On Fri, 04 May 2007 19:19:30 -0500, Maynard G. Krebbs
wrote:

On Fri, 04 May 2007 11:51:47 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Fri, 04 May 2007 11:47:06 GMT, "longshot" wrote:

worse, who would name a kid DICK?

Anybody remember Dick Trickle?

Seriously - oddest name ever.

Hell yeah! Pretty good stock car driver. Always carried a pack of
smokes and a lighter in his race car so he could smoke during
cautions. )

Trickle entered 400 something races and never even sniffed a win.

I remember he did a NAPA commercial once that was the funniest
commercial I've ever seen - all about losing.

It was hysterical and he delivered it dead pan without the slightest
sign of a smile.

The interesting thing about him (and Dave Marcus curiously enough) was
that a lot of teams used him to test their cars after he retired. I
gather the two of them were really wizards on chassis adjustments.

They just could never get it all together. Last of the old time
racers.