DW's Boogity Boogity Boogity -- Use It or Lose It?

[6 Shooter]

HEY - DW can't be all bad, he use to drive the...

... 1985 Bud Racecar!​

L8TR - D

 

[jrose7004]

Don't forget you're talking about "Jaws"!

 

[rascal_rascal_99]

Don't forget you're talking about "Jaws"!

Wasn't it Humpy Wheeler that hung a shark from a crane at a race track because of that name?

 

[6 Shooter]

OK - I'm from MO, ...

Wasn't it Humpy Wheeler that hung a shark from a crane at a race track because of that name?

...so Show Me a picture of that! ​

L8TR - D

 

[rascal_rascal_99]

After becoming the president of Charlotte (now Lowe's) Motor Speedway, Wheeler earned the reputation for organizing publicity stunts. A few weeks after driver Cale Yarborough gave the less-than-complimentary nickname 'Jaws' to rival driver Darrell Waltrip, Wheeler bought a giant dead shark, placed a dead chicken in the shark's mouth, and had it driven around the track on a flatbed truck before a race at Charlotte (Yarborough's sponsor at the time was Holly Farms Poultry).​

I may have remembered the story a little wrong, I was thinking it was hung from a crane in the infield and somehow had forgotten about the chicken...still digging for pictures, but surely there's some out there somewhere!

 

[6 Shooter]

"...but surely there's some out there somewhere!"

YEP - I'm sure you'll dig em up!

L8TR - D

 

[rascal_rascal_99]

Well no luck so far on finding any pictures...the more I think about it, I'm sure there was told another story of a shark being hung from a crane, that could have been an inflatable one instead of a real one though.

 

[jrose7004]

I do like the female country artist that sings "Let's Go Racin Boys"!

 

[jrose7004]

Well at least DW didn't yell "Boogity Boogity Boogity let's go qualifyin boy" every time a car hit the track to qualify yesterday!

 

[vett boy]

I found it sicking to listen to at the begining of the shootout.It's become more than corney.