Great Photo of Buzzie...

[Jim Fenton]

(Talk about a runaway thread)

Actually you're close to being on the money there Bob.

Adding to the trivia, guess who removed those tires and installed the asphalt rumble strips? - J.R. Fenton, Inc., my site development company during that time.

Now, my turn for demonstrating symptoms of CRS, I couldn't pin-point the year exactly but I'm thinking it would've been in the late 70's - very early 80's.

Does that fit with your return timing mentioned?

[Old Sunshine Fan]

(This is my third attempt at this - computer drops off when I hit SUBMIT)

YAAA HOOO, we are getting closer to me realizing my mind isn't gone completely over those damn sunk tires.

I didn't know you (JF) were involved with the rumble strips... I loved them, but a bunch of guys were cussing them at every turn.

Mike Cope put them in at BRONSON INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY shortly after he bought the place, but due to alot of crying from those that didn't / couldn't drive the high line, the rumble strips were removed BOO HOO.

Yes, this thread has gone astray... first it was a great pic of Buzzie, then it turned into a great pic of Wayne, the it went to the outside rail deal, then (I took it to the sunk tires), then onto rumble strips. Where should it go now?

Back to the original post (thanks Dave/Model Man0, it is a great pic of Buzzie - OOPS, I mean Wayne (or who ever the hell it was)... GREAT PIC

Whatever - however... those were the days I enjoyed racing more than ever...loved the cars, the spirit, the excitment (thanks JF)...I have a nephew who is always telling me that he thinks he was born too late because of all the things he has heard/seen from the old days....I can't help but to agree with him... he missed the greatest time of racing I have ever seen.

Thanks everyone for putting pic's and all up for us old SOB's - can't get enough of them...and JF... I read everyone of your post's... U DA MAN (OLD as hell, but still DA MAN).

P.S. Hey JF... what do you know of the Cherry Patch, that was for Dixie folks only.... ? Never mind... this post is about Buzzie/Wayne

[Jim Fenton]

(Since we’ve already gone this far off-topic)

"P.S. Hey JF... what do you know of the Cherry Patch, that was for Dixie folks only.... ?"

Pretty simple….at Seminole HS (where the quality chicks were) whenever one of us guys would lose a bet, or a race, or drew the short straw or whatever, the penalty was that we had to date a girl from Dixie Hollins HS (shudder). Of course the challenge there was to try to pick one where you wouldn’t have to go onto a regiment of Penicillin shots for the following week or two……

The Dixie girl would always ask; “are you taking me out to the ‘Therry Path’?” Once we figured out what the heck they were talking about due to the enunciation problems because of the teeth, we learned that y’all were taking those poor, hapless girls out there and tricking them out of their chastity with promises never fulfilled (play ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ here). Something we never did to the girls on our side of the tracks.


Now, to get things back on track here, I don’t know of a racing family that I respect more than the Reutimann’s.

Here is one of the most well written posts I’ve seen on a message board in a long time sent to me recently by a friend. Some great pics of Buzzie & family, etc. here in this thread also.

What You Need To Know About Buzzie Reutimann.
(Credit: Thanks R. Morse)

[Trash Inturn4]

What a great article about Buzzie, I believe the part about how the 00 number came to be, is incorrect. The way it happened is right ,except it was Buzzie's grandfather who told his dad, Emil, when he built his first race car, that it was a double nothing, way before Buzzie ever began to drive.

[Winger]

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Here is one of the most well written posts I’ve seen on a message board in a long time sent to me recently by a friend. Some great pics of Buzzie & family, etc. here in this thread also.

What You Need To Know About Buzzie Reutimann.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
(Credit: Thanks R. Morse)

Wow, I thought BJ and I were the only ones from Florida that visited that site. It was a great article though.