Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
Only thin worse he could have done would have been to loose it and run into a porta-potty.
Bob I saw this happen in Terre Haute Indiana at the action track in its hay day with
Bettenhausen's Foyt, Sachs, Hurtubise, McClusky, Unser, Parsons Walkup.

Don Smith was running the track and he was a showman he rigged up an out house at the edge of the infield dug a hole underneath it put in a trap door and had a man go in the out house and went under ground and Jim McElreath appeared to lose control of his sprint car during a qualifying run and hit the out house and just flattened it every one thought the guy was killed and all of a sudden the trap door opened he stepped out and waved at the crowd and of course since it was all staged they gave McElreath another qualifying run. Those were fun days at the track most of the drivers were sleeping in there station wagons going from track to track helping each other out and were not racing because of the money they were racing because it was in their blood and they were all mechanics worked on the car hauled the car. I think it was better racing then than it is now.