Old Memories

[x22Tazz]

Just wondering for those that have followed clr, If clr was to have something like and iroc race with matched cars of previous and past clr drivers who would you like to see in a 10 car field.

this brought back memories for me and i would love to hear some names that i have probably forgotten.
mine would be:
Britches Liles, Cy Nelms, Roger Mathews, Irvin Rigsbee, Mark Howell, Junior Pearce, James Batten, Ricky Sullivan, Shelton McNair, Jerry Massingill

That was harder than i thought but i believe it would be one heck of a show.

[shotgun]

yeah ur old Donnie! lol j/k

[w1ck3d0n3l0st]

Ricky Sullivan man he hasn't raced in a while that oragne car

[shotgun]

hey Donnie I talked to irvan Rigsby the other day my boss is friends with him he said he is too old to race anymore

[374lif]

I aint old enough to remember but from what my dad and others have told me that Irvin was the man.

[Red Dust]

Ervin was the man. by far my favorite driver in history. i once saw him win at the old Champion Raceway Park with 2 broken tire rods. he steered the car with the brakes and passed kent wright for the win.

i would like to see the old crew

Louis White #7
Ervin Rigsbee #R5
Jerry Mckeel #3
Earl Arnold #1
Joe Huss #33
Shelton McNair #M3
Roger Mathews #49
Roger Lucas #79
Eddie Massengil #10
Rodney Brickhouse #02

who remebers those days?? where you at donnie. i know you remember that crew

[Red Dust]

Just wondering for those that have followed clr, If clr was to have something like and iroc race with matched cars of previous and past clr drivers who would you like to see in a 10 car field.

this brought back memories for me and i would love to hear some names that i have probably forgotten.
mine would be:
Britches Liles, Cy Nelms, Roger Mathews, Irvin Rigsbee, Mark Howell, Junior Pearce, James Batten, Ricky Sullivan, Shelton McNair, Jerry Massingill

That was harder than i thought but i believe it would be one heck of a show.

harder than you thought?? you must be gettin old donnie. LOL i can go all day. we went to Natural Bridge Speedway a few weeks back. 4 and a half hours. the whole drive up there all we talked about were drivers from the past at CLR. come talk to me and RedClay. we will refresh your memory

[Redclay Rebel]

RIP Roger Matthews. I always enjoied watching him race. I think if CLR had a Hall of Fame Roger would be one of the first in.

If I could pick some drivers for a race at CLR most of the names ya'll mentioned would be in it. How about Steve Mendenhall. He raced at CLR many times back in the day. More recently you would have to add Jeffery Tyndall

[x22Tazz]

I am now remembering all those names but also thinking about the support classes...how about

Jerry mckeel jr.
glen stocks
steve fulchum ( i Think that was his name )
john boy
john john floors
milton cooke
kent wright
scott autry
booper bare
tracey stallings


and just for memories ....bearman

[374lif]

haha yea that would be nice

[wesleycogdell]

bearman was the most devoted. always there in that black #57. RIP bearman.

oh the names that have been through county line. tommy cherry, tracy stallings, britches and tater, cy nelms, donnie odom(yeah you old man), roger matthews, james batten, tom knightlinger, shelton mcnair, eddie massengill, eddie radford, mike dennis, dennis capps, jerry mckeel, lennie bunn, i could go on and on. these drivers were and still are the best of the best. oh yeah a few more. irvan rigsbee, earl arnold, roger lucas, spencer liggon, john batten, jimmy hendricks, ken corbitt, johnnie jobe, and i gotta quit because i got to go back to work.

[Red Dust]

what about old shorty horne, al boykiin, don carter, David joyner RIP, david perry, moon mullins, james ellington, junior emory, ted midgett, jim kelly, the old L1 of tater, those were the good ole days

[wesleycogdell]

forgot jim bushee, porky and hank edwards, fuzz watson, and the #7 car that came from williamsburg, va. nute and boot, and one that i cant believe has been forgotten CHARLIE STEPHENSON, danny hudson, jimmy pearce, kelly moore, steve pearson, norwood mcphail, adam murray, eddie woodruff, neal sykes(14 wins in one season i believe), charles ray perry, john fulghum, mike ridgeway, the #13 jiffy lube car. ill think of some more later.

[x22Tazz]

Yep some of those ar bringing back some old memories. a couple of more names i haven't seen mentioned......Mr Joe Huss, Shawn Beasley, bobby whitley, Jimmy Holcolmb, bennie renfrow, Donnie whitman, Macky whitman.........i hope i spelled all the names right........seems to me there has been some star power there that some of the present fans didn't know about.

[Red Dust]

i mentioned joe huss. we were talking about bennie renfrow a few days ago. what about david heffinger, john lee, larry curry, jeff ginn. man if i could just go back in time

[x22Tazz]

bearman was the most devoted. always there in that black #57. RIP bearman.

oh the names that have been through county line. tommy cherry, tracy stallings, britches and tater, cy nelms, donnie odom(yeah you old man), roger matthews, james batten, tom knightlinger, shelton mcnair, eddie massengill, eddie radford, mike dennis, dennis capps, jerry mckeel, lennie bunn, i could go on and on. these drivers were and still are the best of the best. oh yeah a few more. irvan rigsbee, earl arnold, roger lucas, spencer liggon, john batten, jimmy hendricks, ken corbitt, johnnie jobe, and i gotta quit because i got to go back to work.


I can't compete with most of the names being mentioned here but i am proud to say i have turned quiet a few laps around there myself and even won a track championship there although that was a long time ago. I think i beat moses by two points and that was before dirt was invented and we had to race on rock........lol:nasty:

[cntrygrl_002]

i'd love to see that many people at clr again.

[Red Dust]

they need to make the track back to what it used to be. i cant remember if they made it longer or wider but it kind went downhill after that. plus SNS opened up and alot of them went asphalt racing with dreams of goin nascar. should have stayed dirt and had some fun because all those dudes are still running local asphalt tracks with no plans of makin it big:sfan:

[MckeelJr00]

yea that was along time ago i can remember being 14 and 15 years old telling daddy what he was doing wrong ever lap from the trailer until i started then it was a whole different thing.

[Red Dust]

yea i can tell drivers all day long what they are doin wrong from the stands. different story behind the wheel in a pack of cars

[x22Tazz]

life runs in a circle now it is his turn to tell you what you are doing wrong and how he used to do it when he was in that situation. And i agree Red Dust. i guarantee those drivers would be having a lot more fun returning to their roots. look at a lot of the big time drivers now, they are returning. Just wish the local boys could see it.

[Red Dust]

i can slap it back into them if you would like for me to:smoke:

[MckeelJr00]

yea now i still try to tell him what he/s doing wrong and he still don/t listen but he/s real good at telling me.

[Red Dust]

yea now i still try to tell him what he/s doing wrong and he still don/t listen but he/s real good at telling me.

of course. thats what dads are good for. they never screw up right

[MckeelJr00]

yea he still trys to tell me what to do and not to do on the track but i don/t always listen

[D8Dustin]

yea i can tell drivers all day long what they are doin wrong from the stands. different story behind the wheel in a pack of cars


yea its a whole lot different in the car in the middle of the pack, i got cy jr's daddy (earl) LMAO that tells me everything im doing wrong when i get in and i think it is about the oppisite lol:exactly:

[SETUPMAN21PSV8]

linwood mozingo,mark howell,john batten,irvan rigsbee britches.tater,john whitley,shelton mcnair,eddie massengill,dennis capps,:Wicked: :Wicked: :Wicked:

[dirtracer76]

hey does jim oneal and scooter king count from the good ole days

[Busheebakn07]

Jim bushee 22 out of 24 races in 89 and raced the same car on pavement
on friday night at wake county and won 8 races there

[JRhodes]

I, for one, do believe it would be nice for CLR to have a "Yesterday's Heros" night like they used to and like FMS does now. Maybe some of the drivers could have a match race or something.

[crewmembers461]

see with james batten ,cy nelm possibly comming back next year u have tater and britches gonna run late models so u would have the best of whats left there that is still able and willing to drive a late model on dirt

[wesleycogdell]

i do believe that all of us have failed to mention pat ferrell

but how bout jesse bogue, greg worley, tom ballance, matthew barnes, mike lancaster, mike wall, and archie bryant.

[Red Dust]

yea i saw jesse bogue last night. i cant believe i didnt mention the #54 IGA car:DontKnow:

[benjames67]

Irvans the man and Charlie was a cry baby. I saw the race at Brinkleyville when Irvan won with the left front tie rod broken, I don't remember who was in second but he would hit Irvan going in to the corner those last few laps and that is how Irvan won the race. I think I remember Bobby Bottoms win with a broken tie rod at clr also.

[374lif]

yea Bobby won last year i think but yea was liftin up and the tire rod didnt affect the car to much.

[Fordboys]

What makes you think Charlie is a crybaby. I have worked his cars for years and probably one of the fairest and cleanest drivers there is out there. But after 30 years of racing he was ready to keep his racing a little closer to the house. Not everyone that goes to asphalt is looking at trying to move up the ladder. I liked both each one has its own fun in it just at the time he quit running dirt the dirt car was costing alot more to run than asphalt, and the fun had turned into alot like work. Race for fun and when you stop having fun find another sport, I have been in it and around it for about 25 years and its just as much fun to me now as it ever was.

[cprince07]

I can't compete with most of the names being mentioned here but i am proud to say i have turned quiet a few laps around there myself and even won a track championship there although that was a long time ago. I think i beat moses by two points and that was before dirt was invented and we had to race on rock........lol:nasty:

Yeah,I seem to remember who you beat in the points that year!!! That was a rough year for us,but you deserved to be champion(you see,i remember waaaay back when you ran up front and won races every week at CLR!!LOL) I think you had a teammate back then,maybe a #44,Red & White?? HA HA HA!!

How about Greg Williams back in the Mod 4 days.I'm talking about way back when he was running the pinto then the class changed to the tube Mod 4. 6 championships in a row and at least 10 wins a year. Watching Ronnie Johnson back then was always something.

[wesleycogdell]

that was rough chris

[x22Tazz]

Yeah,I seem to remember who you beat in the points that year!!! That was a rough year for us,but you deserved to be champion(you see,i remember waaaay back when you ran up front and won races every week at CLR!!LOL) I think you had a teammate back then,maybe a #44,Red & White?? HA HA HA!!

How about Greg Williams back in the Mod 4 days.I'm talking about way back when he was running the pinto then the class changed to the tube Mod 4. 6 championships in a row and at least 10 wins a year. Watching Ronnie Johnson back then was always something.

yea with team mates like that how in the world did ya'll ever come into the picture.....lol
I have a couple of videos from those days with me and that #44 prince guy exchanging gifts or that is what it looks like in the video. I know it couldn't have been a misunderstanding with your people or anything like that because things like that didn't happen back then. and if i won races that had to have been a long time ago!:10Cry:

[cprince07]

What did i tell you not long ago?? U DA MAN!!!

[silverbullet]

hey Donnie I talked to irvan Rigsby the other day my boss is friends with him he said he is too old to race anymore



If he still got his car. He does have a son

[JRhodes]

Erivn said Everett won't drive the car because he's too damn lazy to work on it. Seriously, that's Ervin's exact words.

[shotgun]

i dont even know if he still has the car do yall know?

[D8Dustin]

yea the last thing i heard was that it was in his junkyard on the tralior just like it come home from clr the last night he raced

[Red Dust]

naw i talked to ervin not to long ago. the only car he had left was his asphalt car and it was sold later that month. old man rigsbee will never race again. that sucks because he is dirt racing icon. everette is too lazy live JRodes said. he would have been awesome too. i saw him race a few times as a kid at wake county and he drove the wheels off that car until he got in trouble at school. then ervin took the car from him and that was all she wrote. the end of the rigsbee legacy

[D8Dustin]

yea thats the last thing i hear and that was probley almost 2 years ago

[shotgun]

dag yall that sucks

[wesleycogdell]

i remember everette running at clr one time and didnt do to hott. ran a red car with a yellow R5 on the side i believe. think he ran in the limited sportsman class. how about brad ford and robert kerr? or mike mckay, mike dennis, james cascell, william carroll, ricky webb, lee brinson and his pinto, curtis keith, jim o'neal, jeff pinno, john fulghum when he drove a car with #01 on the side, donna upchurch, glenn upchurch, and wasnt there a guy named clint oakley?. what about rodney bailey with the smurf on the car, derrick francis when he ran modified 4 cyl, gary theide, brad theide. i think we have just about named all of them.

[cntrygrl_002]

I was too little to remember any of that but I've heard lots.

[cntrygrl_002]

oh and me and john fulghum's daughter are really close friends and from what i've been told he's suppose to be racing again next year as well as his daughter.

[crewmembers461]

i remember when roger matthew raced at clr and some of them other drivers that ya'll named

[shotgun]

man some of them drivers should come back and all race each other again

[D8Dustin]

yep sure would love to watch some of them again

[elwood blues]

here is a link to some photo albums i have online, some are from County Line Raceway. Most folks just copy & paste the link into their address bar. i hope to soon be adding many more pic's, during the winter break. hope you enjoy!
http://community.webshots.com/user/elwood1964

[Fordboys]

I would love to come back and race at CLR again but as for now my son gets my time money and full attention on his racing. He just finished up his 3rd season of racing and at 6 years old he has done a whole lot better than I ever have. Came down there and rode a kart one night but it just didn't feel right, I would have loved to have been in a late model that night as nice as the track was.

[crewmembers461]

can anybody tell me what yr mark batten was racing and what year he stopped i know he stopped because his car caught on fire that was what iwas told or he was ion a bad wreck on the track or something like that anybody that can tell me i would greatly appreciate it




does anybody remember jimmy fisher when he raced with mike joyner

[w1ck3d0n3l0st]

what about the time someone car burnt down to the ground i unno if that was mark or not

[shotgun]

idk i wish i did crew did he race asphalt or dirt?

[374lif]

he raced dirt then he started buildin cars. BATTENBUILT.

[shotgun]

oh i see did he race at CLR?

[WhitleyRacing08]

How about the Webb boys, Ricky and Wyatt Webb. Be somethin if they were still racing

[shotgun]

sure would be now

[Redclay Rebel]

Has anybody mentioned David Heffinger, Jerry Massengill, Jimmy Green or John Lee. Remmeber the #45 Lee Motor Company car driven by Mike McGoveren(i think was his name)

[JAMES@CLR]

It was Mike McGovern , Last I heard he was a driving instructor at the Bob Bondurant driving school.

[shotgun]

dag James u remember everyone thats been to CLR dont ya. lol