Driver Nickname Trivia

[Frasson118]

Billy The Kid Pauch
The Quaker Shaker was Bob Cain (recently passed)
Barefoot Bob McCreadie
Cotton Owens
Crawfish Crider
Super Tex, AJ Foyt
Fonty Flock
Booker T Washington
Friday Hassler
Clifton CooCoo Marlin
Golden Boy Fred Lorenzen
Speedy Thompson
Leo The Lion Cleary
Roy Buckshot Jones
Bones Stevens
Bunkie Knudsen
Timmonsville Flash Cale Yarborough
Superman Matt Sheppard


Granny Tatroe's first name was Alice...

[Denman]

Few more from this end, mostly Northeast drivers, some go back a little. Time for thinking caps.

The Ad man
The Electrifying One
Spinner
Hop
The Flyin Flnn
Pancho
Flying Brian (mods)
Batman
The Quiet Man
Diff
The Jet (not Hearne)
Dutch (some midget rides)
Curley
Red (not Farmer)
Speedy

Best of Luck

[John Berti]

Billy The Kid Pauch
The Quaker Shaker was Bob Cain (recently passed)
Barefoot Bob McCreadie
Cotton Owens
Crawfish Crider
Super Tex, AJ Foyt
Fonty Flock
Booker T Washington
Friday Hassler
Clifton CooCoo Marlin
Golden Boy Fred Lorenzen
Speedy Thompson
Leo The Lion Cleary
Roy Buckshot Jones
Bones Stevens
Bunkie Knudsen
Timmonsville Flash Cale Yarborough
Superman Matt Sheppard


Granny Tatroe's first name was Alice...

Bunkie Knudsen was not a race car drivers as far as I know, just a GM executive. Try it again. This Bunkie I am thinking of was a famous race car driver.

You don't have the name correct for Booker T. who was a dear friend of mine and my family.

Sheppard is known as "Super Matt" even though he freely uses the Superman logo. The "Superman" I'm looking for was a successful NASCAR modified driver in the Northeast.

There are still some on the original list that haven't been solved.

I met Granny many, many years ago, back in my media days, when I came down from Massachusetts for the Daytona 500 and the World Series of Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna. We had a great chat at the track before she raced that evening. Wouldn't you just know it she won that night for her, what I believe, only win of her career. After the races I congratulated her on the win. She said I should come down more often as I'm her good luck charm.

[John Berti]

Few more from this end, mostly Northeast drivers, some go back a little. Time for thinking caps.

The Ad man
The Electrifying One
Spinner
Hop
The Flyin Flnn
Pancho
Flying Brian (mods)
Batman
The Quiet Man
Diff
The Jet (not Hearne)
Dutch (some midget rides)
Curley
Red (not Farmer)
Speedy

Best of Luck

You've got some tough ones on this list, but I know most of them.

Elvin "The Electrifying One" Felty
Mike "Spinner" Hansen
Ralph "Hop" Harrington
The Flyin' Finn - Reno Tulinen, Keke Roseberg
Duane "Pancho" Carter
"Flying Brian" Ross
Joe "The Quiet Man" Huffaker
Diff - Don Diffendorf - Donald J. Diffendorf, Sr., 83, passed away on April 21, 2012
Jaimie "The Jet" Tomaino
Edward "Dutch" Schaefer
"Red" - Could be many including Red Foote, Red Bolduc, Red Kimball, Red O'Keefe, Red Sequin, Red Longmore
"Speedy" could be several. Herb "Speedy" Thomas, Irwin "Speedy" Spiers, and Alfred "Speedy" Thompson immediately come to mind.

[Frasson118]

Another Flyin' Brian was Osgood. Also recently passed about 1-1/2 years ago.

Damn Berti & Denman... you guys know your stuff. Why haven't you been to the Mod Reunion where you can meet a bunch of these people???

[Frasson118]

Brain fart moment. It was Booker T JONES I was thinking of. After he quit racing, didn't he drive the track wrecker for another couple of decades?

[Osmosis Jones]

Okay

Heres a few for the west coasters.

The Pole Cat

The Mayor

Fuzzy

Sugarbear

Bonus Question:

Name all of the famous midwestern "Knights"

Bonus Bonus Question:

The One Arm Bandit

[John Berti]

Another Flyin' Brian was Osgood. Also recently passed about 1-1/2 years ago.

Damn Berti & Denman... you guys know your stuff. Why haven't you been to the Mod Reunion where you can meet a bunch of these people???

Went to Old Timers Day a few years back at New Smyrna Speedway. Got a chance to get together again with Ray Miller, Bugs Stevens, Leo Cleary, Ronnie Wyckoff, and a few others whose names escape me in my old age.

[John Berti]

Brain fart moment. It was Booker T JONES I was thinking of. After he quit racing, didn't he drive the track wrecker for another couple of decades?

I knew you'd get it right. Yes, Booker drove the tow truck at Stafford Motor Speedway. One of the nicest men you could ever meet and was my Uncle Dave's very best friend.

We lost Booker back in July 2003 if memory serves me correct. I really missed not going to his garage on Walnut St. in Springfield, MA after he died. I used to go see him every week. He was so great to be around. Use to also see him a lot at Mario Fiore's garage at Gasoline Alley in Agawam, MA across from Riverside Park.

[Frasson118]

The Flying Milkman
The Flying Florist
"Marvelous"
"Ole Bones"
The Pine
The One Armed Bandit
The Tempe Tornado
The Everett Express
The Shillington Slingshot
Fast Freddie
"Slammin..."
The Flying Padre
The Hammer... not Danny Martin Jr.
Ziggy
Birky
Cookie Monster
Super CD
Stroker
The Bear

[John Berti]

The Flying Milkman
The Flying Florist
"Marvelous"
"Ole Bones"
The Pine
The One Armed Bandit
The Tempe Tornado
The Everett Express
The Shillington Slingshot
Fast Freddie
"Slammin..."
The Flying Padre
The Hammer... not Danny Martin Jr.
Ziggy
Birky
Cookie Monster
Super CD
Stroker
The Bear

The Flying Milkman - Kenny Moore
The Flying Florist - Roger Treichler
Marvelous - Marvelous Merv Treichler
Ole Bones - Dave Kneisel
The Pine - Jimmy Shampine
The One Armed Bandit - Chuck Amati
The Tempe Tornado - Leland McSpadden
The Everett Express - Gerald Chamberlain
The Shillington Slingshot - Kenny Brightbill
Fast Freddie - Fred Rahmer
Slammin' - Sammy Swindell
Cookie Monster - Jerry Cook
Super CD - Clarence CD Coville
Birky- Brian Birkhofer

I did go to quite a few dirt track races and many of these drivers were great dirt track racers. I missed a few, however.

[palmbayer]

Mr. Invitational was Bob Wearing

Ziggy...George Snyder

Now,How about....

Boom Boom ?

Scruffy ?

Smokey ? (Think 70's sprint car driver)

The Gas Man ? ( think Indy car)

Pancho ?

The Apollo Rocket ?

[Tweety16]

Larry "boom Boom" Cannon
Bobby "Scruffy" Allen
Smokey Snellbaker sp?
Tom "The Gasman" Sneva
Duane "Pancho" Carter

[Frasson118]

Larry Boom Boom Cannon
Scruffy Bobby Allen
Larry Smokey Snellbaker
Gas Man... 2 of them. Indy cars was Tom Sneva, Sprint cars it's Richard Griffin
Duane Pancho Carter
Ed "The Apollo Rocket" Lynch Sr.

The few that Berti missed were

The Flying Padre was Father Jerry Ward, an active military Chaplain at the time.
The Hammer was Marcel LaFrance
Stroker McGuirk, LM racer in NY and Canada
Jerry The Bear Makara, Midwest LM standout.

[John Berti]

Billy The Kid Pauch
The Quaker Shaker was Bob Cain (recently passed)
Barefoot Bob McCreadie
Cotton Owens
Crawfish Crider
Super Tex, AJ Foyt
Fonty Flock
Booker T Washington
Friday Hassler
Clifton CooCoo Marlin
Golden Boy Fred Lorenzen
Speedy Thompson
Leo The Lion Cleary
Roy Buckshot Jones
Bones Stevens
Bunkie Knudsen
Timmonsville Flash Cale Yarborough
Superman Matt Sheppard


Granny Tatroe's first name was Alice...

The Bunkie I was looking for was James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn. He raced in the NASCAR Grand National Division from 1960-70. He won the 1968 Daytona 300 for Busch Series cars. He drove for Smokey Yunick and Richard Petty.