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Tom M. Board Moderator
Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 602
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:42 pm Post subject: Hearing that David Pearson passed today. RIP |
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He was 83. I knew he had been in poor health for a couple of years but this is a shock. |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1578
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Just saw that too.
My number one memory of Pearson........driving the Woods 71 Mercury at Charlotte National 500.......leading with a good lead....I was sitting in the grass triangle at the exit of turn two. I could see into the car....David was driving with one had on the top of the wheel with right hand resting on the roll cage......cigarette in hand. A TRUE Sunday drive.
Another great lost. RIP |
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George Andrews
Joined: 30 Jan 2018 Posts: 460
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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WOW ... He did some of his best work at the harder tracks -- Darlington and Riverside. R.I.P. David... |
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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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When I really got interested in NASCAR in the '70s he was my favorite. R.I.P. _________________ Bill Jobson is my real name. |
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Henryjint
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 1970 Location: NY State's Hudson Valley
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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RIP one of the best. Glad I was able to see some of his wins at Trenton, Pocono and Dover. _________________ Forum member since 10/25/2010 |
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Bobby The Cabdriver
Joined: 19 Oct 2018 Posts: 388 Location: " Keep Austin Weird?"ugh...
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:35 pm Post subject: Hearing that David Pearson passed away today |
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Thanks for the Memories Silver Fox! Watching the Finish of the 76 Daytona 500 live on ABC with my grandmother, who always said how handsome he was.... _________________ "And on the 8th day God created the Hemi!" |
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Bill J
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 393
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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RIP David. Always my favorite all time driver. A lot of memories, all good.
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BVAUGHN
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 504
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Remember David had Wood Brothers install a cigarette lighter in his race car so he could smoke during cautions.
Remember too, several years ago you could find David, Bud Moore and Cotton Owens having lunch at Peach Blossom diner several days a week.
Guess they will be together again now thru eternity.
RIP Silver Fox.
Racing lost another hero
Bill |
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DPalmer4343
Joined: 10 May 2018 Posts: 28
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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Grew up a Petty fan, but admired Pearson to no end. The 76 Daytona 500 lives in my head today as if it happened yesterday. He was a class act.
Alas, I fear that we shall soon be seeing many of our childhood heroes fade into the distance. That's the trouble with getting old, your childhood heroes get older too. Cale and Bobby and Richard....A.J and the Unsers. I watch the races today and tell my kid about the "good old days" and who the "Big Three" really were.
God speed, Silver fox |
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odcics2
Joined: 09 Feb 2018 Posts: 283
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Had lunch with him and Cotton at the Peach Blossom in 2011.
Good sense of humor!
He'll be missed! |
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Mark C.
Joined: 16 Feb 2018 Posts: 182
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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RIP
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1578
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Mark C. wrote: | RIP
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When cars were cars and MEN were MEN!!!! |
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AlanGTX
Joined: 13 Nov 2018 Posts: 14 Location: Eastbourne, UK
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:24 pm Post subject: David Pearson |
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A couple of good memories:
Calling David at home from England and being able to ask him what it was like to hustle the cars around the tracks in the 60's - pure gold listening to him
At the second Legends meeting at Darlington, finding I was behind him in the rest room, in the garage area, waiting to dry my hands! Later got to meet him at the autograph session - a top man, and a hero of mine
he's one of a few legends from that era that's come to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, here in the UK, a joy to see him here with the #21 Mercury Cyclone
Spookily, my project on the bench this last month is his '62 #3 Pontiac |
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Bobby The Cabdriver
Joined: 19 Oct 2018 Posts: 388 Location: " Keep Austin Weird?"ugh...
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:03 pm Post subject: David Pearson passed away today |
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Yeah mate, I know what you mean. I just ordered a set of Cyclone decals from Mike. I have the project sitting on my shelf for 4 years and within days of ordering the decals.... Thanks for the Memories! And for all you guys with all your great pictures, let's see them! That's what this form is all , right? Especially 1966, with his first championship in Cotton's dodges. _________________ "And on the 8th day God created the Hemi!" |
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bangor boy
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 451
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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BVAUGHN wrote: | Remember David had Wood Brothers install a cigarette lighter in his race car so he could smoke during cautions.
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The lighter was a regular feature well before that. On the Cotton Owens site, there's an interior shot that shows a lighter on his title-winning Charger dash.
Was standard equipment in his Holman Moody Torinos, too.
Wonder if any (coffbradcoff) driver (coff-olowski) this year is contemplating a tribute to Pearson with a mid-race vape? |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1578
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:58 am Post subject: |
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I do wish the Woods would run a white with red #21 this weekend...... |
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Bobby The Cabdriver
Joined: 19 Oct 2018 Posts: 388 Location: " Keep Austin Weird?"ugh...
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:22 am Post subject: David Pearson passed away today |
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Let's just hope idiot NASCAR media does a fitting tribute. The only guy in the whole field that can hold a candle to any of the Stars of the time we are all immersed in is Kevin Harvick, but even he would be fighting for 5th behind Pearson, Petty, Yarbrough and Bobby Allison. It's a sad day in many ways. _________________ "And on the 8th day God created the Hemi!" |
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jim unger
Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 45 Location: Rhinelander WI
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Back in the mid-80s when Larry was running some ASA and Busch races in Milwaukee, I was with my best friend, Mike Dowd, and way down in the pits sitting all alone on the pit wall were David and Larry smoking. We walked up to them and they entertained us for about 1/2 hour. He was a very genuine man, low keyed, but man could he drive a race car! I was always a MOPAR man back then but always like and respected the Silver Fox. He, Petty, the Allison boys, and Cale were at their best back then and I don't feel that any of the current drivers could drive with those boys.
RIP Silver Fox, you will be missed. _________________ On the bench:
Daytona 500 winners
Bobby Allison Dark Side rides
Petty/Wood Brothers tribute |
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DaveVan
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