There's not a lot of Tim Richmond stuff out there. His career was tragically brief, and ended before the explosive growth of NASCAR's fan base. He never won a championship. But his was a remarkable story, and in 2002, Tim Richmond was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
My webhost won't allow me to code in the name of the site that sounds like Ammazon, but if you go there and search "Tim Richmond", you'll find David Poole's book Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's Top Gun, and a DVD produced by ESPN in 2010 called Tim Richmond: To The Limit. Both are excellent studies of the man.
The nav links to the left (and at the bottom of this page) are simply articles I found around the Web and re-coded. They're archived here not only to reduce the redundancy that comes from a web search, but moreover as a hedge against the original webpages disappearing— think of them as my virtual scrapbook of netpaper clippings.
Meanwhile, the foremost intent of this page is just to show my little Tim Richmond cars.
My Little Cars
RCCA cars, made by Racing Champions, 1991 |
Fan club cars, made by Racing Champions, 1991 |
Monogram 1:24 scale model kit, 1986 |
Monogram 1:24 scale model kit, 1986 |
ERTL 1:64 promo car, made in Korea, 1986
RCCA 1983 Blue Max 1:64 scale car, 1994 — 16,128 produced.
RCCA 1:64 scale car, 1996 — 10,000 produced.
Action/Lionel 1982 J.D. Stacy 1:64 scale car, 2013 — "Limited Edition".
Onsite ArchivesSam Moses' Sports Illustrated article Fast, Fit, and Feisty, 1987 Associated Press, 1989 Dick Berggren's Stock Car Racing article A Scrapbook to Remember Him, 1989 Liz Clarke's excellent Charlotte Observer article All But Forgotten, 1994 Matt McLaughlin's popular biography Loss of a Legend, 1998 Ten Years After, 1999 Tim Richmond Left Colorful Legacy Behind, 2004 When Watkins Glen Comes Up, the Memories Do, Too, 2006 |
A Banner Day at Watkins Glen, 2006 Note: In July 1998, a large group of devoted fans petitioned to have Tim Richmond honored at Pocono, for the 11th anniversary of Tim's emotional comeback win there. NASCAR, the networks, and track owner Joe Mattioli refused to honor Tim in any way. In response, the fans hired a plane to fly a banner during the Daytona 500 in 1999. Tom Higgin's story refers to a similar banner, flown eight years later. One of NASCAR'S Best, 2006 David Exum's Boston Herald article Remembering Richmond, 2007 Offsite LinksRemembering Tim Richmond, 1998 |
Top Photo credit: Candice Freeland/Charlotte Observer
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