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- 46HudsonPU July 2009
- hdsn49 July 2009
- hudsontech July 2009
- Park_W July 2009
NASCAR hall of fame
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NASCAR is having online voting for their hall of fame. Marshall Teague is not even listed! ( Can we write him in?)
Herb Thomas is on the list.
Go to NASCAR.com/hall to vote.
Don't let them forget the Hudson Hornet! -
Voting is not open yet... Click on the link below, and enter your email address in to be notified when voting opens -
http://www.nascar.com/promos/hof/ -
I watched the TV show the other night - it was nice to note they included Ray Parks, Red Vogt, Red Byron and some of the others of the "other" NASCAR. Bill Elliott was one of the Dawsonville, GA, bunch that could trace it's roots back to moonshine running.
Ray Parks, out of Atlanta, had a pretty good bunch running race cars - most of the drivers were ex-moonshine runners. Again, Bill France steamrollered the competition out of the running, just like AAA, by threatening to ban NASCAR drivers if they ran other venues, like AAA.
An excellent book about Parks involvement is "Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR - Driving with the Devil", by Neal Thompson. This is a 'must read' if you're a NASCAR fan.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
"Don't let them forget the Hudson Hornet!"
Not to worry. The folks working on exhibits are very familiar with the Hornet era, and have told me it'll be well represented. They've arranged for Jack Miller's actual Herb Thomas '52 Hornet race car to be on exhibit for the first several months. I've been in touch with these folks for quite some time. One of them, Buz McKim, lives here in Rock Hill and was NASCAR's statistician for decades. He knew Marshall Teague, Smokey Yunick and all the rest. Not long ago he spent a Saturday afternoon here at our home, looking at our '47 Commodore and '51 Hornet and talking Hudsons. An interesting note ... they've looked high and wide for any surviving car that actually ran in the first NASCAR race, which was at Charlotte in early 1949. They've found just one, and it's a '46 Hudson sedan! They're in the process of trying to acquire it, so we may see it as part of an exhibit on NASCAR's beginnings.
