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In Touch, April 5

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Prince's death investigation

Page 1: Contents

Page 2: Who Wore It Best? Jameela Jamil vs. Idina Menzel vs. Melissa Wood-Tepperberg in Alice + Olivia power suits

Page 4: In her documentary Kid 90, Punky Brewster actress Soleil Moon Frye fondly recalls have her first consensual sexual experience with her longtime crush Charlie Sheen in 1994, when she was 18 and he was 29 -- she says he was really kind to her and treated her beautifully and in some of the most pivotal moments in her life, he has checked in and lent his support

Page 5: 56-year-old Lenny Kravitz shows off his abs while carving up a coconut, Number of the Week -- $6.6 billion Kanye West is reportedly now worth, Hot Mom of the Week -- Chrissy Teigen trying for a topless photo shoot and her son Miles got in the way, Challenge of the Week -- Cardi B during a Twitter war with Candace Owens, Makeover of the Week -- Shakira showed off her new pink locks

Page 6: Crib of the Week -- Tom Cruise's Colorado cabin, Winner of the Week -- Drew Barrymore's daytime talk show is picked up for a second season, Loser of the Week -- Jennifer Lopez's show World of Dance is canceled just days after she reportedly split from Alex Rodriguez

Page 8: Up Close -- Billie Eilish ditched her signature green/black locks for platinum blond tresses

Page 10: Get Fit for Summer -- Halle Berry, Kate Hudson shows off her favorite Fabletics outfit in her home gym, Gabrielle Union in a black bikini, Tyler Cameron in Los Cabos, Mexico

Page 12: Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton happily greet an emergency staffer and her dad on the phone as they visit an ambulance station to support those on the COVID-19 frontlines in London, Drew Barrymore launches her new Beautiful kitchen line in NYC, Jared Leto is unrecognizable as fashion designer Paolo Gucci in the upcoming House of Gucci in Milan

Page 14: Caitlyn Jenner is revealed as the Phoenix on The Masked Singer

Page 16: Rob Kardashian tries out his sister Kim Kardashian's bleached blonde locks with an Instagram filter, during her first public outing in months Britney Spears hugs a bunny in L.A., Bradley Cooper takes daughter Lea on a shopping trip in NYC

Page 18: Animal Tactics -- Kelly Clarkson celebrates St. Patrick's Day on her talk show with a lamb in L.A., Farrah Abraham and daughter Sophia with their dog in Palm Beach, John Travolta and son Ben introduce the new addition to their family which is a cat named Crystal

Page 20: Justin Bieber rocks his crocs with socks, Kristin Cavallari in Cabo San Lucas, Beyonce hits the Grammys afterparty at Giorgio Baldi in a custom corseted silver-mesh look by Burberry and with her awards in tow in Santa Monica

Page 24: Jessica Simpson celebrating daughter Birdie's birthday with daughter Maxwell and son Ace and husband Eric Johnson, Paul McCartney hits the beach and even changes clothes under a towel in St. Barts, Bethenny Frankel wearing an engagement ring at the beach in Miami

Page 25: Jack Black doing a Hulk spoof on Instagram, Jennifer Lopez on the set of Shotgun Wedding in Dominican Republic

Page 26: Actually tying the knot is proving difficult for Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, as the couple contend with pandemic issues and last-minute details, including who should be matron of honor -- Gwen is close with Ellen DeGeneres and Angelina Jolie and it's between those two but she hasn't made a decision yet and that's led to a lot of friction between Ellen and Angie because each feels she should be picked and it's turned into a war, which is putting Gwen in a very awkward situation -- the bride-to-be is trying to keep the focus on her and her husband-to-be and the wedding will take place this summer on the beach in Malibu, not too far from the couple's new $13 million Encino mansion and many of the details have already been decided, except the matron of honor issue

Page 27: Things went from bad to worse for Armie Hammer as he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman named Effie Angelova for more than four hours in L.A. in 2017 -- Angelova claims she met Armie on Facebook in 2016 when she was 20 years old and fell in love with him instantly, but he became increasingly violent and abused her mentally, emotionally and sexually -- the LAPD has launched an investigation -- Armie's lawyer vehemently denies Angelova's claims, saying the actor's interactions with her were completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance

* Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak has come under fire for seemingly mocking a contestant's speech impediment on a recent episode -- Chris Brimble introduced himself as a tech salesman, revealing a noticeable lisp and at one point during their banter, instead of replying to Chris with, "I see," Pat said, "I thee" -- now some viewers are calling for the veteran game show host's resignation and there are even rumblings that producers want him to take a step back and Pat appears to have made a bad mistake, and he probably feels terrible about it and whether he will have to take a break or quit, that will be up to him and the show

* Star Sightings -- Whitney Port, Chrissy Teigen

Page 28: Cover Story -- Prince's death: was it murder? Five years after he was found dead at his home, a bombshell family lawsuit claims the music legend didn't have to die

Page 32: Brad Pitt's Worst Nightmare: the kids testify against him -- Angelina Jolie files court documents accusing Brad of domestic abuse and plans to call their children to the stand -- Brad just wants to get on with his life, but Angelina won't let him and she's doing everything she can win custody of their kids so she can freely move them out of L.A.

Page 34: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom secretly married -- Katy gets her dream wedding with Orlando in Hawaii

Page 36: Demi Lovato's bombshell: her drug dealer assaulted her -- the singer reveals the agonizing secret she's kept for nearly three years

Page 38: Welcome to the new Bachelor -- in the wake of controversy, the popular franchise undergoes a massive overhaul

Page 40: The Big Interview -- Dolores Catania on Real Housewives on New Jersey -- it's been really hard on my relationship

Page 44: Beauty -- Hairdo Deja Vu -- stars bring back hairstyle trends from the '90s -- Bella Hadid, Maggie Rogers, Debby Ryan, Hailey Bieber

Page 46: Fashion -- Trend Alert: House Dresses -- these super-comfy, roomy style is basically the dress version of sweatpants -- Zoey Deutch, Mandy Moore

Page 50: Animal Overload

Page 54: Horoscope -- Aries Chris Meloni turned 60 on April 2

Page 56: Last Laughs

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cedarwoodtavern-blog · 5 years ago

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Football Friday Nights

High School Football: Why Football Friday Nights Are So Special to Me!!

FRIDAY NIGHT!!! Thousands of people read these two simple words and think of a thousand different things. The weekend is finally here, movie night, work night, family time, Braves baseball, bowling night, book club, etc. but to thousands and thousands across the country, including myself, these two simple words mean high school football.

Friday Night Lights, Boys of Fall, the smell, the sounds, the PA announcer, National Anthem, community, the band, the drums, joy of victory and tears of defeat. Once you fall in love with high school football and those Friday nights from late August to what everyone hopes is a run into December, that love never leaves you, NEVER!!

I grew up the son of a high school football coach in North Carolina. I’ve never known anything else on Friday nights in the Fall except getting to the stadium as early as possible and soaking up every detail possible before, during and after the game. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world and I can’t imagine Fridays in the Fall any other way.

As a child my idols were high school football coaches and high school football players. Of course, I looked up to and idolized guys like Willie Stargel, Mike Schmidt, Walter Payton, Julius Irving and Larry Bird but man I always cherished the interactions with Coach Parker, Coach Scott, Coach Faucette, Coach Lowman, Coach Shuford, Coach Shelton, Coach Byrne, Coach Whisnant and my dad which when I was at practice or games I looked at him as Coach.

Coach is retired now but coached into his 70s, had a 42 year coaching career, won 365 games (that is a game a day for an entire year), won 2 State Championships, changed countless lives for the better and established a small town in North Carolina, Maiden, as “The Biggest Little Football Town in the World”. Regardless of any of the above, to me he has always been and will always be the greatest coach I’ve ever known or known of. I didn’t play for him unfortunately. I didn’t play football due to being a 140 pound rail that loved the sound of a basketball going through the net, but if I had it all to do over again I would have taken my chances on the football field.

Dad was the single greatest motivator I’ve ever been around and whether he was coaching a stud RB that would end up at Clemson, an OL that walked on at North Carolina, the career rushing leader in North Carolina history or an average kid that had dreamt of playing for the Blue Devils his entire life, they all played smarter and harder than anything I had ever seen. I could have been in the locker room as a kid for pre-game speeches because I was a Brown, and sometimes I would go in just to see and feel the intensity, but most of the time I was with the other kids, on the steps outside the locker room, listening to the pre-game speech through a vent in the wall. We wouldn’t say a word, we would just listen to a speech every Friday night that had the players in tears and us with goosebumps on our arms. It was magical and just as it was ending we would run to the other side of the bleachers to watch the Blue Devils emerge.

It wasn’t just any entrance, it was an entrance that nobody in town was willing to miss. Every business, restaurant, house, apartment, dwelling, barn and farm was locked down and closed, so they could be in the stadium to watch the Blue Devils take the field. Opposing teams’ fans always made sure they were early as well so they could position themselves as high as possible in the visitor bleachers at mid-field because like it or not, they didn’t want to miss the show either. This wasn’t just a team running through a banner and piling onto the field. This was Maiden, and you must visualize the entrance of all entrances. The field house was directly behind the old concrete bleachers on the home side at the 50-yard line. The door from the field house to the field was directly under the concrete bleachers so the players emerged to the sound of 2001 Space Odyssey (look it up youngsters and also look up Ric Flair in his prime while at it) and through a wall of smoke as if they were coming right out of the bleachers. It was magic and just as the players had chills and tears from the pre-game speech, now the entire home side, hell the entire stadium, had chills and many had tears as Friday Night was finally here and the Blue Devils were about to put on a show.

In 2000 this stadium became known as Thomas E Brown stadium so going back to games took on a new meaning and a new since of pride.

As I went back to games in my 20s and 30s with my family and now my own children in tow, I still got those same goosebumps and tears in my eyes when the Blue Devils ran out of the smoke. I looked around every time I went back at Maiden fans that hadn’t missed a game in 20+ years with the same feeling they had the first time they experienced it.

Unfortunately, the community outgrew this special stadium and a new school and stadium was built half a mile down the road in 2006. 2001 Space Odyssey still plays, the smoke still rolls but the players don’t blast through the concrete bleachers at the 50-yard line. They come out of the field house and through a long metal tunnel beside the north end zone. In the fall of 2018 the new Blue Devil Stadium became known as Thomas E Brown stadium just as the old stadium had 18 years before.

Maiden, NC will always be the most special high school football town in the world to me but through our adventures with Cedarwood Tavern and this crazy football show, I’ve been able to gain so much respect and pride for our local schools here in Cherokee County. I’ll be writing a lot more this year about Maiden but also writing about how special the local schools – Cherokee, Woodstock, Sequoyah, Creekview, Etowah and River Ridge are to me as well, and how our show (Cedarwood Tavern Pre and Post-Game) would have never lasted more than 2 weeks if it wasn’t for Coach Shaw of Cherokee and Coach Budde of Woodstock accepting and appreciating what we were trying to do. Thank you very much for believing in our vision.

The last paragraph I reserved for the Coach’s wives (and spouses of coaches in general). It is by far the toughest job in the world and it is definitely a job. We had a sign on our fridge that read, “We interrupt this marriage to bring you football season”. This is a reality for thousands of coaches and families across the country in many different sports. The wives deal with the roller-coaster of ups and downs during a season like all of us but do it knowing their husband will be out the door very early, home very late, busy on weekends, happy after wins, sad after losses and even avoided at the grocery store during less than stellar seasons. God bless my mother who lived this roller-coaster during my Dad’s 42 year career. She ran a family, put dinner on the table every night and sat in the bleachers beside crazy fans that couldn’t understand why coach wasn’t running a fake punt on every 4th and 12. Give a hug to a Coach’s wife this year when you get the chance because if nothing else, they deserve it!!!!

Thank you to all and as always, get out and support a high School team on Friday nights in the Fall!!!!!

Happy 76th today as well to the GOAT, Dad, Coach and sometimes known toward the end of his coaching career (self proclaimed) as the ‘Oldest Rat in the Barn’.

-CWT

#IWWD

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wayneooverton · 8 years ago

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Teaching Your Kids to Dive: PADI Junior Open Water Program

In the first two of our series on kids’ diving courses, we covered Bubblemaker and Seal Team, wherein participants must be at least eight years old. If your child is 10 or older and has shown interest in diving, the Discover Scuba Diving program may help them, and you, decide if they’re ready to pursue diving more seriously. Here, we’ll cover the PADI Junior Open Water Program, available to kids 10 and older.

What sets Junior Open Water apart?

The most important thing to note about this course is that it’s a big jump from the Bubblemaker, Seal Team, and Discover Scuba Diving programs. It is, in fact, the same course that the adults take. It features the same book, same knowledge mastery and skill mastery requirements. It’s vital to really consider your child’s readiness for this course. If they’re ready, look for a program that offers a 2-to-1 or 1-to-1 ratio of student to instructor so that your child can learn at his own pace.

Below are the course requirements and some tips from PADI IDC Staff Instructor Sheila Shelton of Texan Scuba if your child is ready to be an open-water diver.

The PADI Junior Open Water course

As I already mentioned, this is big. The course will require a lot of reading, knowledge and skills mastery. Before the classroom and pool time, the student must read the PADI Open Water course textbook. He or she must complete the knowledge reviews in each chapter. Once they start their classroom training, students will take a variety of quizzes, as well as a final exam that covers all the material in the textbook. Remember, this is the same book that you and I learned from.

The other big requirement to begin the course is that students must demonstrate that they can complete a 10-minute swim/float without any swim aids in water too deep to stand. Then they must complete a 200 meter/yard continuous surface-swim with no gear on or a 300 meter/yard surface swim using mask, fins and snorkel.

Students in the Open Water course must demonstrate much more than the ability to breathe underwater. They will demonstrate a variety of skills on land, including their pre-dive buddy checks, assembly and disassembly of their equipment, putting on and adjusting their equipment, and inflating and deflating their BCDs.

In-water skills training

In the water, students clear and breathe through a snorkel; adjust for proper weighting; orally inflate their BCD; remove their weights; recover and clear a regulator; breathe without a mask and then clear a mask; locate and read their submersible pressure gauge; demonstrate various hand signals; hover mid-water; and perform a controlled ascent and descent.

As the pool sessions continue, students demonstrate some emergency skills, including sharing air with a buddy; a tired-diver tow; simulation of breathing on a free-flowing regulator; a controlled emergency swimming ascent; and cramp removal techniques on themselves and on their buddy.

Once in open water, students demonstrate all these skills again and also must complete a straight-line surface swim with a compass, safety stops, and a straight-line and reciprocal swim underwater.

Different rules for Junior Open Water Divers

As mentioned, this course includes everything that adults must do to get certified. However, once certified, the rules of diving are different depending on the student’s age. Until age 15, all divers are referred to as “junior,” no matter how many certifications or dives they achieve prior to their 15th birthday. Junior Open Water divers age 10-11 can only dive with a parent, guardian, or PADI professional and to a maximum depth of 40 feet (12 m). Junior Open Water Divers age 12-14 years old can dive with a certified adult other than a parent, guardian, or PADI professional, and they may dive to 60 feet (18 m).

If you feel like this may be too much for your child, there is a scaled-back option called the PADI Scuba Diver program. In this subset of the Open Water program, students learn to dive under the direct supervision of PADI Divemaster or higher to maximum of 40 feet (12 m). This course offers more theoretical and better-developed water skills than PADI’s Discover Scuba Diving Program. Upon completion, however, the student is not qualified to dive independently or even with a parent or guardian.

The Scuba Diver Program covers the first three chapters of the five-chapter OW textbook, and includes the first three confined-water dives and first two open-water dives. It also only requires a 10-minute swim/float. There is no formal training on dive tables or computer use. If you are unsure about whether to certify your child, this course may be a good starting point. If your child does well, they can come back later to do the full Open Water program.

Tips to ensure your child’s success

If you and your child have decided to proceed, following a few recommendations can help them succeed and enjoy the course. While PADI stipulates a maximum student-to-instructor ratio of 8-to-1 in the pool and 4-to-1 in open water (2-to-1 for ages 10-11), as mentioned, PADI IDC Staff Instructor Sheila Shelton feels strongly that 2-to-1 or 1-to-1 ideal. This way students can learn at their own pace. It may cost more, but it gives the instructor time to slow the training down.

Shelton also suggests that children take this course in summer so they have more time for textbook reading and comprehension, and suggests that parents schedule classes earlier in the day when children are still fresh. It’s usually easier for dive shops to schedule private lessons during the week. This also makes training in the summer more appealing, when there are fewer people trying to enroll in classes.

Final advice

PADI offers a variety of ways to study the course content, including eLearning, tablet app, hard copy book and DVD. But Shelton thinks today’s kids are most comfortable using PADI’s eLearning option. The Open Water Diver Online course allows students to study at their own pace through an interactive computer-based program.

Shelton also recommends talking with the instructor about your child’s readiness prior to course enrollment. Prepare for the possibility that the instructor may tell you after the first class that your child is not ready. That evaluation may require actual time in class with your child, and it is imperative to respect the instructor’s opinion.

Finally, a word about dive tables. If you certified when I did, tables were a must. We didn’t have anything else. Now, however, computers are a major part of our dive experience. Some dive shops still teach tables, even though it makes the class a bit longer. Shelton and Texan Scuba have decided to include tables in their instruction. As a parent, I would make sure that the dive shop I choose for my child’s training does the same. Understanding tables can save a trip if a computer fails, and also helps kids understand what the numbers mean.

What’s next?

Once a child completes Open Water, they can continue their junior journey, even if they are under 15. Once the child 12 years old, he can take Junior Advanced Open Water. This includes five specified dives, including a deep dive. This certification offers ability to dive to 70 feet (21 m). Kids can even achieve Junior Master Scuba Diver certification, the highest recreational rating in the PADI system. To do so they must complete their Junior Open Water, Junior Advanced Open Water, Junior Rescue, certifications in five PADI specialty courses, and log 50 dives. Age requirements for PADI’s specialty courses vary, so check with your dive shop to determine which specialties your child can pursue.

Stay tuned for more information on Junior Rescue and other courses available to your child on his junior journey.

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NASCAR and Indy 500 Deaths Cast Shadow On 1964 Racing Season

1964.

American auto racing exploded this season, both figuratively and, alas, literally. The year was barely two weeks old when Joe Weatherly hit a wall at Riverside, becoming NASCAR’s first reigning Grand National champion to die in competition. Another stock-car superstar, Fireball Roberts, was critically burned at Charlotte in May, developed blood poisoning and pneumonia, and succumbed in July. Jimmy Pardue was killed testing tires at Darlington. On Memorial Day weekend, with thousands in movie theaters watching the first closed-circuit Indianapolis 500 telecast and the whole nation listening on radio, the worst accident in Indy history claimed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. Top Fuel’s casualties included Southern California crowd favorites Boyd Pennington and John Wenderski.

Simultaneously, all types of motorized competition were enjoying unprecedented attention from folks besides traditional gearheads. Racing was rapidly expanding from a participant-oriented, niche activity into mainstream entertainment for sports fans who’d previously followed stick-and-ball games exclusively. The challenge presented to exotic European marques by American-made Corvettes, Cobras, and Cheetahs made sports car racing so appealing that one road course, Riverside International Raceway, was able to pull big crowds to meets staged just two weeks apart this October.

Petersen Publishing Company’s newest slick monthly Sports Car Graphic flourished with subscribers and advertisers alike. Established sister publications HOT ROD and Car Craft expanded event coverage and race-car tech on pages previously reserved for street-car features, go-karts, model cars, new-car tests, and basic hop-up how-tos. Chrysler’s second-generation Hemi and Ford’s answer engine, the overhead-camshaft 427, each earned comprehensive technical articles that uncovered every component. Detroit’s handbuilt “factory hot rods” and dragster teams’ obsession with legitimately breaking the 200-mph “barrier” combined to create unprecedented interest in drag racing. This year alone, Robert E. Petersen’s powerful monthlies were joined on news racks nationwide by two independent titles dedicated to drag racing exclusively: Virginia-based Super Stock & Drag Illustrated and Los Angeles–produced Drag Racing magazine. The straight-line sport also continued to support a pair of weekly tabloids, Drag News and Drag Sport Illustrated.

More so than for any season yet revisited in our series, this year’s highlights cannot be adequately covered in the 10 pages allotted to each Power Struggles installment. More than 3,000 rolls of black-and-white film were exposed by staff photographers and writers between January and December, most of which are preserved in the archives maintained by PPC’s corporate successor, The Enthusiast Network. From those tens of thousands of individual images, we’ve prioritized outtakes that, though rejected by our editorial ancestors, tell 1964’s stories as well or better than the photos printed in major Petersen monthlies—or maybe not. Judge for yourself, now that the hundreds of shots published by HRM’s editors are viewable online. The HOT ROD Club gives Platinum members unlimited access to every page of every issue since Volume One, Number One (January 1948), for a modest annual fee. We go there often for research, from wherever we are, using whatever Internet device is handy. Find details at club.hotrod.com.

Back-to-back explosions of two near-full fuel tanks, each containing about 40 gallons of gasoline, consumed the cars of Dave MacDonald and Eddie Sachs on the second lap of the Indianapolis 500. Sachs is believed to have been killed upon impact, while MacDonald was ejected and died hours later in a hospital. Speculation about why MacDonald, a rising sports car star known for fearlessness, lost control of Mickey Thompson’s year-old racer ranged from rookie inexperience to aerodynamic issues resulting from ill-advised body modifications. A half-century later, an entire book was written about Thompson’s two-car team, the several drivers who tested his revolutionary Indy cars, the accident itself, and its immediate aftermath: Black Noon—The Year They Stopped The Indy 500, by Art Garner. (Photo: Bob D’Olivo)

The steel barrier bordering Riverside International Raceway’s notorious Turn Six remained imprinted by Joe Weatherly’s Mercury following his fatal crash midway through January’s Motor Trend 500. Either a stuck throttle or brake failure apparently propelled the two-time-defending NASCAR champion into the barrier at approximately 80 mph. Weatherly, who preferred a loose lap belt to the shoulder harnesses already in use by some competitors, died instantly when his head exited the window opening and hit the wall. (See Apr. ’64 HRM & MT.) Shown passing the eerie reminder is third-place-finisher Fireball Roberts, who himself died this year from injuries suffered in a fiery wreck at Charlotte. (See Aug. & Sept. ’64 MT; Jan. ’65 MT.)

Earlier in that fateful Riverside weekend, Mercury teammates Joe Weatherly (right) and Dave MacDonald chatted in the pits. Four months later, MacDonald died after triggering the Indy 500 crash that also claimed Eddie Sachs.

Riverside’s road course was particularly tricky and treacherous for heavy stock cars. Clem Proctor’s 427ci Galaxie was an early casualty of the Motor Trend 500, crashing on the 15th of 185 laps. Eddie Gray (98) ultimately advanced from 39th (of 44) qualifying position to finish 12th in Ralph Shelton’s year-old Mercury.

Nitromethane officially returned to NHRA at the season-opening Winternationals, ending the seven-year fuel ban. Jack Williams (far lane) emerged victorious in Saturday’s 31-car AA/Fuel Dragster class competition, thereby earning automatic entry into Sunday’s Top Fuel Eliminator final round. His semifinal victim was favored Chris Karamesines (near side). Following a frantic overnight trip to Bakersfield to replace the Crossley, Williams & Swan team’s wounded Chrysler, Jack returned just in time to meet and defeat Tommy Ivo in Sunday’s grand finale, 8.16/193.12 to 8.24/191.48. Williams went on to win June’s inaugural Hot Rod Magazine Championships and Fremont’s summer regionals, finish second at September’s NHRA Nationals (to Don Garlits), and accumulate enough points to become NHRA’s first Top Fuel world champ. Car Craft rewarded the team with a comprehensive technical article in the Mar. ’65 issue. (Also see Pomona event coverage, Apr. ’64 HRM & May ’64 CC.)

Chrysler’s second-generation Hemi (right) was an instant NASCAR success, powering Plymouths to a top-three sweep in its Daytona 500 debut and snapping Ford’s two-year, 10-race undefeated streak in NASCAR races of 500 or more miles. Richard Petty’s first big win was also the first major Grand National victory for Plymouth in 14 years. Teammates Jimmy Pardue and Paul Goldsmith finished second and third, respectively. (See May ’64 MT.)

His son’s breakthrough win followed Lee Petty’s victory in the inaugural 1959 Daytona 500. This was the first major auto race ever won by a both a father and son. Lee, who retired from driving not long after recovering from a spectacular crash in the 1961 500 (see Nov. ’16 HRD), became NASCAR’s only three-time Grand National champion (1954, 1958, 1959) before transitioning to team owner and crewchief.

The end of the domination enjoyed since the late 1950s by the blown Willys of KS Pittman and engine-builder John Edwards was punctuated by this crushing defeat at Bakersfield’s U.S. Gas and Fuel Championships. Bones Balogh (far lane) won the A/Gas Supercharged trophy dash with an unprecedented 9.77-second blast in John Mazmanian’s candy-red Willys (at 146.56 mph). Bones also swept both the 1964 NHRA Winternationals and Hot Rod Championships .

The quickest and fastest “stockers” of early 1964 were a trio of blown, injected exhibition cars built by Dragmaster Co. for Detroit promoter Don Beebe, who hired Jimmy Nix (far lane) and Jim Johnson as fulltime drivers. NHRA created the Supercharged/Factory Experimental category specifically for these cars, with one condition: that they race only against each other. Prior to this April appearance at San Diego Raceway, Johnson had clocked high 10s at 141 mph in testing at Lions Drag Strip, at a time when conventional, carbureted A/FXers were running mid-11s and low 120s. The promising program was plagued from the start by track and towing accidents that ultimately resulted in its early, ugly conclusion (as detailed in HRM’s May ’09 recollections by Johnson), but not before a national tour inspired countless little-guy racers to bolt on blowers and “turn pro.” One of the Chargers survived and has been fully restored. (See July ’64 & May ’09 HRM.)

Imagine Ak Miller’s surprise, drifting through this corner between clueless spectators. The five-time Pikes Peak winner’s new Cobra Kit Special was actually a Devin body adapted to an AC Bristol chassis, all powered by a 289 Ford equipped with Carroll Shelby’s Cobra engine package. He finished second in the Sports Car class to Bobby Unser’s mid-engined Lotus-Climax.

For the second straight year, Parnelli Jones topped the Stock Car category in a Mercury Marauder. His record-setting time of 13:52.2 was the first under 14 minutes for a stocker on the 12.42-mile, all-dirt course.

The five-amber Drag-Tronics electronic system that debuted a year earlier was not well received by open-wheel racers accustomed to flag starters or single-bulb, “instant-green” starts. After John Batto red-lighted during NHRA’s Northern California Regional Championship, his pissed-off push-truck driver intentionally chopped down Fremont Raceway’s Christmas tree. Eventual national-champion Jack Williams added critical NHRA points by taking Top Fuel Eliminator at a meet that saw Denny Milani come oh-so-close to officially breaking the 200-mph barrier, settling for a new national record of 198.66 in Ted Gotelli’s fueler.

In August, puddling water, high winds, and rough salt added up to some of the worst conditions ever seen at Bonneville, shortening the course to 6.5 miles. Nevertheless, Burt Munro had come all the way from New Zealand, determined to hit 200 mph with the Indian Scout he’d purchased brand-new in 1920. He wobbled and weaved his way up to 184 mph on a wild ride that hammered loose a lock nut in the rear wheel and, he later learned, broke his back. Despite the pain from what proved to be a dislocated spine, the 65-year-old repaired the bike, made time for the ladies, and was next in line for a record attempt when 70-mph winds prematurely ended the 16th Bonneville Nationals. (See Nov. ’64 HRM & CC, Dec. ’64 MT.)

Ford Walters spent most of Speed Week trying to work the bugs out of the first steam-powered car ever seen on the salt. He reminded HRM’s Eric Dahlquist that a steamer had set a land speed record of 127 mph in 1906, but never came close to that speed 58 years later.

His youthful pit crew pushed Dick Beith off to multiple attempts at the H/Streamliner record of 144.436 mph, but the swoopy minicar’s 44ci Mercury outboard engine topped out at 141.50.

Despite a rare focus flub by chief PPC photographer Bob D’Olivo, his smoky shot clearly illustrates one reason why race reports credited Jack Chrisman with stealing the show at NHRA’s Nationals. The other was the noise produced by a supercharged, injected Ford 427 Hi-Riser, the first blown-fuel motor ever installed in a new car. Laughingly classified as a B/Fuel Dragster, the world’s original fuel Funny Car clocked low-10-second e.t.’s at 156.31, the quickest and fastest times ever recorded by a late-model “stocker.” Prior to Chrisman’s conversion, the same body had dominated early season A/Factory Experimental competition. With Bill Shrewsberry driving, the carbureted Comet Caliente won class at the NHRA Winternationals, Bakersfield’s March Meet, and Riverside’s Hot Rod meet, running 11.30s at nearly 125 mph. (See Sept. ’64, Nov. ’64 & July ’65 HRM.)

The cab-forward pickup truck that accidentally invented exhibition wheelstanding was intended for land-based A/FX competition. Dodge teammates Dick Branstner and Roger Lindamood, this year’s NHRA Nationals Stock Eliminator champions with their Hemi-powered Color Me Gone (background), took over the project after Jim Schaeffer and John Collier prepared the body and started on the chassis. Moving back the original, 101-hp Slant Six’s location by 20 inches placed fully 52 percent of the weight on the rear wheels—and produced midtrack powerstands that proved uncontrollable until Bill “Maverick” Golden ultimately took the wheel and created a career. (See Dec. ’64 CC.)

After GM shut off sponsorship to road-racing teams in early 1963, then suddenly stopped supplying Corvette parts for Bill Thomas Race Cars’ Cheetah program this year, it was left to a handful of independents to defend Chevrolet’s honor against a fleet of Ford-backed Cobras. The 1,500-pound, 377ci Cheetah ran away from them on straightaways, but was twitchy in the corners. Seattle Chevy dealer Alan Green campaigned this much-modified model extensively in 1964. Allen Grant was driving at Riverside’s Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in early October. (See Sept. ’63 & Mar. ’64 HRM; May ’13 HRD.)

Shown are the same car and driver, at the same Riverside event, demonstrating the Cheetah’s unnerving tendency to suddenly swap ends in turns. Allen Grant managed to keep Alan Green Chevrolet’s entry intact and make it back to Riverside two weeks later for a nonpoints meet sponsored by Petersen’s Sports Car Graphic magazine, but again spun out of contention.

Bob D’Olivo captured 27-year-old Bruce McLaren enroute to winning Riverside’s 200-mile qualifying race for the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, the first victory of a spectacular career. Powered by a Traco-built, all-aluminum Olds F-85 V8, the prototype McLaren-Elva Mark I started on the pole for the next day’s main event and led two laps before retiring with breakage. (See Jan. ’65 MT.)

This helicopter got the attention of the starter and starting-line photographers by crash landing at Riverside Raceway. Contrary to a banner evidently left over from an SCCA meet two weeks earlier, this late-October event was actually the season-ending American Road Race of Champions. Amateur drivers qualified by finishing among the top four in their respective classes and SCCA regions. Petersen’s Sports Car Graphic magazine sponsored the nonpoints meet that is considered the template for the annual SCCA Championships introduced a year later. (See Feb. ’65 MT.)

In September, Dick Landy converted the ’64 Super Stocker seen at the NHRA Nationals into a prototype for the altered-wheelbase Dodges and Plymouths destined to change the face of drag racing in January 1965. Still sporting primered traces of the bodywork required to relocate its rearend and a straight front axle from an A-100 van, the outlaw combination was a major match-race attraction during a brief Eastern tour at the end of this season. (See Feb. ’65 HRM.)

For multiple reasons, these archive negatives have baffled us for years. Photographer Darryl Norenberg exposed four B&W rolls at a private test session of the earliest SOHC 427-equipped Mustang we’ve found on film. The fact that he rushed that film to PPC’s photo lab on December 31, New Year’s eve, indicates some urgency to get exclusive images processed, printed, and into print ASAP, yet none ever appeared in any magazine that we’ve examined. Externally, the test car looks identical to the fleet of A/FX fastbacks that would debut here a month later for NHRA’s Winternationals. Under the hood, however, sits the only single-carb intake we’ve seen on a Cammer Mustang. Fifty-three years later, FoMoCo expert Rick Kirk reveals that this red 2+2 was the very first SOHC model built. It was hauled from Michigan to Pomona for midwinter testing not possible in the frigid Midwest. Ford racing boss Charlie Gray and drag-team-leader Dick Brannan also made the trip. Because an eight-barrel intake was still being developed by Ford, they made do with a manifold presumably designed—like the cylinder heads—for single-carb NASCAR competition. Both Gas Ronda and Bill Ireland later campaigned this car, which became known as Goldfinger and was ultimately crushed by the factory. The one mystery that Kirk can’t solve is why such a hot scoop of a story never made print. Alas, the photographer and PPC’s editors took that answer to their graves.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s red flag flew for 90-plus minutes while crews removed wrecked cars, cleaned the track, and finally restarted the only 500 ever stopped by something other than rain.

Starting from 14th position in the fifth row, Indy rookie Dave MacDonald passed five cars in the first lap before losing control exiting Turn Four, hitting the wall, exploding in flames, and spinning across the track in front of Eddie Sachs. MacDonald was ejected and survived, badly burned, for a few hours.

A second explosion erupted when Ted Halibrand’s Shrike drove into Mickey Thompson’s flaming Sears-Allstate Special, both of which were loaded with nearly full tanks of gasoline. Veteran driver Eddie Sachs reportedly died on impact.

Eventual winner A.J. Foyt isolated himself for the duration of the cleanup, either unaware of or unwilling to accept reports of any mortally wounded competitors. Event coverage reported that when he finally glanced down and read the headline across a makeshift edition of the Indianapolis Star handed to him by someone from the newspaper, his expression instantly changed from elation to depression—as evidenced by Bob D’Olivo’s chilling sequence.

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