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FYI
NASCAR Press release today..
www.nascar.com/.../2013/01/28herb-thomas-wanted-to-win.htmi
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/01/28/herb-thomas-wanted-to-win.html

Induction Ceremony will be on SPEED TV Friday 2/8 starting @ 6:30pm

brumac

Very happy to hear that Herb finally got in. He has long deserved this honor.
Bruce

SuperDave

I am old enough to have actually been at the tracks and seen Herb in action. A well deserved award..Too bad he won't be there. RIP

hudsontech

Cotton Owens is another who earned his place in the HOF. I remember a story Richard Petty related in an interview. Seems Cotton brought this Dodge to the track - back in the day when the cars actually looked like what was on the street. Everybody agreed it just didn't look right - and it out ran everything on the track. The answer came when NASCAR put the templates on it - as Richard said "He could have run that car thru the templates wide open and not touch a one!!" What Cotton had done was to build a car 7/8ths the size of a normal stocker. Not as much fun now-a-days since NASCAR has rule booked all the initiative out of the sport. But then again there aren't any mechanics the like of Smoky Yunic, Cotton Owens and Red Vogt

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

1951hornethardtop

Good news about Herb. A interesting sidenote. Someime ago there was a discussion about mirrors for Hudsons from the factory or after market. The mirror on Herbs car is exactly like the ones I have and cant find that were in Hudson boxes.

SuperDave

Yep, I saw that and saved the picture for future projects.

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