|| *Comments on the 1985 Permatex 500:* View the most recent comment <#15> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. 23andJoe posted: 04.22.2014 - 6:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #6 owner: Wayne Peterson #6 crew chief: Wayne Peterson 2. 23andJoe posted: 04.22.2014 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race name was "Permatex 500" Attendance: 35,000 The #06 was started by Bob Schacht. Magnuson qualified the car, and relief-drove for Schacht, but Schacht was the driver of record for the race. Davey Allison led 30 laps and won $8,825 Ken Ragan led 50 laps #08 owner: Carl Anderson #45 owner: John McFadden #73 owner: Joey Sonntag #92 owner: Ralph Jones #96 owner: James Stoner To the rear: #06 Schacht (driver change) 3. Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted: 04.23.2014 - 3:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the race where Ken Ragan broke his neck after hitting the wall in Turns 1 and 2. 4. The Great Dave posted: 05.01.2014 - 7:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) there were 39 starters Two drivers made the field but did not start the race. Fin 39 St 39 # 41 Driver Joe Booher Sponsor / Owner Car Laps 0 Money Status Did Not Start Led 0 Fin 40 St 40 # 5 Driver Greg Sacks Sponsor / Owner Car Chevy Laps 0 Money Status Did Not Start Led 0 5. ARCA Stats posted: 04.23.2018 - 3:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #41 Sponsor: A-1 Auto Parts 6. rm posted: 05.22.2018 - 11:20 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) An article written in a local paper the morning of the race about ARCA's technological advancements is quite funny now, 30+ years on. An excerpt: "ARCA racing isn't what it used to be. Thank God for that. No longer does a blue haze of smoke roll out from the exhausts of a dozen cars. No longer are the cars junkyard refugees that lose a fender in one turn and a windshield in the next." It seems like some of the happenings that cause people to poke fun at ARCA even now were also criticisms of the series in the 80s! Of course, that statement is an exaggeration no matter what era of ARCA you're talking about, but I felt that was worth posting about... A followup article the next day recapping the race noted that there were 23 lead changes (not 22) among 9 drivers, setting a then-series record. Margin of victory - half a carlength Source for the stats: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106789009/ 7. rm posted: 06.13.2018 - 8:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ken Ragan's crash was particularly nasty, as would be expected for an accident that a driver broke his neck in. Following a lap 105 restart for fluid on the track, Ragan got a huge jump over his top competitor all day, Davey Allison. Allison brought Lee Raymond with him and started to reel in Ragan over the next two laps. Allison got to within striking range coming through the trioval and looked poised to make a move on lap 108. Allison went low and Ragan tried to move to block the run, but lost control as he started to steer down the banking. Ragan overcorrected and shot into the outside wall with the right front first, narrowly missing a head-on collision. This raises an interesting yet morbid alternate timeline: what if Ragan's car rotates just a few more degrees and he hits the wall straight on? Perhaps it would have been no worse than it already was, but it really doesn't seem like a stretch to say it could have been fatal. Ultimately, his career in top tier stock car racing didn't make a huge dent after he came back, but that's not what I'm quite getting at here - what if the then-unborn David Ragan never takes up racing, not following in his father's footsteps? It's already a what-if for some people now to ponder what could have been if someone else took over Mark Martin's ride when he left Roush, but what if Ragan wasn't a factor at all because he never went racing? Like I said, it's really morbid and awful to think about, but my first thought after seeing the video of the accident was that he cheated death. That just led me down the rabbit hole from there... 8. MSportRev posted: 09.26.2019 - 2:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gary Nufer, John McFadden, and Mark Gibson were running The following DNQ'd: Bob Schacht: #75 Pontiac Brian Tobin: #11 Mercury Jack Hughes: #44 Chrysler George Wiltshire: #05 Oldsmobile John Haver: #79 Buick Randy Smith: #06 Buick Burgess White: #28 Chevrolet Bob Penrod: #95 Chevrolet Jim Ingalls: #78 Chevrolet 9. RaceFanX posted: 09.26.2019 - 2:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DC Listing: Scott Magnuson- #06 Don's Auto Sales Buick (owned by Wayne Peterson) 10. Ralphie posted: 09.26.2019 - 2:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @8 It's unlikely those guys, especially Gibson, were running at the finish. Where do you get this info from? 11. MSportRev posted: 09.26.2019 - 2:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @9 Ultimate Racing History, looks like they may never have officially retired from the race and were still classified as 'running' despite not being on track. 12. David posted: 09.27.2019 - 2:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) According to the website where you obtained this data, Randy Smith in the #06 was a DC rather than a DNQ. 13. MSportRev posted: 09.28.2019 - 2:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brian Tobin ran USAC Stock Car races and ARCA in 1984, this was his final attempt that I can find for him in stock cars. Home: Montgomery, IL 14. RaceFanX posted: 03.17.2020 - 10:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Alabama's own Davey Allison had a talent for pulling off wins here at Talladega. Here Allison held off eventual champion Lee Raymond and his Alabama Gang buddy Red Farmer as he scored his fourth and final ARCA win at this track before he moved up to the Cup level. 15. rm posted: 07.30.2020 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lap leaders: Venturini 1-3, Raymond 4, Venturini 5-8, Allison 9-23, Ragan 24-28, Dotter 29, Farmer 30-31, Venturini 32-34, Ragan 35-37, Venturini 38-45, Ragan 46, Allison 47, Sosebee 48-53, Lowe 54-56, Ragan 57-62, Venturini 63-66, Harvey 67, Ragan 68-82, Allison 83-85, Raymond 86-87, Ragan 88-100, Allison 101, Ragan 102-107, Allison 108-117 Laps led: Raymond 3, Farmer 2, Venturini 22, Harvey 1, Lowe 3, Dotter 1, Sosebee 6, Ragan 49 41 owner - Jody Pemberton 77 owner - Jerry Hansen 41 manufacturer - Oldsmobile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: