Episode 244 -- Danny Culler on Bringing Piedmont Sponsorship to RCR, Becoming NASCAR's First Spotter
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Show Notes
This week in the second installment of our interview with Danny Culler, he talks about coming in contact with NASCAR icons like Bill France Sr, Joe Weatherly, Curtis Turner and Fireball Roberts as a youth; his time in Vietnam and how he was working to get into the sport even then; flying for Piedmont Aviation; and the role he played in getting the company into the sport as a sponsor and helping steer them toward Richard Childress Racing.
In our second segment, hosts Rick Houston and Steve Waid dig into the January 14, 1982 issue of Grand National Scene.
This issue featured a jigsaw puzzle and how everything might or might not be falling into place for Richard Childress, Ricky Rudd, Mark Martin, Tim Richmond and Tom Sneva and sponsors Piedmont Aviation, Texaco and Hardee's.
Gene Granger gives us his top-10 stories from 1981 and the issue is rounded out by a feature on longtime independent driver H.B. Bailey.
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