Jerry Lee
01-20-2010, 04:43 PM
Well my friends, I knew the inevitable had to come someday. Looks like today's that day. I reach into my dusty box of tapes for this week's interview and find there's nothing there. It's empty.
For the last 9 months we've "heard" 40 sides of a story which gave us a little more insight into our own Colorado auto racing history. I've always believed the best thing about The Two Minute Interview was that it was them telling their story and not me telling you what they might have said or done. It's been a lot of fun to share these tapes I had tucked away in storage with an audience who showed an interest. I know a lot of you liked "listening" to your local faves as much as I did talking to them.
I've had some thought of reviving the T.M.I. with some fresh new interviews in the future, but for now, I leave you with what has been......and these following little clips that for one reason or another never quite made it in......
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John 'Crash' Mullins: "A little story about Larry Woodhead. He went fishing one week and loaned me his car. I destroyed it. He never went fishing again."
Don Wilson: "I used to run a Late Model for a guy named Bart Manley. Him and his wife had twin cars. Bart was a hell of a guy. I drove her car and Bart of course drove his own car. He'd let me set her car up to race it and then go and change the numbers on it the next week."
Lee Stogsdill: "30 bucks to win a main? That's a bunch of $#*+! That wouldn't even buy a damn tire! So we all went on strike!"
Tom Pryor, Sr.: "This guy put an oxygen bottle in his car, thought he was gonna break a track record or something. He made a few laps and kicked it on. Went straight into the wall. He didn't prove anything. Made a lot of racket and that was about it."
Junior Reeder: "There was one incident with Terry Boyle. He said something after the races, and it was Pollock that was starting the whole mess, but Boyle ran and hid in the backseat of his car and we were beating him to death with his own seatbelts."
Lynn Jones: "I don't know what was up with ol' Clifton! He hit me four or five times in that race then he went off the track in one of the turns. Next thing I know, he come flying off that dirt turn and landed right on top of me!"
Bob Land: "One of the wildest things I remember at Lakeside was Fritz Wilson's 3 wheel main event win. They black flagged him for it though."
Darrell Smith: "Yeah, we used to get swacked after the races. I was partying too much and left my car in the pits over night. I came back the next day and some of them Modified guys had tipped the car upside down and left it on it's top."
Tommy Darrow: "The only reason me and Jim Coffey went back into it in '79 was that they kept calling us "old men". So I went out and won the championship. Old man my a$$."
Dale Deter: "Y'know Jack Voorhis was a super nice guy. He was a wild driver and a wonderful cook."
John 'Crash' Mullins: "Bobby Jackson saved my butt one time at Ollie's Round-Up. I got lit up and was giving these cowboys a bad time. He was a great kid, he talked them out of a fight. He was super!"
Pete Stringer: "There's good luck and bad luck. And then there's dumb luck."
Lucky Beickman: "When streaking was a fad in the '70's, a few of us decided to run naked out at the track. So no one would recognize us we all wore our helmets. I was the first to get in trouble because I forgot that my name was painted on the back of my helmet."
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My thanks to the 40 guys who took the time to share their stories with me over the years. (I'll post their names here later)
Also a super-special thanks to my Dad (Senior ARM member) Olen McGuire for posting ALL my photos, Mitch Guttormson and Bob Land for help and info, all the ARM members for your comments and photos you've added to the interviews, and Eric for providing this cool place to share these special memories that we (and hopefully future generations) will cherish for years to come.
I'm going to let one of my all time local faves have the last word here:
Pete Brandenburg: "How long did you say this interview was supposed to be? Two minutes? Ohhhh, well then you have plenty to cover that."
For the last 9 months we've "heard" 40 sides of a story which gave us a little more insight into our own Colorado auto racing history. I've always believed the best thing about The Two Minute Interview was that it was them telling their story and not me telling you what they might have said or done. It's been a lot of fun to share these tapes I had tucked away in storage with an audience who showed an interest. I know a lot of you liked "listening" to your local faves as much as I did talking to them.
I've had some thought of reviving the T.M.I. with some fresh new interviews in the future, but for now, I leave you with what has been......and these following little clips that for one reason or another never quite made it in......
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John 'Crash' Mullins: "A little story about Larry Woodhead. He went fishing one week and loaned me his car. I destroyed it. He never went fishing again."
Don Wilson: "I used to run a Late Model for a guy named Bart Manley. Him and his wife had twin cars. Bart was a hell of a guy. I drove her car and Bart of course drove his own car. He'd let me set her car up to race it and then go and change the numbers on it the next week."
Lee Stogsdill: "30 bucks to win a main? That's a bunch of $#*+! That wouldn't even buy a damn tire! So we all went on strike!"
Tom Pryor, Sr.: "This guy put an oxygen bottle in his car, thought he was gonna break a track record or something. He made a few laps and kicked it on. Went straight into the wall. He didn't prove anything. Made a lot of racket and that was about it."
Junior Reeder: "There was one incident with Terry Boyle. He said something after the races, and it was Pollock that was starting the whole mess, but Boyle ran and hid in the backseat of his car and we were beating him to death with his own seatbelts."
Lynn Jones: "I don't know what was up with ol' Clifton! He hit me four or five times in that race then he went off the track in one of the turns. Next thing I know, he come flying off that dirt turn and landed right on top of me!"
Bob Land: "One of the wildest things I remember at Lakeside was Fritz Wilson's 3 wheel main event win. They black flagged him for it though."
Darrell Smith: "Yeah, we used to get swacked after the races. I was partying too much and left my car in the pits over night. I came back the next day and some of them Modified guys had tipped the car upside down and left it on it's top."
Tommy Darrow: "The only reason me and Jim Coffey went back into it in '79 was that they kept calling us "old men". So I went out and won the championship. Old man my a$$."
Dale Deter: "Y'know Jack Voorhis was a super nice guy. He was a wild driver and a wonderful cook."
John 'Crash' Mullins: "Bobby Jackson saved my butt one time at Ollie's Round-Up. I got lit up and was giving these cowboys a bad time. He was a great kid, he talked them out of a fight. He was super!"
Pete Stringer: "There's good luck and bad luck. And then there's dumb luck."
Lucky Beickman: "When streaking was a fad in the '70's, a few of us decided to run naked out at the track. So no one would recognize us we all wore our helmets. I was the first to get in trouble because I forgot that my name was painted on the back of my helmet."
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My thanks to the 40 guys who took the time to share their stories with me over the years. (I'll post their names here later)
Also a super-special thanks to my Dad (Senior ARM member) Olen McGuire for posting ALL my photos, Mitch Guttormson and Bob Land for help and info, all the ARM members for your comments and photos you've added to the interviews, and Eric for providing this cool place to share these special memories that we (and hopefully future generations) will cherish for years to come.
I'm going to let one of my all time local faves have the last word here:
Pete Brandenburg: "How long did you say this interview was supposed to be? Two minutes? Ohhhh, well then you have plenty to cover that."