2024 Daytona 500 Countdown

[sdj]

Just Gorgeous!

 

[Pat]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[DIDIT]

'57 Vette

 

[Greg]

Petty and Beaucamp over the wall at Daytona.
David Hobbs driver #73 for 1973 Indianapolis 500.
I think the two dirt modified cars were driven by Gary Balough

 

[pjmolo]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[Pat]

 

[Dwayne]

 

[wi_racefan]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[DIDIT]

 

[Greg]

Ruchie Evans Daytina modified car
The solid black car is Neil Bonnett
The two camaros are Junior Hanley

 

[Greg]

^ Benny Parsons

 

[pjmolo]

 

[Formerjackman]

Peak athlete
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Embarrassed to say I was mistaken for him once.

 

[Dwayne]

 

[Pat]

 

[StandOnIt]

Milwaukee Mile '46

 

[DIDIT]

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This is who I think of any time I see or hear #71!

 

[DIDIT]

 

[pjmolo]

 

[Greg]

 

[Greg]

These Greg Porter Chevelle photos are a vintage race car. But he actually raced a Hobby class car just like this one in the late 1970's at Greenville Pickens Speedway (it may be the original car but I am not sure of that part).

 

[Greg]

The Driver for the Nova is a young Morgan Shepard
# 711 posted for day #71.

 

[StandOnIt]

Let's not forget Buddy

 

[Greg]

Donnie Bishop ran many years at GPS. He became my favorite when he raced the Novas in the mid 1970s. If I had to pick a driver that I rooted for the most and the longest it would be him. My all time favorite.

Note the driver in one of the pit photos is Butch Lindley, I am unsure of all the details but that is more of a one off deal.

 

[Dwayne]

 

[Pat]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[pjmolo]

 

[DIDIT]

Yep, another Big Dave picture in the countdown.

 

[Greg]

 

[Dwayne]

 

[StandOnIt]

Southern 500 1952

1st Daytona grid 1959

 

[Pat]

 

[pjmolo]

 

[wi_racefan]

 

[sdj]

The men that drove these needed wheel barrows to haul their cajones around in!.

 

[sdj]