Posted on 11/23/2004 10:39:23 AM PST by WestCoastGal
"Armadillo"...Texan for Lobster
Armadillo, the other white meat!!
Got any critters up there yer way there bender?
Thanks a million!! It's getting closer YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Please add don-o to the ping list.
Thanks!
fyi to the Pit Crew
WCG, can you and I do a sync up on the ping list this weekend to make sure we have all the same folks on it?
I think we should have 129 total as of adding don-o.
The wife was so happy to see (what she calls the Zoom Zooms) on the tube over the week-end. She said, "I didn't realize that I missed that stuff so bad".
I gave her a copy of WestCoastGal's nick name list and she has memorized it all already.
It took 5 years to get her into this but you/me have created a monster. It's Valentine's Day and I just bought her (since I work there and get a discount) a Reese's Racing Jacket to present to her when she comes home from work today. BTW, who runs the Reeses car if anyone knows?
Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer shared the ride last year IIRC.
Question for you Steve.
What incentive other than money/prestige do DJ and JJ have to go more than one lap and quit in the Duel?
None, but I don't recall that happening lately (the one-engine rule allows you to change the engine once between the Twins, oops, Duels and the 500 without penalty).
OK thanks that was my other question on the engine changes. Of course they do risk wrecking and going to a backup car.
Just watched last years Daytona on Speed. Good race!!
Computer should be back up to snuff now. :-)
Good to hear.
Bttt
Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun (Excerpt 1)
By DAVID POOLE
This is the first of three excerpts from "Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun," a new book by Observer motorsports writer David Poole. The book, published by Sports Publishing LLC of Champaign, Ill., is available at book stores, by calling (877) 424-BOOK or online at sportspublishingllc.com
When Rick Hendrick signed Tim Richmond to drive for Hendrick Motorsports, he promised to give Richmond a car from one of his dealerships to drive.
Hendrick asked Jimmy Johnson to get someone to deliver an IROC Camaro to the marina in Fort Lauderdale where Richmond had a houseboat. Johnson, who had already agreed to move back to North Carolina and take over as general manager of the Hendrick motorsports program in time for the 1986 season, decided to handle the job himself so he could meet one of the drivers he'd be working with.
"I left about 6 in the morning and pulled up at the marina about 9 or something like that," Johnson said. "Tim had told me what slip his houseboat was docked it. I finally found it and it was quiet as a mouse. I was looking and I heard somebody say, 'Hey!' I looked up on the deck on the top of the boat and there was Tim in a little Speedo bathing suit. He said, 'Come on up here.' I went up there and he had maybe a six-pack of beers, empty, and a big tray full of crab legs he had already eaten."
Johnson and Richmond visited briefly, and Richmond provided a tour of the boat that the manufacturer had given him in return for being a spokesman for the company. Johnson had a 1 p.m. flight back across the state to Tampa, so he asked Richmond to drive him to the airport.
"That," Johnson said, "was a big mistake.
"We go flying down the road, this six- or eight-lane highway with like a four-inch curb separating the two sides. All of a sudden, he says, 'You want a cup of coffee?' I said I wasn't much of a coffee drinker, but he jerked the wheel to the left and we jumped the curb running 70 or 80. That thing started sliding backward into incoming traffic and he slid it around, jerked it back into low gear and floored it. We're spinning the wheels going backward. You couldn't see for the smoke. The thing took off and he went immediately back over the curb, across in front of traffic and down an embankment into the parking lot of this coffee shop."
Johnson looked at Richmond incredulously.
"I said, 'What the hell was all of that?'" Johnson said. "Tim said, 'They're topless.' We went inside, and sure enough it was a topless coffee shop because they had outlawed topless bars in Fort Lauderdale. So we go in and get a cup of coffee and check out the interior.
"We get back in the car and go to the airport, where they're doing a lot of construction work there. Tim and I pull up under the parking deck and I open the door and I've got one leg out, turning to say good-bye and that I was looking forward to working with him. But a cab pulls up behind us and the guy blows his horn. Tim looks in the mirror, puts the car in reverse and stomps the gas. He drills that cab. I almost broke my damn leg. It knocked the cab driver back and he goes peeling out, and Tim jerks the car out of reverse into gear and takes off after him - with me trying to get back in the car and shut the door. We chased that cab through the construction with workers scattering. The cab ran a stoplight and got away from us.
"Tim said, 'I can't stand for somebody to do that to me.' Then he took me back and dropped me off. That was my initiation to Tim."
Early the next year, as the start of the '86 season approached, Folgers sent some of its top officials and advertising representatives to Charlotte to meet with key players in the race team to plan their marketing strategies.
"It's a freezing cold day," Johnson said. "We had a meeting that was supposed to start at 9 a.m. Harry and Rick and I show up in three-piece suits, this is our first meeting with these guys to make up the game plan and talk about they're expecting. It's a big meeting and we want it to be perfect. We want to make a first impression.
"We start the meeting, just sort of talking, and they had concerns about Tim and his reputation. Rick's telling them, 'I've got this covered. Tim and I have a great relationship and I promise you I am going to clean him up.'
"Tim shows up about a half-hour late. He walks in and he's got on this big old fur coat and after-ski boots with fur around the tops, ugly looking things. He takes the fur coat off and throws it across the table. Under that, he had on a T-shirt that said something like "Eat More Posse" and a pair of jogging shorts that were cut up the side. Tim goes and sits at the head of the table and throws his leg up on the table. Everything just fell out. Rick and Harry and I were saying, 'Oh my God!'"
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Tim Richmond was quite a guy.
Wow, what a character!
They sure don't dare do that stuff these days!!
Did you see Chris Economaki on Speed? He was saying the thrill used to be from the danger, and they took that away. Then it was the speed, and they are STILL taking it away. It must be the characters...think they're pretty much gone too.
I have Gordon and Niemacheck in my $ leagues.
You can't go wrong with those two I would think.
I'm still waffling back and forth between picks. :)
As usual.
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