Buddy Baker- 2007 Daytona 500

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At an event sponsored by Grand Prix Tours,Buddy Baker talks about his NASCAR career, and setting the speed record.

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[Reddaytonadog]

Big Buddy Baker. He looked more like a linebacker back when he drove. 177.602 miles an hour at Daytona in 1980 and breaks 200 miles an hour at a closed course at Talladega in 1970.

He'd have been a champion, but running the #15 would have been a championship team. Like father, like son, both he and Buck were winners.

[SuperSylvia7]

is he related to Jimmy Baker? from Jonesboro?

[elam9000]

He's like Bobby Allison, 80% of his stories are true.

[mark miller]

greatest story teller in nascar history. man i miss him in the booth

[FatBird11]

My dad was a native Tar Heel. I think him and a friend of his told me a story about Buddy when he drove for Crisco.

They told me he was called the Crisco Kid. Someone asked him, "Buddy, do they still call you the Crisco Kid?" and he was supposed to have replied, "Not anymore, now that I'm losing they just call me lard ass."

[Jeremy Newton]

Cool.

[David Culpepper]

he's my third cousin twice removed

[Jeremy Newton]

He is my 4th cousin!