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Shepherd to put team up for sale? When the garage opens at Lucas Oil Raceway this week for what is slated to be the final Nationwide Series race to be held there,#89-Morgan Shepherd will hold a distinction shared by no other driver. Shepherd competed in the first Kroger 200 held at what was Indianapolis Raceway Park back in 1982. In fact . . . he won that race. He has been a part of the series virtually every year since then, but that's something the 69-year old Conover, N.C., driver may not be able to say soon. "It's come to a point that financially we can't buy the tires to be there," Shepherd said on MRN Radio's NASCAR Live broadcast. "We can't pay for the engines. The biggest thing is if we could get somebody to help with engines the rest of the year. We could handle the rest, but if something doesn't happen by the time we go to Canada, we're going to have to put our team up for sale." Shepherd still plans to make the trip to Montreal on August 20. Unless he finds sponsorship help before then, a career that pre-dates the creation of the NASCAR Nationwide Series may come to a close.(Motor Racing Network)(7-27-2011)
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
While it sucks to see these guys get pushed aside, the cold, hard fact is that time marches on. :(
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i agree. i also think someone will step up and help him to keep racing. it's tough to say hang it up morgan when he's done nothing but good for the sport.
 
I figure he wanted to race until his age matched his car number.
 
Stewart Fan said:
Maybe Stewart will help him out. Didn't he buy him some tires once?
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That he did & no offence to MS but hopefully Tony has his priorities somewhere else this weekend. He won his first World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Series race of his career last night. Maybe this is the sign of things to come for him.
 
YO......Kyle Busch....Your currently the reigning AZZCLOWN of NASCRAP....pony up some of the GOLDDIGGERS allowance and give it to ole Morgan.......:D
 
Some of the younger fans don't remember what kind of a racer Morgan was thirty years ago. He is actually tied for the most wins at IRP, ORP and now LOR. Morgan is a class act and has carried the sport well for many years.
 
MELROSEMAFIA said:
YO......Kyle Busch....Your currently the reigning AZZCLOWN of NASCRAP....pony up some of the GOLDDIGGERS allowance and give it to ole Morgan.......:D
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After donating $100,000 to Sam Ard for his serious medical problems, I don't think donating some tires to an old backmarker is very important.....
 
LOL That was a funny exchange.

Seriously, in this economy and the lower church donations, Jesus has decided to sponsor the race at Talladega instead. It will now be known as the "Flip for Jesus 499".
 
FenderBumper said:
LOL That was a funny exchange.

Seriously, in this economy and the lower church donations, Jesus has decided to sponsor the race at Talladega instead. It will now be known as the "Flip for Jesus 499".
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and the Nationwide race will be the "Thanks for my Smoking Hot Wife" 200.
 
I guess the truck race will be Vitamin to Sunday School 150
 
Smoke14 said:
Some of the younger fans don't remember what kind of a racer Morgan was thirty years ago. He is actually tied for the most wins at IRP, ORP and now LOR. Morgan is a class act and has carried the sport well for many years.
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Very true, Morgan was a great driver. I guess he hung around to long, but he isn't the only one.


He will always have my respect, in his prime he was an excellent driver, thanks for the memories MS.
 
Smoke14 said:
Some of the younger fans don't remember what kind of a racer Morgan was thirty years ago. He is actually tied for the most wins at IRP, ORP and now LOR. Morgan is a class act and has carried the sport well for many years.
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I remember watching Morgan wheel a Modified at Stafford and Thompson in Conn. back in the mid 60s and early 70s. He was a great driver, he could wheel a Modified with the best of them, sadly like others have said, there comes a time when you have to hang up the helmet.:(
 
Regardless of age I think it's a shame when a good racer has to hang it up because racing is no longer affordable for them. Remember Juney Donlevy? Man devoted his life to the sport, look at the drivers he took a chance on and where they ended up. He left broke. For all he did for the sport has there been any mention of placing him in the HoF?

Didn't MS run a couple of races in a RCR car recently?
 
SST55 said:
Regardless of age I think it's a shame when a good racer has to hang it up because racing is no longer affordable for them. Remember Juney Donlevy? Man devoted his life to the sport, look at the drivers he took a chance on and where they ended up. He left broke. For all he did for the sport has there been any mention of placing him in the HoF?

Didn't MS run a couple of races in a RCR car recently?
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Yeh I think last year he ran one or two races for RCR.
 
Mopardh9 said:
I remember watching Morgan wheel a Modified at Stafford and Thompson in Conn. back in the mid 60s and early 70s. He was a great driver, he could wheel a Modified with the best of them, sadly like others have said, there comes a time when you have to hang up the helmet.:(
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Very interesting, one my biggest racing disappointments is missing out on the N.E modified scene.

I would have loved watching Desario, Stevens, Flemke, Lenny Bolher (sp?) coupes run in the 60's, and the pinto revolution


As a kid I was forever reading about it in S.Carolina, I read everything about it available, and I remember the day that Evans died in Martinsville.


Thanks for the Morgan S reference, I wasn't aware of his modified success.
 
Some great modified drivers came from below the Mason-Dixon Line. We welcomed and cheered/jeered them all at races held at Victory Speedway in Middletown, NY and the old Nazareth half mile dirt track. The cheers and jeers depending on who you liked better or who did what to who. See, times really haven't changed at all.

Guys like Will Cagle, Rags Carter, Buzzie Reutimann, Rags Carter, Pee Wee Griffith, and the list goes on, traveled north and managed to win more than few races.
But they had plenty of competition from local drivers like Otto Harwi, Jackie McLaughlin, Al Tasnady, Bobby Pickell, and the master of them all, Frankie Schneider.

For those near Phillipsburg-Harmony, NJ, the Warren County Farmers Fair will host a Harmony Speedway Historical Event featuring drivers and cars from back in the day and Frankie Schneider is scheduled to be there.
Here is a bit of nostalgia to stimulate memories from the past. Some great photos.

http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Frankie_Schneider.htm
 
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