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  • Originally posted by John Berti View Post
    Here's some more nicknames to keep you busy:

    Superman - Looking for the modified driver
    Crawfish
    Fonty
    Super Tex
    Bubble Gum Joe
    Booker T
    Friday
    Bones
    Wasa Wasa Kid
    Golden Boy
    King of Southern Modifieds
    Cotton
    Speedy
    Hoppy
    The Lion
    Bearfoot
    Iron Man of Windham
    Buckshot
    Bunkie
    Gentleman Jimmy
    Coo Coo
    Florida Hurricane
    June Bug
    Timmonsville Flash
    Answers to the ones no one got:

    Superman - Greg Sacks in the days of the Ernie Wilberg #5. What a run he had.
    Bubble Gum Joe - Joe Bubbico
    Wasa Wasa Kid - Ron Bouchard
    Golden Boy - Fred Lorenzen
    King of the Southern Modifieds - Junior Miller
    Hoppy - Hoppy Jensen
    Ironman of Windham - Dick Wohlstenhume, one of Maine's all time greats.
    Gentleman Jimmy - Jimmy Hensley
    Florida Hurricane - Bill Snowden
    June Bug - Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

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    • Originally posted by palmbayer View Post
      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 ?
      The Apollo Rocket - A couple of possibilities here: Ed Lynch, Josh Hohenforst

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      • Melvin "Puddin" Swisher
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        • How about:

          "Blackie"... I know of at least 2
          The Onion
          "Sandy"
          "Bushy"
          The Shoe
          Puddin'
          Hollywood
          Grumpy
          Sleepy
          Dopey.... (Jeremy Mayfield...!)
          Happy
          Doc ... again I can think of a few
          Herm
          Magic shoes
          Cynderella (trick question)
          Fritz
          The Cruiser

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          • F118 - Yes I also attended the re-union but arrived too late as they were just loading up. Problem is my family loves the trucks at Daytona, so that has become our Friday event. I try to get to DAARA whenever plus the group in Tampa. Well just a few answers this time;

            Blackiie Wangerin
            Onion Todd Bodine
            Shoe Kenny Shoemaker

            The others which I neede answers for are:
            Dave Quiet Man Humphries - NEMA
            Joe Coverdale - The ad man
            Troy Robinson - Batman (called at Citrus & PGS,)

            Here are a few more mostly the Northeast again:

            Moon
            Dude
            Another Wild Bill (midgets)
            Grummy
            Norwalk Nightrider
            Sonny
            Hully
            Skip
            Wild Man
            Hoss Hayes (sorry had to throw a trick question in ther)
            Chuggy
            Mousey

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            • Blackie Watt... Won tons of races and track championships in PA over the years... Ran a few NASCAR races too...
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              • Originally posted by Frasson118 View Post
                How about:

                "Blackie"... I know of at least 2
                The Onion
                "Sandy"
                "Bushy"
                The Shoe
                Puddin'
                Hollywood
                Grumpy
                Sleepy
                Dopey.... (Jeremy Mayfield...!)
                Happy
                Doc ... again I can think of a few
                Herm
                Magic shoes
                Cynderella (trick question)
                Fritz
                The Cruiser
                Paul " Sandy" Rochelle
                Ron "the shoe" Schuman
                "magic shoes" Mike McLaughlin
                Fritz Epright
                sigpicTurn right to go left...Racing as it was meant to be!
                www.stynermotorsports.com

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                • Here's some for you guys...........

                  Northeast:

                  Big Tom
                  Stan the Man
                  Liquid Lou
                  Handsome Harry
                  the Shillington Slingshot
                  Crazy Wheels
                  Mr. Dirt
                  Nokie
                  Mifflintown Missle
                  Fritztown Flyer
                  Flaps
                  Canada Joe
                  Sizzle
                  Fuzzy

                  Some other outside the northeast:
                  Double Down
                  the Rocket
                  Wildchild
                  sigpicTurn right to go left...Racing as it was meant to be!
                  www.stynermotorsports.com

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                  • Big Tom Hager, also known as "Beef"
                    Stan the Man Ploski
                    Liquid Lou Cicconi
                    Handsome Harry Peek
                    Kenny "Shillington Slingshot" Brightbill
                    Mr. Dirt, Billy Decker
                    Nick "Nokie" Fornoro
                    Canada Joe Plazek
                    Carl "Fuzzy" Van Horn

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                    • Ron "Sleepy" Tripp

                      William "blackie" Watt

                      Mifflintown missile..Kieth Kauffman ??
                      "I watch figure skating for the crashes"

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                      • Fritztown Flyer - Don Kreitz Sr

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                        • Originally posted by Frasson118 View Post
                          Big Tom Hager, also known as "Beef"
                          Stan the Man Ploski
                          Liquid Lou Cicconi
                          Handsome Harry Peek
                          Kenny "Shillington Slingshot" Brightbill
                          Mr. Dirt, Billy Decker
                          Nick "Nokie" Fornoro
                          Canada Joe Plazek
                          Carl "Fuzzy" Van Horn
                          pretty good Frasson... but wrong ones for:
                          Handsome( think midgets)
                          Mr. Dirt( think old school)

                          I know you will get the others also....if you think "old school"

                          Denman and palmbayer.....both correct
                          sigpicTurn right to go left...Racing as it was meant to be!
                          www.stynermotorsports.com

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                          • Originally posted by Denman View Post
                            F118 - Yes I also attended the re-union but arrived too late as they were just loading up. Problem is my family loves the trucks at Daytona, so that has become our Friday event. I try to get to DAARA whenever plus the group in Tampa. Well just a few answers this time;

                            Blackiie Wangerin
                            Onion Todd Bodine
                            Shoe Kenny Shoemaker

                            The others which I neede answers for are:
                            Dave Quiet Man Humphries - NEMA
                            Joe Coverdale - The ad man
                            Troy Robinson - Batman (called at Citrus & PGS,)

                            Here are a few more mostly the Northeast again:

                            Moon
                            Dude
                            Another Wild Bill (midgets)
                            Grummy
                            Norwalk Nightrider
                            Sonny
                            Hully
                            Skip
                            Wild Man
                            Hoss Hayes (sorry had to throw a trick question in ther)
                            Chuggy
                            Mousey
                            Richard "Moon" Burgess
                            Dude Teate
                            "Wild Bil"l Cummings
                            Norwalk Nightrider - Bill Sweet
                            Ernest Lloyd "Sonny" Hutchins, Sonny O'Sullivan
                            Raymond "Hully" Bunn
                            Skip - Skip Barna, Skip Hanaker, Skip Barber
                            Wildman - Billy Moyer, Dan Schlieper
                            Charlie "Chuggy" Savage
                            Calvin "Mousey" Kempster

                            Got no idea about "Grummy" and Hoss Hayes

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                            • Originally posted by Frasson118 View Post
                              How about:

                              "Blackie"... I know of at least 2
                              The Onion
                              "Sandy"
                              "Bushy"
                              The Shoe
                              Puddin'
                              Hollywood
                              Grumpy
                              Sleepy
                              Dopey.... (Jeremy Mayfield...!)
                              Happy
                              Doc ... again I can think of a few
                              Herm
                              Magic shoes
                              Cynderella (trick question)
                              Fritz
                              The Cruiser
                              Blackie - Thurmond "Blackie" Blackard, Blackie Watt
                              Mark "Bushy" Bliss
                              Hollywood - Gregory Kanter, Ron Davis at Sunshine, Mike Hess
                              The Shoe - Kenny Shoemaker
                              Melvin "Puddin" Swisher
                              Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, drag racer
                              Sleepy - Rick Knapp, Ron Tripp
                              Happy - Kevin Harvick, Happy Florian who races at Citrus County Speedway
                              Doc - Dick Berggren, John Tyler,
                              Herm - Kenny Wallace
                              Mike "Magic Shoes" McLaughlin
                              Corey "The Cruiser" Kruseman

                              Don't know for the life of me who Sandy, Dopey, Cynderella and Fritz might be.

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                              • Originally posted by sprinter15jr View Post
                                Here's some for you guys...........

                                Northeast:

                                Big Tom
                                Stan the Man
                                Liquid Lou
                                Handsome Harry
                                the Shillington Slingshot
                                Crazy Wheels
                                Mr. Dirt
                                Nokie
                                Mifflintown Missle
                                Fritztown Flyer
                                Flaps
                                Canada Joe
                                Sizzle
                                Fuzzy

                                Some other outside the northeast:
                                Double Down
                                the Rocket
                                Wildchild
                                Big Tom - Tom Hager
                                Stan the Man Disbrow
                                "Liquid Lou" Ciccone
                                Handsome Harry Peek
                                Sizzle or do you mean Captain Sizzle - Mark Malcuit
                                Carl "Fuzzy" Van Horn
                                Double Down - Jason Sides
                                Rob "The Rocket" Keelan, but there must have been literally 100s of drivers nicknamed "The Rocket"
                                Jac "Wild Child" Haudenschild

                                Many of the others were previously guessed.
                                Last edited by John Berti; 08-10-2012, 05:39 PM.

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