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How did you come up with your number for your race car?

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Assigned to me by NBL (National Bicycle League...BMX), assigned to me during a county fair motorcycle race, middle # assigned to my SSN, so I had templates and used it during go kart racing & TQ racing...78 used through the years.

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I use 44B. 44 was my Dad's high school basketball number. I added the B after a night where I was one of 3 #44s parked side by side by side at Paragon.

I called the track to register and asked what numbers were left. She said the lowest numbers left were 2 10 & 23. I said 23 it is.

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Funny as it sounds growing up as a kid my brother and I watched days of thunder almost every week before our race so i run the #46 for Cole Trickle

I've always ran 93 because of the year I was born and it just stuck. Changed it to 93B when I moved up to mini sprints to avoid confusion and to correspond with my last name. Has a nice ring to it now though I think

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my dad drove a wrecker for my uncle when his was a kid and 38 was his wrecker number

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my dads race cars was the duece. when i raced motocross my number changed every year depending on my rank but the H after the number was always there so put them togather 2H was born 28 years ago dangit im getting old. LOL

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My grandfather started running the "lightning 2" on his modifieds and super modifieds in the 1950's and 1960's, my dad ran the number 2 (along with 72, my grandpa's alternate number) when racing go-karts in the 1960's and 1970's so when I started running quarter midgets in 1985 I started running the 2 (with and without the lightning bolt) and have run it ever since. Now to honor the memory of my grandfather I run (and always will) the "lightning 2" exactly the way he did on his cars maintaining the original font and colors.

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Story has it Michigan Hall of Famer Wayne Landon got his number by starting out as number 88. Well it was about the same Olds came out w/ the 88. So there was a lot of 88 out there. Wayne got out the paint & made it a 83, if you ever get a chance to meet Wayne he usually has his wife nearby. Neat couple :44:

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As a young boy I met JC Agajanian ,big hat and cigar, and he became an idle of mine. I like that he brought rookies to the speedway each year and made some big name drivers in his 98. One was named Rufus (parnelli jones). We also started racing in 1998 so the number just had to be 98.

When I was racin karts I got #15 from my uncle's sprintcar/supermodified he owned back in the 60's

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My dad ran the number B-61 on his 55 chevy. It was after a 1961 B model Mack truck. Last year we started running a Kenyon Midget and because Mel ran the 61 we went with my dads last late model number of 96.

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Originally Posted by Bad Dad 54:
Story has it Michigan Hall of Famer Wayne Landon got his number by starting out as number 88. Well it was about the same Olds came out w/ the 88. So there was a lot of 88 out there. Wayne got out the paint & made it a 83, if you ever get a chance to meet Wayne he usually has his wife nearby. Neat couple :44:

He has A LOT of funny stories to tell. Love that guy! Walking history book too!

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Growing up in SoCal in the 50's & 60's with the last name Jones, Rufus just had to be my hero too. When it was time to pick a number I thought there were too many 98's already so I went back a few years in Parnelli's career and landed on the number he carried on the Vel's Ford T-bird Modified.

Jim Jones
Montpelier Midget #97

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27, From Don Thompson

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I am going back to #74. I ran it my Rookie year in Sprint Cars, in 2001. This number goes back to watching one of my childhood heroes, Rich Vogler, in the Bob Lowe #74.:22: R.I.P. Rapid Rich!

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My Soap Box Derby # back in the 60`s...

9 was my dads baseball number my baseball number the day mom was born and the day I was born so why not one more 9 lol

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Anthony Joseph Foyt

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Looks the same upside down #111

It was on the first quarter midget I drove back in the buckeye quarter midget racing association when I was a kid and had good luck with it. About 20 years later, I raced Yamaha super can karts and wasn't doing too well starting out. As a joke between my dad and I, I duct taped a "13" on it as it worked well for us before and ended up winning the event. I have stuck with it ever since....;)

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Originally Posted by Bad Dad 54:
Story has it Michigan Hall of Famer Wayne Landon got his number by starting out as number 88. Well it was about the same Olds came out w/ the 88. So there was a lot of 88 out there. Wayne got out the paint & made it a 83, if you ever get a chance to meet Wayne he usually has his wife nearby. Neat couple :44:

Thanks for the story Randy! It is 100% true. When Gordy Johncock wanted to start racing my grandpa boult him his first super modified. That car was numbered 84. When my dad started racing he went with 82. The first year i started racing with Hoss I ran 38 when i drove for my grandpa. Then in 2003 I went to my dads number 82. since then I have always ran 82. Now that I have my small fab shop here at home I now have the Feather Ruffler II, my indoor car. My dads nick name and the name of his mini champ was the Feather Ruffler.

And the other thing Randy is right, grandpa follows my every move with racing, so any time you see the yellow 82 with Landon on the sun visor look him up! Living legends are becoming a rare group!

Nick Landon

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Neat stories guys keep them coming.

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My oldest son when he started out in karting ran 24 because he was a Gordon fan. When he moved up from karts 24 was taken so he went to 26 which is his birthday. My middle son runs 83. He liked Dale Sr. and Dale Jr. so he combined their numbers. My youngest son started with 3 for Dale Sr. in outlaw karts but when he moved to a mini sprint 3 was taken so he went with 33.

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That's me hanging on the wheel, 1969 Purdue Grand Prix. My Dad built the kart and was Race Marshall/Director that year. When we decided to give it another try last year 24x seemed appropriate.

Notice the spiffy flame retardant coveralls? :6:

Michael
24x

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When I ran 1/4 midgets and Karts, I ran 38. I thought it was because my father and I were fans of the short track champion Jimmy Insolo who drove that numbers. Many years later my mom informed me, she had told my dad to use that # for the P38 fighter plane. Go figure. I still run the #38 for Iracing (because I am still a fan of Jimmy), I think the numbers look cool, and people still remember for that number.

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i'd always planned on numbering a car 34dd after my wife's bra size/ but she ran off with a professor and left me flat busted, so oh bother

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Saw a car with "665" on it and he named it "almost evil". It was black with gold leaf numbers. Pretty sharp car

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I had been a Jeff Gordon fan long before NASCAR and my first race car was a Kart and it happened to have 24 on it so I just stuck with it. This year will be my 10th season in Sprints, where in the heck are my 87 wins??? lol

Danny 24

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42 it was my basket ball #

I was born 7-9-79 and weighed 7lbs 9ozs.

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I use 3x for a couple of reasons. Its the size of my fire suit (XXXL), my car is a Triple X chassis, and lastly, I named it after my wife (she is my third one) Oddly enough she didn't see that much humor in the last one. Drew Tarr

My young son, AJ was playing Little League baseball and his former Oakland A's hero Mark Mcguire was now with the Cardinals and was in the middle of his homerun record breaking season. Watching the chase for the record everynight on TV with my son brought us even closer together as father son. It was a magical time for us.

Around that same time we decided to build a midget team to race USAC Western States. AJ, along with the rest of the family, decided on Cardinal red as our team color and the number 25, which was Marks number.

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When David started racing go-karts he pick #24 because he was a Gorden Fan. When he started winning he wanted his own identity so he pick the #20. Little did he know at the time, there would be a famous #20.
When we started with the Silver Crown cars your number had to be registered, so he took 2x20 or #40, hence our car name "20/20 vision".

When I was young, very young, I always thought about using the #7 on my car. Then as I got a little older I saw a lot of the good drivers had #1 on their car. I was too young to realize why the fast guys carried the #1. As a result, I put the 1 and 7 together to get #17. I ran that number for a while but soon I was racing against a lot of other #17's. I tried 17r for a while, but just didn't like the looks of it. After that, the 117 was born, because it wasn't just another 17, and I always thought 3 digit numbers were unique and usually recognizable (like the Dyer brick mobile 461)..,

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94 because that was the number my dad used alot when he drove for papa weld. When he drove his own car it was 11 but my brother uses that number so i have been using the 94 since i started racing

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I`m with Hupp... 9 is a pretty good number.... 9 because my hero Calvin drove it for Leo McCoskey back when a CAE was the best you could do... 19 & 91 because the other car was already using the 9 and a 1 doesn`t take up much room... 90 because it still adds up to 9.... 76 because Dad liked the number on Bill Starr`s 97 , traced them and made a template, flipped the 9 over and put the 7 in front.... 29 from Dad`s 33 Ford coupe and I bought a tank from Dave Durnwald with 29 already on it....0 because I wanted a single digit number and nobody else wants to be the target...70 for Dizz Wilson who could have been hard to get along with but always treated me well...

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dan, calvin looked pretty damn good in the #19 car. :6: thanks to you dad and red mcCourt.

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Here's one that's off topic, but a bit of history. With the midgets dying off in New England, Hudson (NH) Speedway (quarter-mile paved) switched to modifieds. Three friends from Chelmsford, Mass. drove up to register cars they wanted to build. They were assigned the next three numbers: 176 (Bob Edwards), 177 (George Fish), 178 (Dan Dexter). Within a short time, so many cars had been built that a limit was established: Only the first 100 cars got into the pits on race day! Obviously, the failure of the midgets released a pent=up demand for affordable racing.

For those who followed the racing in that part of the world, Bob Edwards became a star in the "cutdowns" that ran Hudson, Dracut, the Pines, Manchester, West Peabody, etc. George Fish never ran very much. Dan Dexter's cars, with George Monsen at the wheel, became contenders on the dirt tracks of Northern Mass and Southern NH. Dan later became the crew chief on winning sprint cars, midgets, and supermodifieds.