Cool Photo

[ancrdave]

Everyone knows the exploits in racing of Country and Western legend Marty Robbins who ran many years at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway along with dabbling in NASCAR Grand Nationals as well... But here's a neat shot of C&W star Roy Drusky who also ran at Nashville against Marty, Coo Coo Marlin, Red Farmer and so many others from that era... neat to say the least!

[Old Sunshine Fan]

Super cool Dave, thanks for sharing. OSF

[egspeedway]

While todays wraps are quite striking, you really have to love the hand painted cars of the past especially when you see the quality shown here. Thanks for the picture and yes you do learn something new every day.

[zerofor]

.cool picture. So much great racing history from that track and era.

[Darren]

Loved racing be it local short track or NASCAR back in the day. Real cars. As someone already said, nothing beats the paint jobs from the day. I am thinking I had heard that Roy was a racer. CW music and stock car racing a unbeatable team. Yet just like the good old CW music and singers like Roy and short track racing those days are gone. Love that flag.

[ancrdave]

Nice shot of Marty Robbins' 1958 Plymouth...

[OldSchool+]

Back in the day at Orlando Speedway one of the Pullens, Harry maybe, had some big Chrysler product, a Desoto I think.

I remember it in semi flat black with a yellow 19 on it. Hemi powered, I would imagine.

Compared to the 55-57 Chevys it was big, slow off the corners, and very loose and very wide through the corners.

Back in the day they would try anything. Some cars you would see once or twice and that was it. And so it was with that car.

Also remember seeing...wait for it...a Darrin!

[ancrdave]

In 1964, both Harry and Charley Pullen built a pair of 1957 Chryslers... The cars had plenty of power but just weren't worth a darn in the handling department on the quarter-mile oval and they abandoned them after a few weeks... Charley retired from driving at that time while Harry built a succession of very fast Chevies that he won almost every week with it seemed like...
I've tried to find photos of those Chryslers but have never been able to do so... even Harry's daughter has no photos of those cars...

[OldSchool+]

Seems like they were two door hardtops, and went on forever...

Funny, seems like I can remember Harry winning a lot, mostly in '64 Chevelles, but I also can remember a lot of steaming radiators. Harry was known to go well beyond the "chrome horn" now and then.

He and JD Lewis. Either one pulled in, it was gonna be fun!

[Darren]

Maybe if the short tracks that we have left were still ... wait for it ... Old School they might last! lol

[OldSchool+]

Darren,

Auburndale has monster pulls and drifting and whatnot, but by and large, that is what is cool about short track racing.

It is closer to what it was in the '60s than most anything else one can think of.

No...?

[Darren]

You are very correct. They are using it to serve all type of car sports. Even a music event. Not for sure how they made out on that event, but they are doing something out of the box. Good for them and hope they do well.