No Nascar fans???

[trent]

Can you blame a person for preferring some REAL racing?

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[rphillips]

Buffalo, those were my exact thoughts until I was coaxed, by free tickets, to going to the last Nascar "Winston Cup" race held at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway back in 1984, I've been hooked ever since. Thinking for you, If those races that last hrs. on end are too long, you may enjoy a Top fuel dragster race, 0 to 338 mph. in 3.6 sec. but be careful, it may be over before you knew it's started yet.... Thank goodness folks enjoy different things, can you imagine how packed the grandstands would be if "EVERYBODY" liked Nascar... or Tennis?

[trent]

Hey, if you can tolerate golf, baseball for hours ..........

[Suzukian]

Hey, if you can tolerate golf, baseball for hours ..........

I have those channels blocked.

[Runningdog]

Dang dog, you're telling your age. Last Daytona race on sand was 1958, I don't remember, I's only 4 yr. old back then.

Oh, I was sixish, but we got odd things from KVOS in Washington State on the black and white TV.

[rphillips]

Our neighbor had a TV, we didn't get one till appx. '63'. We did have an AM radio though.

[Suzukian]

'63, eh, I'm an avid tube radio/amplifier collector, you could get a simulated smell of the race at high volume, if it was dusty in the case.

[dpep]

My dad was a technician for Whirlpool. He built from components the first TV we had including the wooden cabinet for it. The year was 1950. There was only one slight problem. In 1950 in Evansville, Indiana there were no television stations.

But way late at night, after midnight, if you turned the big tall antenna we had next to the house just the right way (directions being shouted from within) you could sometimes see emerge from the snow the test pattern for WAVE channel 3 in Louisville Ky a hundred miles of so away. Television stations used to shut off programing at the end of a day and put up a test pattern screen.

Neighbors would wait up and come by to see it. Everyone was impressed.

[Rob S.]

I long for the days when there were only 3 networks and 3 local stations, and none of them were on all night (and that was in the heart of NY City!). Move out into the 'country' and you had even fewer choices.

"The Westerner" with Gary Cooper and "Band of Angels" (aka "Forces of the Angels") with Clark Gable are two of my favorite movies that I wouldn't have seen had there been any other choices for late night viewing.

How quaint Bruce Springsteen now sounds singing "57 Channels and Nothing On"!

[Buffalo Bill]

Oh it's so good to just sit back an remember dem good ole days…

[Carter Turk]

I had the chance to be a passenger in this thing on 16 turn Ridge road course, with the track day owner of Turn 2.
Cool to have a car on track perspective, as I do motorcycle track days on the same course.
Lots of sliding going on & floating over apex's on 2 wheels.
He was passing every vehicle on the track, including the Lambo's, McLaren's & Porsche's, once the Hoosiers slicks heated up.
4-point seatbelt harness, with bare bones braced interior.

I don't watch cars going around an oval though.

IMG_20160804_131025966 by Carter Turk, on Flickr
IMG_20160804_132340883 by Carter Turk, on Flickr

[Suzukian]

Maybe they could do a box circuit, having them all bunch 4 times a race, slamming the brakes, combine that with a Demolition Derby, and have a Wrestling match in the center at the same time, and a flat track dirt track race, some fried dough........add some chariots......24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week!

[rphillips]

You mus'ta watched yesterday's race. They don't get much more borrring than that. I blame the rule changes... It's nothing like it was back in the Petty, Allison, Yarborough days... But still watching them all.

[trent]

Classic, beware of curse words..jack gets carried away sometimes...

https://youtu.be/2tAJtnl_1bQ

[rphillips]

Excited, wasn't he.....