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Hearing that David Pearson passed today. RIP

 
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Tom M.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:42 pm    Post subject: Hearing that David Pearson passed today. RIP Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW ... Sad He did some of his best work at the harder tracks -- Darlington and Riverside. R.I.P. David...
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I really got interested in NASCAR in the '70s he was my favorite. R.I.P.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIP one of the best. Glad I was able to see some of his wins at Trenton, Pocono and Dover.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:35 pm    Post subject: Hearing that David Pearson passed away today Reply with quote

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....
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIP David. Always my favorite all time driver. A lot of memories, all good.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Had lunch with him and Cotton at the Peach Blossom in 2011.
Good sense of humor!

He'll be missed!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIP

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark C. wrote:
RIP


When cars were cars and MEN were MEN!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:24 pm    Post subject: David Pearson Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:03 pm    Post subject: David Pearson passed away today Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BVAUGHN wrote:
Remember David had Wood Brothers install a cigarette lighter in his race car so he could smoke during cautions.
Bill


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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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do wish the Woods would run a white with red #21 this weekend......
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:22 am    Post subject: David Pearson passed away today Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is one from Hemmings......watch the video.....a TRUE GOOD OLE BOY!!!!
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/11/14/three-time-nascar-cup-series-champion-david-pearson-1934-2018/?refer=news
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