General Chat
Q:
Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, several southern TV stations
are joining together and are planning to do their own, entitled
"Survivor: Southern Style."
The contestants will start in Alabama, travel over to Georgia and on to
South Carolina. >From there they will head up to North Carolina and over to
Tennessee.
They will then proceed down to Mississippi and Louisiana.
Finally ending up back over in Alabama.
Each will be driving a pink Volvo with New Jersey license plates and large
bumper stickers that read:
I'm Gay,
I'm a Vegetarian,
NASCAR Sucks,
Go Yankees!
Smoking is for Idiots,
Hillary in 2008,
Deer Hunting is Murder,
and I'm Here to Confiscate Your Guns!
The first one that makes it back to Montgomery alive, wins!
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Me YORGO...You Not
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Yorgo,
I don't think anyone would survive. Also, I can think of some other states that are not in the South where they probably wouldn't survive either.
Rich1
90TT
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Comrade...is YORGO, noy Yorgo.
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Me YORGO...You Not
Post Edited (Jan 17, 2:35pm)
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More people in the midwest would be against those than the south I'm willing to bet. Indiana has the most smokers and NASCAR support than anywhere else in the nation per person I'd also bet.
19[TT]91
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aka SAHTT
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i disagree... nascar didnt start in indiana for a reason... thank you to south carolina for that.
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1986 300zx na slicktop
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Nascar started out in Daytona Beach Fla. in the late 1930's......
Jimmy
83ZX Turbo
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a republican joke..........
73' 240z: F54 4.2L, OS Giken LY DOHC Crossflow head, 17:3comp.ratio, N33, Tripple SU's, T10 Hybrid Draw-Through TT @ 47pds, Roots&Centrifugal Type supercharger, 3-2-1 headers, Centerforce 4 clutch, 6oz flywheel, R300 differential, Super-Hicas
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Nascar started in the Carolina and Virginia Piedmont regions and it grew out of the bootlegging/moonshine trade in which souped up cars ran the merchandise. Several of the early drivers at one time or another ran moonshine.
76', 4 Speed, CAI, 6 into 2 Headers
Of all the things I've lost in life I miss my mind the most.
Post Edited (Jan 17, 6:07pm)
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Go to Nacar.com and look up the History, there was lot of moon shiners in it back then.
Jimmy
83ZX Turbo
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Try the deer hunting one in Michigan!
1976 280Z
Draw-Through Turbo, 10 PSI, 4 Bbl Holley, E88, L28 (Flat), 10:1 CR, 5 Spd
1974 Corvette Stingray:
350, 400 Automatic, T-Tops, 8.5:1 CR, 78,000 Miles
1994 Acura Integra:
1.8L, 5 Spd, 189,000 and Counting!
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All,
I live near Mooresville, NC, where a lot of the NASCAR teams are located. Not being from around here I asked why they were located here and not somewhere else in the South. Apperently, it was because the whole stock car thing originally started as a result of the moonshine runs from North Wilksboro, NC to Charlotte, NC. The reason that Mooresville became Race City USA (that's what it is called around here) is because Cornelius, which is closer to Charlotte, did not want the teams. Appearenly, the whole thing was pretty shady in the begining, with some teams funding their racing efforts through moonshine profits. Beleive me, they take this stuff pretty serious around here.
Rich1
90TT
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RICH1 - Finally someone who has the real story. I grew up around Jacksonville, NC and I had heard that a long time ago. Face it, North Carolinians had to start NASCAR. We're the best drivers. Just look at some of our roads and you'd understand why...
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77 280Z - TEC3 Engine Management, Coil Packs, 3.1 Stroker, 550CC injectors, tripple throttle body FI intake, MSA Stage II Cam, etc...etc...
79 Fairlady - Rusty
81 280ZX - DD
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Founded more than 50 years ago, NASCAR has become one of the hottest spectator sports in the world. In the years following World War II, stock car racing began to grow. Stock car racing was experiencing the greatest popularity it had ever seen. Tracks all over the country were drawing more drivers to race in front of bigger crowds. But there was very little organization and no consistency in the rules between tracks. From track to track, rules were different. Some tracks were just makeshift facilities, built to produce one big show at a county fair or something similar to capitalize on the crowds flocking to the events. Other tracks were more suited to handle the cars, but not the crowds. Some could manage both, but did little to adhere to rules set by neighboring tracks.
In December of 1947, Bill France Sr., of Daytona Beach, Fla., organized a meeting at the Streamline Hotel in town to discuss the matters facing stock car racing. France had come to Florida from Washington, D.C., years earlier and operated a local service station as well as promote events on the city's famed beach course that he often raced in himself. From that simple meeting, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was born. Few knew when the meeting adjourned if the organization would be successful. In fact there were skeptics who believed it never would work. Not even France, who believed a sanctioning body was exactly what the sport of stock car racing needed, could have envisioned what NASCAR has become today.
Things came together quickly. The first NASCAR-sanctioned race was held on Daytona's beach course Feb. 15, 1948, just two months after the organizational meeting. Red Byron, a stock car legend from Atlanta, won the event in his Ford Modified. Six days later on Feb. 21, 1948, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was incorporated. It was 1949, however, when what is now the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, the premier racing division in America, was born. The first event featured a $5,000 purse and was held on a two-mile circular course in southern Florida followed by a 150 mile race at the three-quarter-mile Charlotte Speedway in which Jim Roper of Great Bend, Kan., was the winner. A tremendous crowd attended the event to see automobiles with the appearance of a street car race door-to-door. The new racing series was off and running. And it was an immediate success. Eight events in all were held in 1949.
All from thi site http://www.racehippie.com/nascar-history/history-of-nascar.php
Jimmy
83ZX Turbo
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Yeah yeah. History books are written by whom? Carolinians know where NASCAR was born. :D
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77 280Z - TEC3 Engine Management, Coil Packs, 3.1 Stroker, 550CC injectors, tripple throttle body FI intake, MSA Stage II Cam, etc...etc...
79 Fairlady - Rusty
81 280ZX - DD
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jimmy, there is a big difference between the first NASCAR-sanctioned race vs. were stock car racing actually started. Us hillbillys didn't just sign up for the NASCAR circuit and head to daytona without plenty of practice racing around our mountains. Normally from cops, so the stakes were very high, people either became very good or got locked up but many died in bad crashes. There are still rusted out shine running cars mangled down in the bottom of some of our valleys, covered with Kudzu mostly.
There are still, no pun intended, people making shine in the appalachians but running it so not much of a problem anymore.
Matt