Driver Nickname Trivia

[John Berti]

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.

[John Berti]

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

[ancrdave]

Melvin "Puddin" Swisher

[Frasson118]

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

[Denman]

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

[ancrdave]

Blackie Watt... Won tons of races and track championships in PA over the years... Ran a few NASCAR races too...

[sprinter15jr]

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

[sprinter15jr]

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

[Frasson118]

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

[palmbayer]

Ron "Sleepy" Tripp

William "blackie" Watt

Mifflintown missile..Kieth Kauffman ??

[Denman]

Fritztown Flyer - Don Kreitz Sr

[sprinter15jr]

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

[John Berti]

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

[John Berti]

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.

[John Berti]

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.