I've been working on a project for a friend that has a big-chunk of NASCAR-related stuff in it, mostly covering the early 80s through around 2010, and holy shit, until NASCAR got serious about electronic timing in 1993, there's a lot of missing info about races (lead changes, positions outside of the top 20, etc.). They relied on the teams themselves appointing somebody to tally laps and/or how the drivers were doing, which means a lot of older data is missing (or rather misplaced) for one reason or another. It's out there though, and I've noticed over time they put more and more online (or indivdiausl do). if you could get access to the original camera feeds of a race (not what we saw on TV), you could put a lot of the info together.
And a whole lot of people who were recording races on their VCRs in the 80s and 90s have uploaded hundreds of races to YouTube which is awesome and has helped me out with some stuff (I have several dozen races on VHS myself, but not nearly as good of a quality as some folks). What's really awesome is the kids whose parents had satellite dishes and who have uploaded the raw satellite feeds to YouTube - hearing (and seeing) Chris Economaki, Ken Squier, Neil Bennett, Bob Jenkins, Jerry Punch, etc. farting around before the race and doing microphone checks with drivers in the cars, or rehearsing how they were going to start a segment off, etc., can be amusing.
I setup a couple of saved video lists on YouTube, and my son noticed the Davey Allison one, and saw some Alan Kulwiki stuff in there, and made the connection to my large collection of Allison and Kulwiki die cast cars, programs, posters, photos, and a few personal autographs and a bunch of other racing-related stuff as well (and later Havoline racing drivers gear/memorabilia along with Indy/CART/F1/touring car/etc.).
He saw some of the video names mentioned memorials to Davey and Alan and asked me if they were dead and commented that I must have liked them a lot to have all of that stuff. We watched a few race highlights, and then watched Slapshoes's 1992 Atlanta tribute and he told me he that they were pretty cool.
Me, I was just...