1954 nascar

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While Waiting In The Doctores Office, I Picked Up An Issue Of Sports Illus., Feb. 07. There Was A Little Articule On Nascar, It Said That A 54 Chrysler. Won 7 Races In 54, It Also Mentioned Tim Flock Racing In An Early Year With His Monkey. It Said That A Stone Flew The Windshield And Hit The Monkey And That He Had To Make An Extra Pit Stop Because Of The Monkey Getting Hit. But It Never Mentioned Hudson With It Early Victory's, Just The Driver And Passenger.

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While Waiting In The Doctores Office, I Picked Up An Issue Of Sports Illus., Feb. 07. There Was A Little Articule On Nascar, It Said That A 54 Chrysler. Won 7 Races In 54, It Also Mentioned Tim Flock Racing In An Early Year With His Monkey. It Said That A Stone Flew The Windshield And Hit The Monkey And That He Had To Make An Extra Pit Stop Because Of The Monkey Getting Hit. But It Never Mentioned Hudson With It Early Victory's, Just The Driver And Passenger.

Yeah, Tim Flock, along with his brothers, did some crazy things. Fonty, for example, used to race in Bermuda shorts and sneakers.

Tim raced eight races with his pet monkey, Jocko Flocko. Jocko the monkey actually got loose during one race and Tim had to make a pit stop because the monkey had him around the neck. Story is the monkey spotted the right front tire going around, thru the slot they used to cut in the floor so they could check tire wear, and went beserk.

Cost Tim a good finish so that was the end of Jocko.

Bet you couldn't get away with that today. Ah, the fun days of NASCAR (remember what the legendary Smoky Yunick used to say - "If it ain't in the rule book, it's gotta be legal!!!" By the next week it probably was in the rule book!!! LOL)

That article, by the way, didn't go far enough - Hudson had something like 80 wins between 1951 and 1955 (beleive it was 17 wins in 1954).



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr