Posted on 01/20/2007 6:56:24 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Brett Bodine wasn't sure what to think when James Hylton called NASCAR's Research and Development Center to ask about driving in the 2007 Daytona 500.
"Are you serious?" Bodine said.
"If there were any issues, we wouldn't allow it." -- Brett Bodine
Realizing there were no hidden television cameras and he wasn't being "Punk'd," Bodine told Hylton to fax him his résumé like everybody else seeking certification to drive in a Nextel Cup event.
"I said, 'Well, I hope you have a lot of paper because I have 601 Cup starts,'" Hylton recalled. "Two weeks later, he called and said I was accepted, to come down to Daytona for testing but that NASCAR would be watching me.
"I said, 'I don't see no problem with that. They've been watching me for 40 years.'"
Actually, 43.
Hylton, 72, has been driving a stock car longer than most in the garage have lived.
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Ain't that irritatin'?
The buyer was more than a little emotional. About how I would feel...
Amen
HP?
The one and only '66 Shelby Cobra is on the stand now.
Sold for $5,000,000.00
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