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March 07, 2024 at
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Posted By: HoldenCaulfield on March 07 2024 at 08:24:54 PM
Before corporate sprint car racing took hold, tracks would give these guys(big name drivers) "show up money".
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So, they were Hired Guns?
When I was kid, the out of town racers were referred to as Foreign Iron.
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March 08, 2024 at
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March 11, 2024 at
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Posted By: Murphy on March 07 2024 at 12:50:33 PM
Trouble is, some fella glommed onto the outlaw name decades ago for marketing a corprate sprint car series. 
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Waylon and Willie and the Outlaw Country genre was big at the time. It makes sense considering that Ted started the Outlaws in 1978.
Stan Meissner
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