Mud Packer (Offline)
#3
9/20/09 1:58 PM
Mike
Be nice to people on the way up. You might need them on the way down. Jimmy Durante
ktsr (Offline)
#5
9/20/09 9:49 PM
Is this not the greatest pic on this website. Red Farmer is the epitamy of what a racer is. I had this pleasure of working on his dirt late models for a short time when I first moved to Alabama in 1989. Working for one of your heros is a great thing. I learned what it meant to race on nothing and to never let that deter your desire. We worked in a not very updated shop behind his house every night after work and made the Saturday trip to Talladega short track on the weekends. He was also Davey's Busch Grand National Crew Chief at that time. So, we would take the trail from behind his house that led straight to the Allison's shop to visit and hang out sometimes. I was 19 yrs old and living a dream. These guys are the greatest. If i'm not mistaken, Mr. Farmer is a racing hero of one of our past sprint cars guru's, Tony Stewart. Even he knows greatness when he sees it.
P.S. Mr. Farmer gave me a great quote this year at the ICE BOWL at TST in January. I asked him if he was ever gonna retire, and this was his response. "I may wear out, but i'll never get Rusty."
Great Pics
Kevin Thomas, Sr
racephoto1 (Offline)
#6
9/20/09 11:18 PM
I was at the DuQuoin ARCA race a few years back . Trying to find out how old he was, I said my friend Mel Kenyon is 64. Red replied in his southern drawl," That boy is a young pup." Oh, he finished third that day, if I remember correctly.
stephen (Offline)
#7
9/21/09 11:37 AM
Down here in the south, they called supermodifieds "skeeters" back in the early and mid 60's. Besides the Alabama gang, there were other great drivers that ran supers, Hooker Hood, Ellis Palasini, Ival Cooper, Freddy Friar and his brother out of Chattanooga, open wheel racing was pretty hot down here for a while. Donnie Allison held the track record for years at the Huntsville(AL) Speedway, well into the 80's, in a super.