybody remembers the trains, and I do, too. There was just something about watching a really good stock car race[…]
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Richard Petty and Me, Chapter 4″The Year of The Thumpers”
To begin this chapter, I need to point out that attendance and short track races with my Uncle Bobby and[…]
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Richard Petty and Me, Chapter 3 “The Year of Progress, Albeit Slow”
The news of the convertible division didn’t normally make out local newspaper, but we were able to find out Richard[…]
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Richard Petty and Me, Chapter Two/The U.S. Army gets involved.
My memory of the Draft taking Bobby away is limited at best. I was just 8 years old when Bobby[…]
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Richard Petty and Me
I considered, only for a moment, entitling this story “The King and I”. Unfortunately, that title had already been taken[…]
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Stuck in the past . . . and happy
My mind can take me down some pretty twisty rabbit holes, given half the chance. Here’s how one of them[…]
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