The other night I was looking through one of my old Atlanta Motor Speedway programs form the early '90's and I saw and advertisement for a station called WQUL,it was the Nascar station in Atlanta before Y106. I don't remember this station,does anybody else?
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Thank you freebird.
It's slogan use to be south metro's solid gold station.
Wow! Would it be possible to obtain some tapes of that old coverage?!?!?! As a huge fan of the underdogs, this would be a dream come true! Do any tapes still exist? I'd gladly pay if necessary. Do you have any or do you know of any contact info for whomever might have them? If you can help in any way, please email me (my address is my screen name here @ gmail.com) or PM me! Thanks.
I found some action on some old resume tapes from 20 years ago.
The interviews on the qualifying coverage were edited for times sake. Listening to it 20 years later..it is what it was. Can't be compared to MRN or PRN. But, considering we only did two events a year- the spring and fall races at Atlanta- it isn't too bad. I only cringed a little.
We didn't have a computer back then and to keep up with qualifying. We had cards that we placed on the floor. Our field mikes were something put together by Racing Radios.
I had to anchor the broadcast and run the board at the same time. Plus calling a race with 40 cars is a lot more challenging then doing what I am used to which is football, basketball and baseball.
The crew included Chris Larsen, Danny Bishop, a guy whose name I can't remember and Doug Rice, from the Performance Racing Network and me- Barney Bonfield.
What is kind of shocking is how many names that are mentioned that are no longer living. Dale Earnhardt, Davey Allison, Alan Kulwicki and Grant Adcox.
Here is an audio link:
http://toombsnow.biz/downloads/wqulracecoverage.mp3
The interviews on the qualifying coverage were edited for times sake. Listening to it 20 years later..it is what it was. Can't be compared to MRN or PRN. But, considering we only did two events a year- the spring and fall races at Atlanta- it isn't too bad. I only cringed a little.
We didn't have a computer back then and to keep up with qualifying. We had cards that we placed on the floor. Our field mikes were something put together by Racing Radios.
I had to anchor the broadcast and run the board at the same time. Plus calling a race with 40 cars is a lot more challenging then doing what I am used to which is football, basketball and baseball.
The crew included Chris Larsen, Danny Bishop, a guy whose name I can't remember and Doug Rice, from the Performance Racing Network and me- Barney Bonfield.
What is kind of shocking is how many names that are mentioned that are no longer living. Dale Earnhardt, Davey Allison, Alan Kulwicki and Grant Adcox.
Here is an audio link:
http://toombsnow.biz/downloads/wqulracecoverage.mp3
Thanks toombs,I will give it a listen,it is sad that Dale Earnhardt,Davey Allison,Alan Kulwicki,and Grant Addcock is no longer with us. I believe Grant Addcok died at the last race in '89,the next year at the last race Mike rich a crew member for Bill elliott was killed when Ricky Rudd slamed into Elliott's car on pit road,that's when Nascar came up with a speed limit on pit road.
Thanks toombs,I will give it a listen,it is sad that Dale Earnhardt,Davey Allison,Alan Kulwicki,and Grant Addcock is no longer with us. I believe Grant Addcok died at the last race in '89,the next year at the last race Mike rich a crew member for Bill elliott was killed when Ricky Rudd slamed into Elliott's car on pit road,that's when Nascar came up with a speed limit on pit road.
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