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Originally Posted by speedy20
Bipes flipping through the fence between 1 and 2(really nasty). It was Leon who flipped in the back of a pick-up. What about the nite Skylar Hinkle flipped down the front stretch, I was scoring at the Burg at that time, we thought the worst had happened that nite. We stopped racing for the nite after that flip. The big "rivalry" between Staab and Thickstun who would win every week. Dont ever forget about, probably the nicest guys to every race at the Burg, Danny Milburn. I sure do miss him. Others you forgot to mention, Gary Gray, Joe Miller, Allan Barr, The Rice's, Mickey Smith, and Larry Bland. I'm probably leaving a bunch out. I don't remember Leon Thickstun driving for Hoffman, I remember him driving the Law Bros 77. Jeff Thickstun drove there on ocasions in the Bayless 17.
I look forward to driving my LM at the "New" Burg making it the fastest 3/8 track in the country. Can't wait go racing it should be intresting. What about the nite Jack Hewitt punched out Sammy Swindell after the HFC.
Jeff Simonton
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When naming names, Im always gonna forget some (Not because they weren't memerable. Of course I remember Bland in the black duece and Danny Milburn who over the years raced a little bit of everything. I even remember a pure stock named the Blue Mule with two horseshoes on the rear quarter
That night Hewitt decked Sammy was full well desereved, Sammy never did run the Burg again. That was the year of the USA-WOO split and Sammy was cherry picking including Ohio Speedweek
I remember clearly Larry Bland comming off four on a wheelie, setting it down about five feet from the wall and watching the car become a zig zag from the impact.
Indiana's Andy Hillenburg drove for Hoffman also but I believe that first year Rob was Chief. Leon did most of it. *I could be wrong*
We always talk about the good old days but ten years from now, Todays races are the good old days. Yeah there have been greats and sold out houses in all era's
Chuck, feeling a Marv Fish moment coming on