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10-27-04
I was on my way home last
night from Winston-Salem after spending the past week and a
half with Dad in the hospital. First of all, thanks to Dave
Menefee for keeping everyone updated on Dad’s situation and to
everyone for their thoughts. Dad’s doing well, if all stays
on schedule he will be home in about a week.
For those of you who don’t
know, Dad (Sherrill Pardue) drove race cars from the mid 70’s
until the early 90’s in both Street Stocks and later Late
Models, finishing 2nd in ’79 and 3rd in
’80 in the Street Stock points standings (today’s Grand
Stocks) at Old Dominion.
No matter what goes on in
my life there always seems to be a stock car racing theme.
The irony was not lost on me when I looked in this month’s
stock car racing magazine and the editor’s column was all
about the death 40 years ago of Dad’s brother, Jimmy Pardue.
Jimmy was a rising NASCAR star who had two Grand National
(today’s Nextel Cup) wins and was in the top five in points
when an accident at Charlotte took his life.
On my way down the road
last week, I stopped for a pit stop along I-85 in North
Carolina and I bumped into Dickie Gore’s son-in-law, “You must
be headed to the hospital to see your Dad.” he quipped. News
travels fast in the racing world.
On Sunday we sat in the
hospital room and watched the reports of the plane wreck near
Martinsville and remembered how lucky we were.
On Monday, my brother
Bruce and I drove over to the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium to
take a look at the famous short-track.
While we sat at the
hospital on Tuesday, my wife ran back to my parent’s house to
get us some clean clothes. As she was loading the cars she
could hear the rumble of the Roush Racing trucks as they
turned the first hot-laps at North Wilkesboro Speedway in
nearly a decade.
Life is a weird trip
sometimes but, always interesting.
If you’d like to send Dad
your get well wishes, you can send them to me at
[email protected] or post them on one of the
racing message boards and I will get them to him.
Happy racing to all and
we’ll see you at the banquet.
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