• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

A Very Good Read

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WR BOB

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I just read Humpy Wheeler's "Growing Up NASCAR". Humpy is a brilliant businessman specially in the field of sports marketing. If you are remotely interested in NASCAR or sportsmarketing, you should read his book.

WR Bob
 
The market side of any thing is usually interesting due to the fact that most of us have zero education in the field and that makes us normally clueless on what is happening behind the scenes and have no idea how these guys get our money out of our pockets so easily ...

nascar is pretty much a joke today in many ways ... It is much safer (and a very good thing) for the drivers I'd say due to the car and finally some track changes ... But they stomp little guys and will slant things for the stars at times... Zero loyalty in this crowd today .... Just lip service ... Look at how they started their hall of fame...

Why would this guy be brilliant? :)
 
ray_ray;125273 said:
The market side of any thing is usually interesting due to the fact that most of us have zero education in the field and that makes us normally clueless on what is happening behind the scenes and have no idea how these guys get our money out of our pockets so easily ...

nascar is pretty much a joke today in many ways ... It is much safer (and a very good thing) for the drivers I'd say due to the car and finally some track changes ... But they stomp little guys and will slant things for the stars at times... Zero loyalty in this crowd today .... Just lip service ... Look at how they started their hall of fame...

Why would this guy be brilliant? :)
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First off he started his first business as a kid repairing bicycles for the local kids. Then started weekend bike races that he charged small entry fees for and gave winning prices. He wrote for the local paper covering small town car races as a teenager, which led to him being a race promoter even before before attending college where he got a journalism degree.

I could go on for hours, then you would have to read the book, right. He's the most highly reguarded and consulted man in auto racing still today. His life story in this book would make everyone from John Wayne to Obama jealous! Guess I'm partial because I know his family well. Thanks for asking. ;)

WR Bob
 
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