Great article…Dad and Dick Trickle were good friends. They had far more in common than many people could ever imagine (besides the smoking). I just bought a set of signed Dick Trickle gloves that have the thumb and forefinger cut off for holding a cigarette. First piece of memorabilia I’ve ever purchased outside the family. Read this article and you’ll understand why it meant so much to me to buy them. It’s the single best piece of motorsports journalism I’ve ever read. I tried to read it to our mom and dad down at Dale Hollow one weekend and several times I said to dad “that’s you…”. Had to hand my phone to our mom because I couldn’t finish it:
The good times and hard life of Dick Trickle
The elegy of a chain smoking, beer drinking, stock car racing legend who took his own life two months ago.www.sbnation.com