Let the racin' continue.
Checking in for a tie, each with five points, at the #14 spot on the HumpIdiot 500 countdown of the best old school NASCAR paint schemes are "Mr. Excitement" Jimmy Spencer and Walker/T.R.'s dad.
Usually the most exciting question was, how many cars would Jimmy take out?
Russianator, "A fat guy who always crashed...Mr. Excitement, sign me up."
Captain, "All chrome with red, yellow, and blue flames and the Wonderbread logo on the hood. Shake and bake baby, whooooo!!!"
Editor's Note: Technically might be outside of the "old school HumpIdiot Era", but then again we've never been sticklers for rules.
The Rest of the List
15. Ernie Irvan (4)
16: Kyle Petty Mello Yello 42 Car (3)
17 tie: Terry Labone Piedmont Airlines 44 Car (2)
17 tie: Bobby Allison Gatorade 88 Car (2)
18 tie: Larry Lambert and Ward Burton (1)
2 comments:
Jimmy Spencer's old #23 Smoking Joe's should hopefully, be somewhere on this list. Plus the guy punched out Kurt Busch. Not a bad thing in my opinion.
Oh, man. Spencer. That guy is a piece of work.
I remember when I was a kid -- couldn't have been older than 6 or 7 -- and going to watch Spencer run Modifieds up at Stafford Speedway in Connecticut.
Modifieds are a huge deal in Connecticut, and Stafford was a huge track for the series (the Arutes have owned Stafford for years and years and years and not only helped push the Modified division to where it is now, but also created the local SK circuit based on the Modifieds).
Anyway, Spencer was a big deal on the circuit. Geoff Bodine (another guy that came out of Modifieds to the big two circuits) shows up at Stafford one weekend for a feature. Bodine used to run at Stafford back in the day, although I can't remember if he ever ran against Spencer for a championship (probably, Spencer started in the late-70's -- but Bodine most likely ran against Spencer's father).
Anyway, it's like a 200-lap feature and, as a kid, I'm getting antsy. All of a sudden Spencer decides that he's going to the front and starts driving all over the fucking place. He finally gets up on Bodine and pops him right in the rear. Bodine gets sideways and over-corrects, collecting Spencer in his wake.
Rather than hang it up, Spencer hobbles into the infield, changes up his tires and dusts off his nerf bars, and wins the goddamn race.
That guy was a wonder in a Modified. Too bad he was terrible in the big, heavy stock cars and can't string a sentence together on SPEED.
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