Father's Day
 

I am going to jump the gun by a day here, gents, and wish all of the dads out there a Happy Father's Day for tomorrow. I don't know what YOU will be doing, but I'll be down at Plymouth Speedway watching the UMP Summernationals Hell Tour. It will be hot, I'll have my grill, cheap beer, and I do not have to work Monday, so this is a win-win-win. I've been slooooowly getting back into the swing of thing this year and this is right in the crosshairs and just what I need.

On a sidebar, is it me or is there a Milwaukee's Best Light shortage down in the Hoosier state, too?

More importantly, enjoy your day gentlemen.

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Mike I don"t know about beer cuz I do shots! For dads day my daughter and her boy friend are takin me over to the PowrI show. :D

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James Lee Burton 1927-1987

Technically I’m not jumping the gun because as I write this it’s past midnight here in the 219. Happy Father’s Day to you Mike and all the other dad’s out there. As probably many of you, I have my Dad to thank for my obsession with racing, and I can’t thank him enough. Our roots are deep in racing as my grandfather and his brothers built a race track in Charleston Illinois that raced midgets regularly. That then is where my Dad got bit by the racing bug and tonight I was in the Race Garage with one of my sons streaming racing from across the country. Racing has turned into a part of the fabric of our family, and Dad made it happen. Mike, I’ve been contemplating going to Plymouth Sunday, and the fact you’re going to be there makes it even more intriguing. Not sure yet what we’re going to do but we might see you there. Happy Father’s Day to all

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Yeah, I have to tip my purple cap to my late father. He got me hooked when I was a little guy, too. We lived in Detroit and I can remember standing on the Belle Isle Bridge looking through the slats in the railing. I was too small to see over the top. We were watching the APBA Gold Cup for the unlimited hydroplanes. This was 1965....? I was five years old. Ron Musson won driving the green and yellow Miss Bardahl. Sadly he was one of the drivers who lost his life the next year in DC.

But I can still hear the sounds of those boats to this day, and the excitement there was to be had.

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UMP Summernationals at Plymouth have been canceled due to wet grounds from last evening.

https://plymouthspeedway.net/

I guess it will be TV today - F1 and IndyCars.

Happy father's day to you all. Have a great day and enjoy the great things that we all love. God bless America. I have to say go Ballou and a big win tonight. LOL. Thanks.

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SVM, I was right there with you only in 61 thru 62, my office was just outside the gates to Ft Mcnair, where the Potomac and the Anacostia merge, we lived just across the river for 2 years, and my heart had to put up with all the sounds those 2 years, we went to the Presidents Cup Regatta those 2 years, man what excitement, I had a friend that helped on MISS Madison, and in 62 there was a guy there with a Corvair powered boat, don't remember the class, but he really stomped butt, may have been there in 61 too. Thanks for bringing that up, I also went to the ones in Indiana often.

For me growing up it was race trips with my dad. Butler on Saturday nights. Sundays at Kalamazoo for the old tri-sac time period. A special road trip was Warsaw or Eldora. The early days of SOD.
When I became a dad it was 1/4 midgets and go-kart races.
So to all dad's have a great day and see you at the races.

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had a big race with those big boats here in Evansville called Thunder on the Ohio for several years then the boats all went to thurbines I thought they should change the name to Whisper on the Water;) :D

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Jim, I went a few times after the change over to jets, but those darned piston engines got soooo expensive, and hard to find parts for, I remember as a kid, if Mom and Dad could have bought me anything I wanted, it would have been any one of those 12cylinder monster, the were going for $200.00 in them little magazines, talk about hard to come by, 200 bucks in those days would feed us for a long time. The roose was about the same, but the "thunder" was gone.

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I must post something I've had framed and hanging on my office wall for at least a couple of decades. I embellished this from a fellow who wrote in to the old National Speed Sport News in the days leading up to Father's Day and NSSN published the letter and it spoke volumes of how him taking me to the races was a bonding mechanism that exists to this day in spite of the fact that Dad left us way back in late 2005. I really wish I could take credit for authoring this but I can't. It exemplifies my gratitude to my Dad for my lifelong love of motorsports and many other things he influenced in my life. It's a safe bet this describes Father-son/daughter relationships of many of us here.



It goes like this:



Some Dad's buy your first car,

Some Dad's pay your way through college,

Some Dad's even give you the family business,

My Dad didn't do any of those things,

Instead,

MY DAD TOOK ME TO THE RACES


Happy Father's Day to all Father's everywhere.

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I really kinda liked the ones that went" Busssscccch". Not!

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Thanks for chiming in, Jim!

Robin Miller once commented on E-Racing. Electric car racing. The future of motorsports - eventually.

Quoting him, waaaaay out of text, that without the sound of a reciprocating beast, it is not the same. We were drawn to racing by the sights AND the sounds.

Millions of years from now someone/something will dig our fossilized remains up and analyze them.

"A triceratops? Stegosaurus? Allosaurus? Wooly mammoth? Sabre toothed tiger?

"No...... just an Indiana dirt track fan."

Dinosaurs ran on dirt, too.....