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Topic: Have you seen this old WoO from Knoxville?
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June 22, 2011 at
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This is why Brian26 and I try to collect this stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TgwogxXrM&feature=player_embedded
David Smith Jr.
www.oklahomatidbits.com
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June 22, 2011 at
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awesome.... thank you.
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June 22, 2011 at
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Thank you. Remember where you came from or lose all hope.
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June 23, 2011 at
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Cool. I never realized WoO ever ran non-wing. Planning to see some Non wingers at Knoxville later this summer
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June 23, 2011 at
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This message was edited on
June 23, 2011 at
01:29:09 PM by Team "W" Motorsports
Thats not just a WoO race, thats the 79 nats.
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June 23, 2011 at
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Knoxville stopped regular non-wing racing when Gary Scott was killed on May 1, 1982.
I believe USAC and midget shows were about the only non-wing shows since.
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June 23, 2011 at
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Great stuff! Keep up the good work!
Interesting to note the photogs practically on the track, and the fuel spill in the one crash. We have made a LOT of safety progress. (catch fence looks a little light, too!)
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June 23, 2011 at
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Posted By: PorschePeteTx on June 23 2011 at 03:52:32 PM
Knoxville stopped regular non-wing racing when Gary Scott was killed on May 1, 1982.
I believe USAC and midget shows were about the only non-wing shows since.
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I believe the best wingless race was when SCRA came to Knoxville
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June 23, 2011 at
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Very very cool for a 20 something year old like me to watch that video! Thanks!!
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June 23, 2011 at
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No money in this fer me.
However , subscribe to the 'vintagesupermodified' page on youtube and you'll be getting vids from us.
We have close to 320 vids up already , with no end in sight at the moment.
Here's my link
http://www.youtube.com/user/vintagesupermodified?feature=mhee
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June 23, 2011 at
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They had Hog nuts back then!
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June 24, 2011 at
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Great stuff!!!! As someone that didn't grow up in Knoxville I've been very interested in the history and if anyone has old movies of the races. BTW does anyone know who the flagman and track announcers were that year?
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June 27, 2011 at
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Great video! Thanks a lot.
That was back when cars could be drastically different from each other and the races could be as exciting as they could possibly get. I'm a bit younger than that era, but I miss the days where you could see drivers start on the back row and win it... and it didn't have to be a dry slick track to do it (Brad Doty in 87? and Wolfgang in the '88 Nationals come to mind). Cars were basically carved out of steel and a lot more durable too- which made them weigh twice as much as they do now!
Makes you really respect the guys that were (and still are) out there doing it.
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June 27, 2011 at
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June 27, 2011 at
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Posted By: PorschePeteTx on June 23 2011 at 03:52:32 PM
Knoxville stopped regular non-wing racing when Gary Scott was killed on May 1, 1982.
I believe USAC and midget shows were about the only non-wing shows since.
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Ascot and Manzy had alway's ran non wing's almost exclusively, and AZ and Southern Cali still are non wing county. In fact here in AZ we have the only non wing ASCS regional series....period!
You could throw N.M in there too. The NMMRA is one of the oldest non winged groupes with 50+ years I believe, and still going! http://www.nmmra.com/schedule.php
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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June 27, 2011 at
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Not that long ago at Manzy, in 2007..... They were getting it done, and the right way on the big bad 1/2 mile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZqGbrj87Jk
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June 27, 2011 at
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Posted By: BigGMan on June 23 2011 at 07:36:21 PM
Great stuff! Keep up the good work!
Interesting to note the photogs practically on the track, and the fuel spill in the one crash. We have made a LOT of safety progress. (catch fence looks a little light, too!)
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GOOD STUFF GREAT MEMORYS
I MIGHT BE ONE OF THOSE GUYS NEXT TO THE TRACK DOWN IN TURN 1
WE WERE THERE 76,77,78,79 WE RAN A OLD 'BECK' SPRING FRONT CAR
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June 27, 2011 at
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Gotta love that shot of "Lil' Shu" at the beginning.
CRA never ran with wings, nor the SCRA. NARC was non wing until the early eighties. I beleive that it was the deat of Gary Patterson that got them to strap the wings on.
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June 27, 2011 at
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best thing on here in long time thanks
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June 27, 2011 at
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This message was edited on
June 27, 2011 at
08:34:37 PM by Team "W" Motorsports
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Posted By: pitguy14 on June 24 2011 at 10:44:15 AM
Great stuff!!!! As someone that didn't grow up in Knoxville I've been very interested in the history and if anyone has old movies of the races. BTW does anyone know who the flagman and track announcers were that year?
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The announcer in the video was the late Jack Miller.
Not positive on the flagman, 1979 was the year Duane Stoneking lost his life in a crash earlier that season (July?) that took down the flagstand, seriously injurying the then flagman, former racer Gary Johnson.
I think the flagman that took over was Gail Miller, but not positive. From watching this clip, it appears that the "helper" on the flagstand might have been
P. Ray Grimes.
Brings back alot of memories.
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June 27, 2011 at
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Once I get with Brian26 (as I am still internet/technical stupid after all these years) and give him the tape you will be able to watch the "Sunday night" 1982 non-wing Knoxville Nationals as well. The video is not professionally produced but enough to where you know what is going on. And yes the finale crash is caught on tape from the grandstands.
David Smith Jr.
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