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Post by pmossberg on Jan 3, 2010 0:58:09 GMT -5
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Post by apttyfn on Jan 3, 2010 10:27:28 GMT -5
Thanks, good read.
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Post by chilipepper on Jan 3, 2010 12:09:06 GMT -5
Good series. I'd forgotten some of the facts that were in here. Thanks!
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Post by songsmith1950 on Jan 3, 2010 19:54:39 GMT -5
That was great! Finally someone who actually gave Richard his TRUE credit. Thanks for the links, it was wonderful and set me up to watch the 43 again this year for real!
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Post by loanshark on Jan 3, 2010 19:59:24 GMT -5
great reads, thanks for posting!
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Post by pmossberg on Jan 3, 2010 22:24:30 GMT -5
You are quite welcome folks. I'm glad you enjoyed the blog.
I just found the bump-drafts site. I haven't wandered around too much but it looks lilke an interesting place.
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Post by revilo on Jan 3, 2010 22:48:37 GMT -5
That was a great read. The comments posted after the articles were good reading, too. You have my thanks, too, Paul. Coming here every day gets me my racing fix, so keep up the stories folks. Daytona gets closer every day. Cabin fever must be setting in, because I'm ready to go out in the snow and start digging for acorns with Furrd and Furrari. It's kind of cool for that right now with highs in the teens and 25 to 50 mph winds. At least I'm not in Minnesota. How are things in the Great White North?
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Post by pmossberg on Jan 3, 2010 23:15:27 GMT -5
In NJ it's freezing and very high winds. And further north, our New England friends are getting snowed on.
Thankfully, this weekend I've been in Sedona AZ, crystal clear blue skies, almost 60 degrees in the shade...much warmer when you are out in the sun...and t-shirt weather either way. My wife and I have been working on our future retirement home. Closed on a house in October. Only three years old, but needed some minor work, which I've managed to complete in the last three days. Heading back to cold NJ Monday night on a red eye. Ugh.
Now I have to figure out the retirement thing, so I can get out here full time. It will be a while from now...but it can't happen soon enough!
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Post by pb1945 on Jan 4, 2010 0:44:28 GMT -5
Now that was fun to read. Pearson indeed was a heck'of a driver.
It always seemed like it was him or Richard for quite a while.
Poor old DW and Bobby couldn't get enough attention I think Bobby took it way harder than DW. Ole jaws did pretty good later on.
I'm not a Waltrip fan but I have got to give him credit where it's due. He's always given Richard his pops. I think a lot of that respect was Richard as a family man too.
Love to read about RP. ;D
pb ;D
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Post by ricklou on Jan 4, 2010 6:53:49 GMT -5
That is a nice thread Paul. Even with the pundits who downplay Petty's impact there are more that know what he has done for the sport.
It is somewhat ironic that Junior Jonhson and Curtis Turner are considered to this day to be among the best drivers ever and neither one of them won a Grand National Championship in their careers but impacted Nascar in a tremendous way regardless.
Nascar in its' early days was a birth place of many legends and is a big part of what makes Nascar unique.
By the way Paul, tell us what it is like to go through airport security these days ......
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I have Richard petty cars 1/18 1/24 scales! Etc...
