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December 02, 2025 at
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December 08, 2025 at
06:55:03 AM by saphead
Video of motel parking lot maintenance from the week of the 1987 Knoxville Nationals. If you geek out on 1980's sprint car history like I do this is incredible. Wolfie in short shorts, Davey Brown Sr., Fred Grenoble, big Bob watching like a hawk, firing up the car in said parking lot no helmet with a Ford Tempo rental car, it's got it all.
I'm guessing it's B-roll footage from the Hidden Heroes episode of the same week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmauWllOPWs
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December 02, 2025 at
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Very cool video. In those days, I was a scruffy, wolfgang, and doty fan. It's stuff like this that made nationals week so awesome. Firing the car in the parking lot would get you a ticket nowadays.
The Wolf had some guns on him back then.
I was always a fan of the guys that wrenched on their stuff and knew what they were doing.
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December 02, 2025 at
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Posted By: saphead on December 02 2025 at 12:23:44 PM
Video of motel parking lot maintenance from the week of the 1987 Knoxville Nationals. If you geek out on 1980's sprint car history like I do this is incredible. Wolfie in short shorts, Davey Brown Sr., Fred Grenoble, big Bob watching like a hawk, firing up the car in said parking lot no helmet with a Ford Tempo rental car, it's got it all.
I'm guessing it's B-roll footage from the Hidden Heroes episode of the same week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmauWllOPWs
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Great video. Cool to see Fred Grenoble the Brown's got all the credit and deservedly so but Fred was sometimes forgotten but was a big part of that incredible team.
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December 02, 2025 at
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Cool video. It would be even cooler with a blow by blow narration explaining all thje adjustments they were making!
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December 03, 2025 at
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Posted By: revjimk on December 02 2025 at 11:28:20 PM
Cool video. It would be even cooler with a blow by blow narration explaining all thje adjustments they were making!
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Yes, I was kinda pissed the generator was running, I was trying to listen to every word said.
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December 03, 2025 at
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Posted By: saphead on December 03 2025 at 06:55:51 AM
Yes, I was kinda pissed the generator was running, I was trying to listen to every word said.
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Wolfgang will be regarded as one of the best. Bob Trostle said He was one of the best fabricators and welders He ever knew.
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