lets have fun...who is the best Jr. stocker of all time?

[bill dedman]

Wagom Killer,

I have no idea whether any film footage of that race exists, but a good person to ask would be George, himself, or perhaps Ed Miller, who won Super Stock, I think. That was the race in which the Hurst Corporation put up a bunch of EXTRA money (like $10,000.00???) for the win in Super Stock, to encourage participation in that Eliminator.)

It was a well-attended race, so likely, somebody's got it on film... I just don't know who.

Sorry I can't be of more help...
Bill

[Evan Smith]

Paul,

I did not make the last post under my name. The real Evan Smith

Evan

[WagonKiller]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Wagom Killer,

I have no idea whether any film footage of that race exists, but a good person to ask would be George, himself, or perhaps Ed Miller, who won Super Stock, I think. That was the race in which the Hurst Corporation put up a bunch of EXTRA money (like $10,000.00???) for the win in Super Stock, to encourage participation in that Eliminator.)

It was a well-attended race, so likely, somebody's got it on film... I just don't know who.

Sorry I can't be of more help...
Bill

any little bit of info works for me thank you.

Somebody gotta have it! I think i was lookin into it and maybe was done by wide world of you know who sports .i doubt since buy out they have anything they could actually find.

I just think it'd be cool to see the car race. Anyone?

[bill dedman]

Insofar as "seeing" that Final round between Cureton's sedan delivery (hydramatic-equipped) and the ex-Jere Stahl KILLER wagon of Wally Nissen (3-speed manual) the interesting thing was this:

"little" George knew it was sprinkling rain already, and knew he'd need every microsecond he could muster, so he staged at about a 15-degree angle... not enough to get caught, but crooked enough to increase his rollout SIGNIFICANTLY.... LOL! Sedan deliveries with hydros had terrible traction problems.

I was sitting in the top row of the stands, looking down at this and as I became aware of the rather severe angle George had staged at, I said to myself, ("That sly devil!!!!") LOL!

I couldn't believe that the starter let him pull that off, but it was about to rain BIG TIME, and they wanted to finish the race with no delays.

What an exciting end to a REALLY great race!!!

"little" George got 'er done in grand fashion that day! I won't forget that one... OH... the angle-staging didn't matter; the other guy redlit.

[Dwight Southerland]

Bill -

Jack Mullins used to do that angle staging in his '52 Oldsmobile all the time. He also ran 8.45x15 tires on the front that were 30" tall. Talk about a running start!! By the time the lights came on he was already doing 5 mph. (exaggeration) (fdl)

[thomas sheehan]

I hope I don't offend any of the people that took these pics..... I just saved them from websites and wanted to share with the group. Here goes.........

[thomas sheehan]

a few more..... (here you go jeremy)

[thomas sheehan]

even more.......

[thomas sheehan]

from the george cureton library..... (thanks George)

[vic guilmino]

does anybody rememder when george had a 58 pontiac