Joe, good deal on the pictures. Can't wait to see them. I have a few around here of my old purple fish I might try and sneak in here.
My racing experience was "low budget" and in two years I only won 2 races, and both of those were because the other guys blew engines :-)
I built my own car from the ground up......including 3 engines, one tranny, 4...yes 4 rear ends. Just as I was getting the hang of all this the wife decided to start having babies.
I still get to go to Bristol every once in a while but thats about as close as I get to a track now. Back in the late 90's I was at Bristol, eating a hotdog with my then 4 year old son. My son dropped his icecream on the ground and started crying. Big Daddy Don walked up out of the clear blue and and handed my son a brand new cup of ice cream and spent the next 45 minutes talking to me like I was his long lost buddy. Talk about a good day......
Hermon
BTW, I was at Bristol when Shirley Muldowny broke the 300 mph mark snatching the new trak record back in the 90's. Right after the race I went to her pit while the crew were breaking down her engine. My wife and I were standing there and Shirley picked up a "cooled down" and cleaned up rod from that engine, signed it and handed it to my wife. Pretty cool.