After breakfast, a couple hundred of us would ride buses to various race shops in the Charlotte area and often beyond. Sometimes we went as far as Asheville, N.C., Taylorsville, N.C., or even Stuart, Va.
After the day's doings this day, we were back at the hotel that held the media members, and CMS publicist Jerry Gappens (now the GM at New Hampshire Motor Speedway) was telling us a funny story. I've seen various versions of the story, but the only difference is the numbers thrown out.
We went to Andy Petree's race shop, and they didn't have enough ash trays for the tables, so they used racing pistons. After we left, Andy's people called Jerry and said that some of the media members had taken as many as seven of the pistons. They may have thought they were gifts, but they were real pistons used in race cars. They needed them back.
So it was announced that whoever took the pistons needed to return them. When Jerry told us, I understood that Andy's shop was missing seven pistons. The funny thing is that they got eight back.
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