Posted on 08/10/2015 4:54:52 AM PDT by rstrahan
On Monday Morning, Buddy Bakers death apwas announced by Sirius XM NASCAR
(Excerpt) Read more at foxsports.com ...
Sad.
Good racer. RIP
I loved Buddy Baker when he was in the TV booth.
By the time he said. “They are heading into turn one”, the cars were coming out of turn four.
Benny Parsons was fun too.
People would ask if Richard Petty was really that good and he would say “Nah, he just got lucky 200 times”.
Agreed. Both beat the hell out of the current crop of “Experts” in the booth.
Saw him race once , at Bridgehampton on Long Island in 1963 when I was 11 . Richard Petty won that day . Got Fireball Roberts’ autograph . My uncle Doug , who took me , was a big Petty fan . R.I.P. Buddy .
The personalities are fading from NASCAR and its one of the things hurting the sport.
He’s a different generation but Kenny Wallace just retired the other day so he can spend more time on the “twitternet” and he’s a funny guy.
https://twitter.com/Kenny_Wallace/status/630470701900820480
First driver to break the 200 mph barrier (Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, March 24, 1970).
First driver to win the Big Four (Daytona, Talladega, Darlington and Charlotte).
Ranks ninth on NASCAR’s all-time list for top-five finishes (202) and top-10 finishes (311).
Ranks 10th on the all-time list for pole positions with 40.
Career earnings: $3,995,500
Ping
Listen to that Dodge! Pleasure from days gone by.
So long Buddy, see ya on the other side.
Bummer, I liked that guy.
Great link. I didn’t realize they did live coverage back in ‘70, heck, in 79 it was hard to find any live coverage.
RIP Buddy! I had the pleasure to talk with him several times. I always enjoyed his humor and wit. His dad Buck was a character as well.
“Career earnings: $3,995,500”
Just like every form of racing. The guys that built the sport hardly made squat. Many of the drivers today make that in a season. Some a whole lot more.
And none of them could handle one of the over horse-powered iron monsters of the ‘70s!
Never heard of the guy even though we share the same last name. But then again, I’m not a racing fan. He seemed like a good guy based on the responses here.
Rest in peace Buddy
Drag races even rarer.
It was great when you managed to catch one.
LOL, I didn’t always feel lucky to catch one because it meant either I was not at a race or the weather was too crappy to be outside.
I hung out with Chris Economaki at the Syracuse Super Dirt Week back in like ‘78, he was pretty cool. OK, I was just a young lad, kind of star struck, but he took time to talk with me so that was cool.
old NASCAR bumpo
Sad news. Definitely one of my favorites when I followed NASCAR. RIP, Buddy.
A coworker and I had to pick up Buddy Baker and Neil Bonnet at Metropolitan Airport in Detroit and take them to afor a press conference about an indoor race at the Pontiac Silverdome.
We were running late as Neil’s plane was delayed and they would not let us drive, so Neil said he would.
He drove like he was in a race and Buddy just encouraged him as he could see we were petrified.
These 2 were so funny and so very, very nice.
RIP Buddy.
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