RIP Burt Reynolds

[chuckrh]

he's off to the cadillac ranch....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlzDfUqFyYQ

[Zip City]

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Makes me laugh every single time!

Used Turd Ferguson as a screen name on a GD site in the past

[John A Arkansawyer]

Makes me laugh every single time!

Used Turd Ferguson as a screen name on a GD site in the past

I posted that very video on the DBT Facebook page!

[LBRod]

[bovine knievel]

He was one of my favorites!

[chuckrh]

norm macdonald is a comedic genius. looking forward to whatever he is putting on netflix.

[LBRod]

[Flea]

Damn shame. I think he had been cast in Tarentino's next film as well.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Handsome Harry Gant!!!

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

norm macdonald is a comedic genius. looking forward to whatever he is putting on netflix.

There was a good piece on him in last week’s NYT Magazine

[roland]

Man, this one hurts. Stroker Ace is chasing Dale around the oval.

[211poundsofpork]

He was one of my favorites!

Legend. He will be missed.

[John A Arkansawyer]

There's never a wrong time to listen to some Jerry Reed:

[jr29]

Handsome Harry Gant!!!

If Harry would have gone NASCAR racing earlier in life the record books would look a lot different. He didn't really start racing in Winston Cup until he was past 40. Harry, Jody Ridley, Larry Phillips, Dick Trickle, Richie Evans and a lot of others made really good livings in the 1960's-1970's racing short tracks closer to their homes. Those guys could very easily be remembered the same way Petty, Pearson, Waltrip, Allison, etc are remembered if a little different hand had been dealt.


Sorry for hijacking the Reynolds thread. The opening scene in White Lightning scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[Tequila Cowboy]

I had a crazy aunt who, when Burt did his Playgirl centerfold, decided to have it framed and give it to my cousins (her nieces) who were pre-teens at the time and hang it on their bedroom wall. Their parents sort of objected but said fuck it and left it there leaving the rest of my family to erupt in moral outrage. If was funny as fuck. RIP Burt.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Handsome Harry Gant!!!

If Harry would have gone NASCAR racing earlier in life the record books would look a lot different. He didn't really start racing in Winston Cup until he was past 40. Harry, Jody Ridley, Larry Phillips, Dick Trickle, Richie Evans and a lot of others made really good livings in the 1960's-1970's racing short tracks closer to their homes. Those guys could very easily be remembered the same way Petty, Pearson, Waltrip, Allison, etc are remembered if a little different hand had been dealt.


Sorry for hijacking the Reynolds thread. The opening scene in White Lightning scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

Indeed, I almost mentioned how as a kid he was a fixture at Asheville on Friday nights and Hickory on Saturday. Along with the guys you mentioned, local late model legends where I lived were Ironman Jack Ingram, Tommy Houston, Butch Lindley, and Robert Pressley. Was a huge fan of the Ironman

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I had a crazy aunt who, when Burt did his Playgirl centerfold, decided to have it framed and give it to my cousins (her nieces) who were pre-teens at the time and hang it on their bedroom wall. Their parents sort of objected but said fuck it and left it there leaving the rest of my family to erupt in moral outrage. If was funny as fuck. RIP Burt.

That centerfold was a brief plot line in a Orange is the New Black episode this season

[Flea]

Handsome Harry Gant!!!

Indeed, I almost mentioned how as a kid he was a fixture at Asheville on Friday nights and Hickory on Saturday. Along with the guys you mentioned, local late model legends where I lived were Ironman Jack Ingram, Tommy Houston, Butch Lindley, and Robert Pressley. Was a huge fan of the Ironman

His daughter Donna was a classmate of mine in high school. I don't remember much about her other than she was rather short with huge tracts of land.

[jr29]

That's great, WWCD . The Ironman was no to be fucked with. He had quite a reputation.
I'm semi-obsessed and have been for a long time with short track racing fom the late 1960's through the mid 1990's. Jeff gordon and Jimmie Johnson are amazing but they just don't interest me the way Jack Ingram, Dick Trickle, or Bob Senneker do. I just read a book about Gary Balough, who was from Miami and won races all over the east coast and southeast in all kinds of division, but got caught up in south Florida drug trafficking in the 1980's and ended up going to prison just as his NASCAR career was getting off the ground.

[chuckrh]

Indeed, I almost mentioned how as a kid he was a fixture at Asheville on Friday nights and Hickory on Saturday. Along with the guys you mentioned, local late model legends where I lived were Ironman Jack Ingram, Tommy Houston, Butch Lindley, and Robert Pressley. Was a huge fan of the Ironman[/quote]

His daughter Donna was a classmate of mine in high school. I don't remember much about her other than she was rather short with huge tracts of land.[/quote]

you need large tracts of land to park winnebagos....

[chuckrh]

AMC theaters in the US is going to show "Smokey & the Bandit" on over 200 screens for 9 days. Ticket prices will be under $5.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

went to a Tommy Stinson house concert last night, they asked us to write names on tags, as there were a lot of peeps there who didn't know one another

This just seemed to be the right thing to do....

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

As I understand it, Burt was gonna play George Spahn, of Spahn Ranch fame, in that upcoming Tarantino that involves the Tate-LaBianca murders