The 1st time I got to meet Richard Was at Daytona. They didn't finish well that day. I took a Polaroid photo of him at the foot of a ramp truck. Started walking away and he hollered at me. Thought I was in trouble for something but Richard says hey you want me to sign that! As a kid you don't forget someone doing nice things like that.
In 1971 I was a crew member on the 16 Chevelle owned by Ken Spikes. We were at Daytona checking in for the Firecracker 500. Everyone was pulling race cars on “lube rack” style open trailers or slant bed 1 ton trucks. Everyone is standing around the NASCAR office waiting their turn when the Pettys rolled up with a semi truck and trailer hauling the Superbirds for Richard an Pete Hamilton. Suddenly the only thing on everyone’s mind was My God, that thing has a diesel engine!
As a trucker, thanks for sharing those stories. I worked for Greensboro Trailer for several years. Greensboro Trailer, as I was told, built the first semi trailer for Richard Petty. Bob Barnes, who worked for Greensboro Trailer for 49 years until he retired, still had the original blueprints for the trailer. It was basically built from scratch. I haven't talked to him in several years, but he had mentioned possibly donating those blueprints to the Petty Museum, if he hasn't already. And, BTW, I heard a reference to Reid's Trailer. My dad worked for them as a welder when I was a kid (I'm 47 now). Good people. God bless y'all!
I follow you boys and had to comment on a few things about race car towing. My dad was George. Anyway, I began my 30+ year racing career at Flatrock Speedway in 1984. Like most youngsters that grew up in a racing family, I was a 3rd generation driver that grew up playing in wrecking yards. I won some championships. I have somewhere around 100 wins on dirt and paved tracks. My first race was the first ever 1984 Enduro 250 at Flatrock Speedway, $1,000.00 to win. We towed the race car to the speedway with a 1973 Dodge 3/4 ton pickup. The truck broke and fortunately my best friend and mechanic thought ahead enough to bring a tow chain. We ended up towing the truck with the race car for the final mile or so. Ended up finishing 15th out of 75 cars entered that day. As my money got better we bought an open trailer to travel to Toledo and South ending up in Florida. As I got older I purchased a Hallmark 24' enclosed trailer. When I had to retire about 2013 due to poor eyesight and various other injuries we had a 24' enclosed trailer with a picture window. It was a used Penske show car trailer, so when we stopped for fuel people could see the race car. Fortunately the track officials never looked inside as there were about 7 or 8 of my grand kids from 3 to 13 yrs. old. Way too young to get into the pits hiding under sleeping bags, it was a 200 mile trip each way. So they came prepared for the late and cold trip home to Belleville, MI. LOL
Love hearing all the stories . I grew up watching your uncle race . I was watching the king in the early 70's and while playing with my AFX 43 Petty blue 71 Plymouth Satilite slot car . I had 43 decals on my bicylces front and rear reflectors i got out of MPC Petty 1.25 scale models . Im totally down on the trucking part . Loved watching the show Moving On with Claude Akins . My brother starting driving 18 wheelers around 79 . He showed up one summer afternoon in 1980 driving a Mack cabover with box trailer and took me to turn it around in our housing development. I really loved riding in any semi . My mothers brother drove for Smith's Transportation in the 60's and 70's . He freaked when my mother told him i wanted to drive a truck . He said no not the life you want . It killed him from a heart attack in 76 .
The remarks they made around the 12:00 minute mark says it all about NASCAR today. They mentioned they haven't been to a race track in 10 years. When a Petty says that you know NASCAR is hurting. Hats off to the Petty family for making NASCAR what it was back in the day along with all the other greats.
My first ‘introduction’ to Petty Racing was in 1964 at the Asheville-Weaverville (NC) Speedway. Saw Richard go head on into a wall, while sitting 0:34 on a red clay bank, drinking cold beer and leaving the race covered in red clay dust. I was staying in a motor court at the edge of town across from another motor court that had the Petty hauler…a Dodge, I recall, flatbed truck that hauled the race car. I became a Winston Cup fan from then on.
2001 Daytona, I remember watching 2 Freightliner mechanics overhaul a Detroit in one of Petty’s haulers. They had to do it at the track because they couldn’t get the truck out until. We visited with them about everyday, checking on their progress. Almost as interesting as all the racing for me.😂
I remember my first cup race was at Dover! The first hauler to arrive was Richard Petty's #43! Probably 1982 or 3! I was astonished, we went over an walked around it, amazed at how bright and shiny it was! As a 12 year old I was amazed! Then I was hooked on Nascar racing!
The tow rig @3:09 really jogged my old memory. Because,i'm almost positive i remember (as a kid) the #43 Plymouth coming thru the pit gate being pulled by that pickup. The "43" was just hand drawn outline on the doors but "The King" set fast time & won that night,Aug. 8,1962, Huntsville Speedway (Alabama), my home track.
Back in the 70s, I was a crew member and remember one ride home from Michigan where our truck started blowing a head gasket about 250 miles from home, sometime before daylight. We had to stop and fill it up with water about every 15 minutes and managed to get about 70 miles from home before the motor locked up. Fortunately, it locked up in front of the shop of a friend of ours and by now it was nearly noon, Monday. We called a guy to come tow us the rest of the way home and seems like we got home about 24 hours after we left Michigan.......and it was summer time and hotter'n blazes to boot. I wonder how many of the kids racing today ever went through anything like that?
great video...if you look at the picture at about the 3:09 point you can see what looks like perhaps the tail lights off the 62 plymouth mounted on the homemade trailer. It also looks like the tail lights from a 59 oldsmobile mounted on the back of the cabinet on the chivalay pick-up truck. Its pretty neat how they didn't waste much of anything to make what they needed back then
That box cabover in the video I had. .. I HAD THE ROY HILL RAMP TRUCK A 81 CABOVER KW THAT CAME FROM THE PETTYS. I REDID THE REAR DOOR TO DO AWAY WITH THE RAMPS . I HAULED MY DIRT LATEMODEL IN IT ON THE FASTRAK TOUR IN THE 05 TO 09 SEASON'S IN THE MIDWEST AND WENT TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHTS IN SMOKEY MT SPEEDWAY AND BULLS GAP. WITH IT I LIVED THAT TRUCK BUT I LATER DOWN SIZED TO ENCLOSED AND DAULLY. IT WAS GETTING TO HARD FOR ME TO GET IN AND OUT BECAUSE OF MY BAD LEG I STILL GOT PICTURES OF IT. AND DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO GO THRU THE TRUCK NOT TO DO THE MOTOR AND TRANSMISSION BUT THE BODY NEEDED BE WORKED ON INTERIOR AND WIRING..IF THAT THING WOULD HAVE HAD 2 SPEED REAREND IT WOULD HAVE RUN A 150 MPH FULLY LOADED. BUT WAS GEARED FOR THE 55 MPH. SPEED LIMITS.
My first toolbox was a bread crate....57 Crown Vic 300 motor BorgWarner T10.....Joe Childress sold me a franklin QC rearend. Charlie Pierce would haul me to the track. I lived on the Thomasville side of Randolph county.
And yet again, another great episode, guys. Like you was saying, the haulers sure have evolved. It isn’t any different on our local dirt track scene here in upstate NY. The bare bones open hauler days gave way to enclosed haulers and now, we have many teams running 18 wheelers . I’ve been following auto racing since 1978, and boy the changes I’ve seen in 45 of my 50 years of living!
I’m right by Stateline speedway and the variation is insane. Some of the challenger guys just drive their cars, then there’s still tow bar guys. You got your open trailers with and without the tire racks, the career contractors with their smaller closed haulers. All the way up to the bigger regional late model guys coming in their modern nascar style haulers. Gotta get there early with pit passes it’s damn amazing.
I am 66 years old. Some of my family use to race. I was just a kid back then. I also loved them 18 wheels. Any how I got to live my dream. I got to do a bit of both. Racing and trucking go hand in hand....Thank You guys for this video brought back a lot of memories.
NASCAR should have a throw back race where they have to pull with a truck and an open trailer and only bring what they can fit in the truck, could be good for the manufactures seeing their trucks towing the car, who can fit the most in it to take to the track. Just a thought
Just found your channel, and am soaking it in! I was a huge Nascar fan up until restrictor plates, and when they kicked the old guard to the curb to yuppify it. We were at Daytona when The King's car spiraled against the fence. I remember watching the driveshaft turning as it whirred on by, and the terrible thump when he got hit afterwards. On a lighter note, we were at Pocono when he officiated or attended a couple's wedding on the back of a rollback. Couldn't hardly see it because the fog was so thick. Typical Pocono.
I just came across this channel don’t know y’all yet but the gentleman in the red ball cap reminds me so much of James Hylton and the guys that’d help ole James out every week. I used to wrench on an ARCA car and James was a huge asset and friend to our small team. Many of these stories I could hear JH saying. Great stuff 😊
when I was a tanager my mother would drop me off at the old Richmond fairgrounds raceway 1/2 mile track probably around 1970 & that's how they hauled the cars on a open trailer with a canvas over the cars .
Mark Twain ain't got nothing on you guys.Your stories are so interesting and you tell them well.Always look forward to hearing and seeing the Petty Brothers Racing Show.What amazes me to this day is how seemingly regular men could build,setup and drive these racecars,pretty much self taught.
Great stuff guys! Things certainly have changed over the years, but being a 1960 model, I greatly miss the days of open trailers for all levels of stock car racing! The first cup race I attended was in 1970 at Charlotte, and we somehow unwisely got infield tickets. Seemed like the Wild West (and looking back, I believe it was!) but my most vivid memory of that day was gawking, spellbound, at the kings haul rig! Seems like there was some lettering that said “Shark Nose Plymouth” on it, but that’s been a very long time ago. This channel and Minnesota Max are by far and away my favorite UA-cam channels, and both do an excellent job of bringing back the good days! Thanks!
Always great stories on good old days of stock car racing. You need to get Kyle Petty on and tell his Smokey & the Bandit story from Texas back to the Petty shop.
My dad always pulled against Richard. He finally told me he saw them broke down with a flat. He loaned him his spare with the promise they'd ship it back to him. He never got it back lol.😂
I'd love to know where that 1960's model 4 door dodge hauler at the end of the video is at now!? I'd love to have it! I love that petty not only drove Chrysler motors cars but he also used dodge to haul the cars too!
great video!! my petty brothers T shirt was in my mail box today! Didn't Wendell Scott end up with the "Clyde" truck?? In the Mid to late 90's my brother worked at a shop here in Iowa that built trailers and the built a trailer for King Richard/Lance Snacks car. Something happened to it and they had to do a service call and re-skin part of the trailer down at Petty Enterprises. I would have to ask him about the specifics but Lee would take them to lunch every day at at a very odd specific time, like 11:15 and they always went to the same diner/restaurant/cafe every day.
I worked for Tiger for a few months in the early 90s. While I was there, there was a big,blue Dodge race car hauler that Tiger and Pete told me used to be a Petty truck sitting in the yard... did I meet Clyde???
That's what I wanna do, how can I get a job driving a race truck?? I've pulled Mobile Himes for 25 yrs at 80 mph, I know I can drive a race hauler and work the track 😊
I'd like to find an article or UA-cam video covering the influence of Chaparral trailers built by Blue Max funny car driver and NASCAR team owner Raymond Beadle.
Love yalls videos and especially the stories. What's the possibility of getting a Petty Brothers Racing Autographed Picture? Also is there anyway to get a copy of the picture that starts yalls show?
The 1st time I got to meet Richard Was at Daytona. They didn't finish well that day. I took a Polaroid photo of him at the foot of a ramp truck. Started walking away and he hollered at me. Thought I was in trouble for something but Richard says hey you want me to sign that! As a kid you don't forget someone doing nice things like that.
In 1971 I was a crew member on the 16 Chevelle owned by Ken Spikes. We were at Daytona checking in for the Firecracker 500. Everyone was pulling race cars on “lube rack” style open trailers or slant bed 1 ton trucks. Everyone is standing around the NASCAR office waiting their turn when the Pettys rolled up with a semi truck and trailer hauling the Superbirds for Richard an Pete Hamilton. Suddenly the only thing on everyone’s mind was My God, that thing has a diesel engine!
As a trucker, thanks for sharing those stories. I worked for Greensboro Trailer for several years. Greensboro Trailer, as I was told, built the first semi trailer for Richard Petty. Bob Barnes, who worked for Greensboro Trailer for 49 years until he retired, still had the original blueprints for the trailer. It was basically built from scratch. I haven't talked to him in several years, but he had mentioned possibly donating those blueprints to the Petty Museum, if he hasn't already. And, BTW, I heard a reference to Reid's Trailer. My dad worked for them as a welder when I was a kid (I'm 47 now). Good people. God bless y'all!
I follow you boys and had to comment on a few things about race car towing. My dad was George. Anyway, I began my 30+ year racing career at Flatrock Speedway in 1984. Like most youngsters that grew up in a racing family, I was a 3rd generation driver that grew up playing in wrecking yards. I won some championships. I have somewhere around 100 wins on dirt and paved tracks. My first race was the first ever 1984 Enduro 250 at Flatrock Speedway, $1,000.00 to win. We towed the race car to the speedway with a 1973 Dodge 3/4 ton pickup. The truck broke and fortunately my best friend and mechanic thought ahead enough to bring a tow chain. We ended up towing the truck with the race car for the final mile or so. Ended up finishing 15th out of 75 cars entered that day. As my money got better we bought an open trailer to travel to Toledo and South ending up in Florida. As I got older I purchased a Hallmark 24' enclosed trailer. When I had to retire about 2013 due to poor eyesight and various other injuries we had a 24' enclosed trailer with a picture window. It was a used Penske show car trailer, so when we stopped for fuel people could see the race car. Fortunately the track officials never looked inside as there were about 7 or 8 of my grand kids from 3 to 13 yrs. old. Way too young to get into the pits hiding under sleeping bags, it was a 200 mile trip each way. So they came prepared for the late and cold trip home to Belleville, MI.
LOL
All those screamin' Detroit 8v92's does this old trucker's heart good.
Glad you enjoyed!!
@@pettybrothersracing Y'all make me laugh, keep it up.
Love hearing all the stories . I grew up watching your uncle race . I was watching the king in the early 70's and while playing with my AFX 43 Petty blue 71 Plymouth Satilite slot car . I had 43 decals on my bicylces front and rear reflectors i got out of MPC Petty 1.25 scale models .
Im totally down on the trucking part . Loved watching the show Moving On with Claude Akins . My brother starting driving 18 wheelers around 79 . He showed up one summer afternoon in 1980 driving a Mack cabover with box trailer and took me to turn it around in our housing development.
I really loved riding in any semi . My mothers brother drove for Smith's Transportation in the 60's and 70's . He freaked when my mother told him i wanted to drive a truck . He said no not the life you want . It killed him from a heart attack in 76 .
The remarks they made around the 12:00 minute mark says it all about NASCAR today. They mentioned they haven't been to a race track in 10 years. When a Petty says that you know NASCAR is hurting. Hats off to the Petty family for making NASCAR what it was back in the day along with all the other greats.
So sad to see it fall apart. Nobody to blame but themselves.
You do know that there really is no petty enterprises anymore? The only constant is change.
My first ‘introduction’ to Petty Racing was in 1964 at the Asheville-Weaverville (NC) Speedway. Saw Richard go head on into a wall, while sitting 0:34 on a red clay bank, drinking cold beer and leaving the race covered in red clay dust. I was staying in a motor court at the edge of town across from another motor court that had the Petty hauler…a Dodge, I recall, flatbed truck that hauled the race car. I became a Winston Cup fan from then on.
2001 Daytona, I remember watching 2 Freightliner mechanics overhaul a Detroit in one of Petty’s haulers. They had to do it at the track because they couldn’t get the truck out until. We visited with them about everyday, checking on their progress. Almost as interesting as all the racing for me.😂
I remember my first cup race was at Dover! The first hauler to arrive was Richard Petty's #43! Probably 1982 or 3! I was astonished, we went over an walked around it, amazed at how bright and shiny it was! As a 12 year old I was amazed! Then I was hooked on Nascar racing!
The tow rig @3:09 really jogged my old memory. Because,i'm almost positive i remember (as a kid) the #43 Plymouth coming thru the pit gate being pulled by that pickup. The "43" was just hand drawn outline on the doors but "The King" set fast time & won that night,Aug. 8,1962, Huntsville Speedway (Alabama), my home track.
Back in the 70s, I was a crew member and remember one ride home from Michigan where our truck started blowing a head gasket about 250 miles from home, sometime before daylight. We had to stop and fill it up with water about every 15 minutes and managed to get about 70 miles from home before the motor locked up. Fortunately, it locked up in front of the shop of a friend of ours and by now it was nearly noon, Monday. We called a guy to come tow us the rest of the way home and seems like we got home about 24 hours after we left Michigan.......and it was summer time and hotter'n blazes to boot. I wonder how many of the kids racing today ever went through anything like that?
great video...if you look at the picture at about the 3:09 point you can see what looks like perhaps the tail lights off the 62 plymouth mounted on the homemade trailer. It also looks like the tail lights from a 59 oldsmobile mounted on the back of the cabinet on the chivalay pick-up truck. Its pretty neat how they didn't waste much of anything to make what they needed back then
Looks like they had a dually rear axle under that Shibby truck!
Look just ahead of the light, they made a wide spot in the chassis for the wider tire on the race car... engineering!
That box cabover in the video I had. ..
I HAD THE ROY HILL RAMP TRUCK A 81 CABOVER KW THAT CAME FROM THE PETTYS. I REDID THE REAR DOOR TO DO AWAY WITH THE RAMPS . I HAULED MY DIRT LATEMODEL IN IT ON THE FASTRAK TOUR IN THE 05 TO 09 SEASON'S IN THE MIDWEST AND WENT TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHTS IN SMOKEY MT SPEEDWAY AND BULLS GAP. WITH IT I LIVED THAT TRUCK BUT I LATER DOWN SIZED TO ENCLOSED AND DAULLY. IT WAS GETTING TO HARD FOR ME TO GET IN AND OUT BECAUSE OF MY BAD LEG I STILL GOT PICTURES OF IT. AND DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO GO THRU THE TRUCK NOT TO DO THE MOTOR AND TRANSMISSION BUT THE BODY NEEDED BE WORKED ON INTERIOR AND WIRING..IF THAT THING WOULD HAVE HAD 2 SPEED REAREND IT WOULD HAVE RUN A 150 MPH FULLY LOADED. BUT WAS GEARED FOR THE 55 MPH. SPEED LIMITS.
Kentucky Furniture trailers were some of the first enclosed race tractor trailers. Semi- customized
Glad y’all guys are doing this and greetings from “Davis Country”, just a couple miles west of y’all!
Love it when you guys wrecked the haller going to Michigan I was the that rental back and and to fly back home back in Saunders leasing days
My first toolbox was a bread crate....57 Crown Vic 300 motor BorgWarner T10.....Joe Childress sold me a franklin QC rearend. Charlie Pierce would haul me to the track. I lived on the Thomasville side of Randolph county.
I remember seeing the Petty enterprises ramp truck on the toll way leaving the Milwaukee mile in the early 70's, epic sight.
My earliest memories of a NASCAR driver is of Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough
That Dodge 600 crew cab shown at the end is reportedly one of the two "Snake and Mongoose" haulers that Don Prudhomme has restored.
You boys remind me of just about every dude over the age of 35 in my village here. Love the show guys, keep it up
And yet again, another great episode, guys. Like you was saying, the haulers sure have evolved. It isn’t any different on our local dirt track scene here in upstate NY. The bare bones open hauler days gave way to enclosed haulers and now, we have many teams running 18 wheelers . I’ve been following auto racing since 1978, and boy the changes I’ve seen in 45 of my 50 years of living!
I’m right by Stateline speedway and the variation is insane. Some of the challenger guys just drive their cars, then there’s still tow bar guys. You got your open trailers with and without the tire racks, the career contractors with their smaller closed haulers. All the way up to the bigger regional late model guys coming in their modern nascar style haulers. Gotta get there early with pit passes it’s damn amazing.
The only constant is change.
I am 66 years old. Some of my family use to race. I was just a kid back then. I also loved them 18 wheels. Any how I got to live my dream. I got to do a bit of both. Racing and trucking go hand in hand....Thank You guys for this video brought back a lot of memories.
NASCAR should have a throw back race where they have to pull with a truck and an open trailer and only bring what they can fit in the truck, could be good for the manufactures seeing their trucks towing the car, who can fit the most in it to take to the track. Just a thought
I love the Kenworth Aerodyne!
I could listen to stories like this forever!!!
Just found your channel, and am soaking it in! I was a huge Nascar fan up until restrictor plates, and when they kicked the old guard to the curb to yuppify it. We were at Daytona when The King's car spiraled against the fence. I remember watching the driveshaft turning as it whirred on by, and the terrible thump when he got hit afterwards.
On a lighter note, we were at Pocono when he officiated or attended a couple's wedding on the back of a rollback. Couldn't hardly see it because the fog was so thick. Typical Pocono.
Enjoyed hearing about the haulers!
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come
Another fantastic video👍👍
I just came across this channel don’t know y’all yet but the gentleman in the red ball cap reminds me so much of James Hylton and the guys that’d help ole James out every week. I used to wrench on an ARCA car and James was a huge asset and friend to our small team. Many of these stories I could hear JH saying. Great stuff 😊
That’s awesome thanks for watching!
@@pettybrothersracing glad to find your channel
when I was a tanager my mother would drop me off at the old Richmond fairgrounds raceway 1/2 mile track probably around 1970 & that's how they hauled the cars on a open trailer with a canvas over the cars .
Great stories guys love listening to them, the truck's have changed a lot over the years
They definitely have! Thanks for tuning in Gerald!
Stuff has to get done. So do it boys. True bad asses
Mark Twain ain't got nothing on you guys.Your stories are so interesting and you tell them well.Always look forward to hearing and seeing the Petty Brothers Racing Show.What amazes me to this day is how seemingly regular men could build,setup and drive these racecars,pretty much self taught.
Great stuff guys! Things certainly have changed over the years, but being a 1960 model, I greatly miss the days of open trailers for all levels of stock car racing! The first cup race I attended was in 1970 at Charlotte, and we somehow unwisely got infield tickets. Seemed like the Wild West (and looking back, I believe it was!) but my most vivid memory of that day was gawking, spellbound, at the kings haul rig! Seems like there was some lettering that said “Shark Nose Plymouth” on it, but that’s been a very long time ago. This channel and Minnesota Max are by far and away my favorite UA-cam channels, and both do an excellent job of bringing back the good days! Thanks!
Great stories and history.
Great history and great video! Love the stories! Thanks!
Love these stories, gentlemen!
I loved the Ford C Series trucks!!
Always great stories on good old days of stock car racing. You need to get Kyle Petty on and tell his Smokey & the Bandit story from Texas back to the Petty shop.
My dad always pulled against Richard. He finally told me he saw them broke down with a flat. He loaned him his spare with the promise they'd ship it back to him. He never got it back lol.😂
As a huge NASCAR fan how did I miss this, great show you have a new fan
Glad you found us Paul!
in the early 1980"s , i can"t remember what year, but i worked for Saunders Leasing then. Saunders sponsored Petty racing.
I just liked and subscribed to the channel.
Love watching you guys!
Thanks Greg!
Love what you guys are doing here
Thanks Sean!!
I'd love to know where that 1960's model 4 door dodge hauler at the end of the video is at now!? I'd love to have it! I love that petty not only drove Chrysler motors cars but he also used dodge to haul the cars too!
great video!! my petty brothers T shirt was in my mail box today! Didn't Wendell Scott end up with the "Clyde" truck?? In the Mid to late 90's my brother worked at a shop here in Iowa that built trailers and the built a trailer for King Richard/Lance Snacks car. Something happened to it and they had to do a service call and re-skin part of the trailer down at Petty Enterprises. I would have to ask him about the specifics but Lee would take them to lunch every day at at a very odd specific time, like 11:15 and they always went to the same diner/restaurant/cafe every day.
Awesome show
Thanks Doug!
Can’t get enough guys!
More to come! Thanks Andy!
I worked for Tiger for a few months in the early 90s. While I was there, there was a big,blue Dodge race car hauler that Tiger and Pete told me used to be a Petty truck sitting in the yard... did I meet Clyde???
Enjoyed!!!! 🏁 43 🏁
That's what I wanna do, how can I get a job driving a race truck?? I've pulled Mobile Himes for 25 yrs at 80 mph, I know I can drive a race hauler and work the track 😊
there is a company that hauls the tires and wheels and pit boxes and other equipment for the teams to the racetracks every week
Champion Tire and Wheel
❤ love it guys
Thanks Lisa!
Love these ❤️
Whatever happened to the 1958 or 59 GMC that they used in the early 60's? Does it still exist?
Supposedly Alan K. once had a car delivered to the track on an open trailer. (It was an emergency type deal.)
Probably a spare, many teams had their primary and backup in the hauler. Testing or bringing a 3rd card usually came on an open trailer.
@@pat36a It was a desperation move. Something happened to both his cars at the track.
Send this message to your race hauler , small 2axle white truck . Late 1960’s in TYLER ,TEXAS on Interstate 20 going west to California
I'd like to find an article or UA-cam video covering the influence of Chaparral trailers built by Blue Max funny car driver and NASCAR team owner Raymond Beadle.
I remember that Ford at 5:15 and 8:50
Love yalls videos and especially the stories. What's the possibility of getting a Petty Brothers Racing Autographed Picture? Also is there anyway to get a copy of the picture that starts yalls show?
At what time did they start having haulers with air conditioning? There must have been some very hot drives to and from the tracks back then!!
How many street Hemi cars were around the shop in the 60s and 70s
Are you guys ever gonna restore that Dodge cabover sitting on Petty property?
Give us inside on when airplanes and Jets came into play
What a pity, nothin on that Dodge CO 🤦♂️
One guy you can barely hear, the other guy is blowing my speakers our.