Buck Simmons ' Living Legend '

Dougman Davis was wearing one of these over his firesuit when they put him in the Mecklenburg County jail.....at 4 am...He begged em to let him sit at their desk instead of the holding cell.....Where they were yelling at him for his " sissy shiny jacket ". . . They put him in there any way......In 15 min they hauled 3 out to the hospital....They were Sooo glad to see me there getting him out.......The court date was pretty good too....." I was praying on Billy Graham Blvd that I was gonna make it back to Shelby " The Judge laughed & let him go....the NCHP Trooper raised Hell....& the Judge kept the NC HPman til after court - Billy Billings jacket - ...#DuanesTravels

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - This short story was originally by Brandon Reed and I am using a modified version of it with his permission. Buck Simmons, winner of over 1,000 feature events in a career that spanned over five decades. Simmons, a member of both the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame and the National Dirt Racing Hall of Fame, was born July 31, 1946. The Baldwin, Georgia native was nothing less than a racing legend.... The start of his stellar career began just down the road from his home, behind the wheel of the water truck at the Banks County Speedway, which was owned by fellow Georgia Racing Hall of Fame member Tommie Irvin. His parents were good friends of mine, said Irvin in a 2007 interview. When he was about 12 or 14 years old, he got an old car and started driving around the track on Saturdays while we were working. Finally, his daddy put him in a race car, and he really started racing down there when he was 14. Simmons learned to win early on, taking the win in his third career start at Westminster, S.C. Over his career, Simmons beat some of the best drivers on dirt or on asphalt. He beat Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough in an asphalt late model event at Baton Rouge, La. He defeated the legendary Dale Earnhardt Sr. on a dirt track at Hartsville-Darlington, S.C. He won the Alabama 200 at Montgomery Motor Speedway in 1975, and the Rattler 100 at South Alabama Speedway in 1976. Simmons competed several times in the famed Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla. in the seventies, with his best effort coming in 1977, when he finished second to fellow Georgia Racing Hall of Famer Ronnie Sanders. Simmons competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series in several events in 1979 and 1980, including events at Atlanta, Ontario, Rockingham, Bristol, Darlington, Martinsville, Talladega. He also competed in events in what is now known as the K&N Pro West Series, at Phoenix and Ontario, the latter of which he won the pole. But it was on the short tracks where he showed his true talents, taking on and beating the likes of fellow Hall of Famers, Bud Lunsford, Doug Kenimer, Tootle Estes, Mike Head, Leon Sells, Jody Ridley, Charlie Mincey, and more. Simmons won on dirt and asphalt tracks all across the southeast, and was the 1981 National Dirt Racing Association champion. He also took wins in the United Dirt Track Racing Association and the Southern All-Stars. When Simmons climbed out of his legendary number 41 for the last time in 2003, he had amassed 1,012 victories. The accolades for his on-track success came in the form of being an inaugural inductee into the National Dirt Racing Hall of Fame in 2001, and in being inducted into the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in 2009.

Start of the 1972 Snowball Derby WIN : - - Ed Howe #67 and Buck Simmons #51 on the front row (Mike Howell Collection) - He Won the Governors Cup, Florida 200 in Tampa couple weeks before this - Danny Brower

Buck Simmons at Montgomery Ala in 1975 where he won the Alabama 200. He Won the Rattler in 1976 and finshed 2nd in the Snowball Derby in 1977. Simmons passed away Sunday, August 12th, 2012.

18-Ronnie Sanders & 81-Buck Simmons. photo from the 1979 Snowball Derby program