(This was posted on the Hobby Heaven board today and I wanted to invite everyone here to either participate or just come along for the last official Labor Day ride with "The Lady In Black". I'll post the link a day or so before the event)
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A good wake(if there can be such a thing) is a bunch of friends of the deceased sitting around telling stories about and remembering the good times they shared. This is to be the last Labor Day Southern 500 because some track out in California is gettin the date. It's the end of a fifty year tradition sacrificed to the allmighty dollar by na$car. I can't think of a better bunch to invite to the wake of the "Lady in Black", the "real" Southern 500 , than my online friends and fellow race fans and modellers.I propose a posting of true Southern 500 entries in the spirit of Harold Brasington's dream. In the beginning all you had to have was a late model car and nerve. It had to be stock and a lot of them were driven to the races, and hopefully there was enough left to drive home again.
I know a lot of you have built early '50's street cars so here's what let's do. If you don't have a 1950-1969(IIRC last year of the 2nd generation old track) then take one of your early '50's street cars that you think is pretty hot and pop off the wheel covers and tape up the lights and chrome. They still had full interiors and no rollbars then. Put on some masking tape or shoe polish numbers on the doors and come racing with me on Labor Day. Let's send the old girl out in style, howz'about it?
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08-19-2003, 03:34 PM
