Racing nicknames

[49wrench]

Badland Bandit

[MI Dirt Fan]

Cookie monster

[chubfrankfan]

" The Shoestring Traveler "

[EvelB7]

A couple from my early years..... 'Injun" Joe Merryfield and 'Turbo' Ted Pallister

[jlacey]

The Virginia Leadfoot
The Beast From the East

[hucktyson]

The Pennsylvania Hole Beater .... aka the only dude who has sold hundreds of shirts without winning any super late races yet ..... who else can claim that ???

[Mason87]

Running Bear

[Barbecueboy]

The Pennsylvania Hole Beater .... aka the only dude who has sold hundreds of shirts without winning any super late races yet ..... who else can claim that ???

Real question is.......who would publicly want too?

[ThebigE]

The "Jedi"
The Wayne Hurricane
The McClure Madman

[Dlmfan123]

At the moment I think mine is “the crusher kid” mike Norris

[joshroth14]

"Mr. Smooth"

[joshroth14]

"The Real Deal" Don O'Neal
"The Re-Deal" Marty O'Neal
"The New Deal" Hudson O'Neal

[ZERO25]

The Pennsylvania Hole Beater .... aka the only dude who has sold hundreds of shirts without winning any super late races yet ..... who else can claim that ???

I bet Brian Gray has setup more winning racecars than you have sold shirts!

I also bet....Serge.....bought most of those shirts!

[bill94el]

"Never Nervous" Purvis

[Stefan2k4]

I believe he may have been the only guy that used his nickname as his number. ?

Mike's Flinstone Flyer was certainly cool, but I don't think he was the only one to do this. For example, Hot Rod Lmance, which I previously mentioned, many times ran the number 8 with the top half of the 8 being the "o" in the word "Hot" and the bottom half being the "o" in the word "Rod". You can see his car in this youtube video.

https://youtu.be/phORLTyY4qM

I believe that year he went on to win the track championship at both Cherokee and Riverside (Now known as Travelers Rest) with a 358 clements Ford under the hood, the little motor that could and did! Anyway, I'm sure there were many others who used their nicknames as numbers also, like the Nightstalker, who only had "Nightstalker" on the side of his cars.

As for other classes, I don't know if anyone has mentioned "The Wild Child" in sprintcars yet.

On a tangent, but still racing nicknames, Drag racing has had it's share as well with "Big Daddy", "Cha Cha", "Ace", "the Proffesor", "Grumpy", "The Golden Greek" , and "Tricky Ricky". And of course who could forget Don "The Snake" prudhomme and Tom "The Mongosse" Mcewen. Sadly, we lost "The Mongosse" earlier this year. To learn the history of their friendly rivalry, partnership, and Hotwhells sponsorship deal check out the movie "Snake and Mongosse".

One lesser known, mostly regional drag racer, was Pro modified driver, Tommy Gray. With his family being in the funeral home business, he decide to use the nickname "undertaker". He would sometimes even dress his crew members to fit the part as the Grim reaper complete with prop sickles and coffins they would emerge from.
https://www.motorsport.com/us/drag/n...-gray/2890722/