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• Only Yesterday: The 40th Anniversary of NASCAR’s Greatest Con Artist
L.W. Wright recently resurfaced on a podcast interview with The Scene Vault, 40 years after the 1982 race at Talladega....2022
• Waid’s World: Victory at Martinsville Was Special for Buddy Baker
The next episode of The Scene Vault Podcast features a roundtable discussion with three long-time crewmen for, and friends of, NASCAR Hall of Famer and former team owner Bud Moore — an American war hero who passed away in 2017. As usual, it was a very informative, lively and often hilarious discussion. As we’ve discovered on ... Read more...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Buddy Parrott Helps Richard Petty To His 200th Win
By Rick Houston Yes, Richard Petty won the 200th race of his NASCAR career in the 1984 Firecracker 400 at Daytona. That much, you more than likely knew. But … there’s a backstory to the weekend that make the victory all the more incredible. Buddy Parrott, Petty’s crew chief at the time, had to fend […]...2021
• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond and the 1979 Daytona 500
By Rick Houston You only THOUGHT you knew the story of the 1979 Daytona 500 inside and out. Yet there was Jeff Hammond in Cale Yarborough’s pits, watching as his driver settled himself into perfect position coming to the white flag and then listening to the track announcer as all Hell broke loose on the […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond's First Impressions of DW
By Rick Houston Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip were as different as different could be, inside a race car and out. Waltrip could talk, and he didn’t particularly mind whose feathers he ruffled. It was Yarborough who dubbed Waltrip “Jaws” for his loquacious ways. They had their fair share of run-ins on the track and […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond Deals With Pressure
By Rick Houston Working for drivers like Walter Ballard came with its own unique set of challenges. How long could Ballard go before something broke on his car? Would there be enough money to make it to the next race? Could Ballard’s equipment maybe … possibly … hopefully … last long enough for the team […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons, Morgan-McClure Motorsports And The Rumor
By Rick Houston Three races. That’s all Phil Parsons got at the start of the 1990 Winston Cup season to show Morgan-McClure Motorsports what he could do. And when those races didn’t go well … at all … Parsons was released, then and there, just like that. Parsons had cataract surgery on his left eye […]...2021
• The Scene Vault: Will Cronkrite, Joe Frasson and a Talladega Tangle
By Rick Houston Will Cronkrite was just a few years into his NASCAR career when he served as crew chief for Joe Frasson during the 1973 Winston 500 at Talladega. Their race didn’t last long. Frasson was swept into an early multicar crash that left his car destroyed, and his arm mangled. Fueled by shock […]...2020
• The Scene Vault: Paul Andrews, Alan Kulwicki and 4/1/93
By Rick Houston Alan Kulwicki and three others died in a tragic plane crash on April 1, 1993. And if Paul Andrews hadn’t stayed at the shop to help oversee pit practice, he might very well have been on the plane as well. No loss ever impacted Andrews more. He’d been with Kulwicki almost from […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Paul Andrews and the 1992 Winston Cup Championship
By Rick Houston When Alan Kulwicki crashed out of the fall Dover race late in the 1992 Winston Cup season, his hopes for winning a championship that season were dashed. The mishap dropped him from third to fourth in the standings, 278 points behind then-leader Bill Elliott. With just six races remaining on the schedule, […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Bill Elliott on his F-16 Crash
By Rick Houston Bill Elliott had experienced just about everything a race-car driver could experience, and more crashes than he could ever have cared about remembering. But this was different. This happened before his mind could even register it. It was supposed to be a routine demonstration flight in a Georgia Air National Guard F-16, […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Steve Hmiel on Roush Racing's 1990 Richmond penalty
By Steve Waid After earning their first NASCAR Winston Cup victory at Rockingham in the fall of 1989, Mark Martin and the Roush Racing team were very confident going into 1990. Sure enough, Mark earned his second career victory in only the second race of the season at Richmond. But wait a moment …. After […]...2020
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"Wright recently resurfaced on a podcast interview with The Scene Vault, 40 years after the 1982 race at Talladega."

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"The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons Best David Pearson At Bristol"

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"The Scene Vault: Bobby Allison, DiGard Racing Win Title Despite Sabotage Attempt"

• The Scene Vault: Will Cronkrite & Dale Earnhardt
By Rick Houston Dale Earnhardt ran — officially — four races for car owner Will Cronkrite in 1978, with a best finish of seventh in that summer’s Firecracker 400 at Daytona. Earnhardt’s other three starts for Cronkrite turned up so-so results, top 20s all, but nothing exactly spectacular. Yet they were the most important races […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Paul Andrews and the 1992 Winston Cup Championship
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons' 1994 Busch Series Win
By Rick Houston Phil Parsons really had no other choice. Plagued by rumors about his eyesight, Parsons’ options in NASCAR’s elite Winston Cup division were, at the very best, limited. So he and wife Marcia made the decision to go racing in the Busch Series, with their own team and own cars. That call paid […]...2021
• The Scene Vault: Will Cronkrite and Greg Heller
By Rick Houston Shortly before Christmas in 1969, Will Cronkrite experienced the kind of loss no person should ever experience. His wife, Sandy, their daughter Kelly and an unborn child all died in an automobile accident in Lebanon, Ohio. Shortly thereafter, Cronkrite headed to North Carolina, where he went to work for car owner L.G. […]...2020
• The Scene Vault: Cliff Champion and the 1980 Daytona 500
By Rick Houston Cliff Champion’s dad wasn’t sold on the idea of his son’s racing career. After all, racers never fared too well on or off the track. They were a rough-and-tumble bunch, always in trouble, rowdy and more often than not, broke. So when Cliff started down that career path, the elder Champion figured […]...2020
• The Scene Vault: Tommy Houston's Last Win
By Rick Houston Surely, people would’ve understood if Tommy Houston had chosen to skip the April 1992 Busch Series event at Hickory Motor Speedway. Houston’s father, Oren Clyde Houston, died a couple of days before the event. The veteran Busch Series driver very seriously considered not racing that weekend, but family convinced him to run […]...2020
• The Scene Vault: Tommy Houston and the 1989 Busch Series Championship
By Rick Houston From the outside looking in, Tommy Houston and Rob Moroso seemed as different as it was possible to be. Houston was the grizzled veteran who began racing before Moroso was born. Moroso, on the other hand, was the rich kid whose family had long been in the racing business. Houston was the […]...2020
• The Scene Vault: Tommy Houston, Dale Earnhardt and Racing “Family”
By Rick Houston Dale Earnhardt might’ve been married to Tommy Houston’s niece, but that didn’t mean that they took it easy on each other out on the race track. Oh, no. Not by a longshot. In this clip from The Scene Vault Podcast interview with Houston, he remembers a long-ago race at Indianapolis Raceway Park […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Derrike Cope and the 1990 Daytona 500
By Rick Houston The last lap of the 1990 Daytona 500 featured one of the most iconic moments in NASCAR. Whether fans loved him or hated him … there was NO in between … Dale Earnhardt was about to taste victory for the first time in the sport’s biggest race. He’d won everything else up […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: Steve Hmiel on Roush Racing's 1990 Richmond penalty
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• The Scene Vault: Bobby Allison, DiGard Racing Win Title Despite Sabotage Attempt
By Rick Houston Bobby Allison managed to finish well enough in the 1983 season finale at Riverside to capture the first Winston Cup championship of his career. Later, however, sugar residue was discovered in the fuel cell of his DiGard Racing Buick. Someone, for some reason, had attempted to sabotage the team’s march to the […]...2020
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• The Scene Vault: DiGard Racing In The Beginning
By Rick Houston It all began with a pinochle game. Businessman Mike DiProspero planned to enter a car in the upcoming Daytona 500, and asked brother-in-law Bill Gardner over a game of cards if he‘d be interested in joining him in the venture. It was from that small gesture that DiGard Racing, one of the […]...2020
• Only Yesterday: The 40th Anniversary of NASCAR’s Greatest Con Artist
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• Waid’s World: Victory at Martinsville Was Special for Buddy Baker
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• The Scene Vault: Buddy Parrott Helps Richard Petty To His 200th Win
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond and the 1979 Daytona 500
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond's First Impressions of DW
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond Deals With Pressure
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond Gets His Start With Junior Johnson & Associates
By Rick Houston Jeff Hammond showed up late, but Herb Nab put him to work any way. Thinking this was going to be a formal interview with Junior Johnson & Associates, Hammond had made his way from his home in Charlotte to the Johnson team’s shop in Ingle Hollow, in rural North Carolina. He’d gotten […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond's Early Days In Racing
By Rick Houston Jeff Hammond has loved racing for a long, long time. As soon as he possibly could, Hammond began searching out teams to help on race weekends. If one team had all the workers it needed, he’d go to the next … and the next. He built up quite a resume assisting teams […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons' 1994 Busch Series Win
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons, Morgan-McClure Motorsports And The Rumor
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons Wins At Talladega
By Rick Houston Phil Parsons began his Winston Cup career with a terrifying tumble at Talladega. Five years later, he reached the mountaintop at the very same race track. Despite that early accident at the sport’s biggest and fastest race track, Parsons seemed to do his best work at Talladega and Daytona. He looked forward […]...2021
• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons' Wicked Talladega Wreck
By Rick Houston It was just the second Winston Cup race of Phil Parsons’ career, and it ended spectacularly. And not the good kind of spectacular, either. Going into turn one on lap 72, Parsons got together with Darrell Waltrip. The contact triggered a huge multicar melee in which Parsons suddenly found himself flipping violently […]...2021
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• Only Yesterday: The 40th Anniversary of NASCAR’s Greatest Con Artist
2022
• The Scene Vault: Buddy Parrott Helps Richard Petty To His 200th Win
2021
• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond's First Impressions of DW
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond Deals With Pressure
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• The Scene Vault: Jeff Hammond's Early Days In Racing
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons, Morgan-McClure Motorsports And The Rumor
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons Wins At Talladega
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons' Wicked Talladega Wreck
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• The Scene Vault: Phil Parsons Best David Pearson At Bristol
By Rick Houston Phil Parsons grew up in NASCAR, the younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons. Benny was his hero, and so were competitors like David Pearson. So when Phil passed David with 11 laps remaining in the 1982 Late Model Sportsman race at Bristol, besting one of NASCAR‘s all-time greats all […]...2021
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• The Scene Vault: Will Cronkrite & Dale Earnhardt
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