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Holly crap Chuck!! The world will be so much more bland without you dude!! There was only one...quirky, funny, and always quick with a joke!! Seeing you rumble up and down a live course dodging TT and Class-1 cars; passing out your "business cards" and saving the day for so many drivers was always a highlight of any event!! Your antics cannot be replaced, parallelled, or forgotten! See you on the other side, man...be sure to have the music blaring so we can find our way to the big post race party...
He was an awesome weirdo Randy. YOu woulda liked him... I met him here online and BSed with him here and on FB. He promised me a thrill ride in the rolls but I never got the chance to take it. Boy am i regretting that now.
I remember a conversation i was having with him just after my leg healed. We were comparing notes on what it was like to have metal installed in your body. That dude had broken a lot of bones over the years. any way, we were cracking jokes about metal detectors etc. and he shows me these bumps on his arm and explains that theres some screws he has in there that are slowly backing out. "Some people think im crazy" he says "but i tell them its not my fault, i just have a couple of screws loose"
Well the screws in my leg are backing out just like the ones in his arm and i use that "loose screws" line every now and then and always think of Chuck when I do it.
yeah, i think he and i could've enjoyed some late evening conversations for sure. i've always respected free thinking people that may not follow a certain social standard and go about things in their own way and don't mind blowing a few minds along the way. was he a bit crazy?...sounds like it...but the best people often are...
"so that's your wife? last time i saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it".........rodney dangerfield RIP....
yeah, i think he and i could've enjoyed some late evening conversations for sure. i've always respected free thinking people that may not follow a certain social standard and go about things in their own way and don't mind blowing a few minds along the way. was he a bit crazy?...sounds like it...but the best people often are...
It's exactly like that. Dude was far from normal. He was called "strange" but more correctly, he was just "perfectly different". I only got to chill with him a couple of times and those were polluted with tree bars in primm and dust in Laughlin. I handed over my ride in tbe rolls to a media guy at primm and chuck fussed over the fact he drove a lot of people around in his rig and I was supposed to be one of those people. He made me promise I would take tbe right seat for a "thrill ride" ( his words)
Now I have to surrender that. It's weird though, or more correctly strange? I started driving a limo as side work about a month ago. Tomorrow I have to drive a fake millionaire around. It's only a Lincoln but im gonna try and figure out a way to memorialize SCORE 44 tomorrow.
Chuck made a fuss over the fact he was excited to throw fast aid stickers on the rolls. I'm gonna try and pay that back on my limo without my boss knowing...
RIP Chuck! Does anyone know what happened? Had he been sick?
It would be nice to see Score do something in his memory.
Sal and Paul are aware of what has happened and I am confident that he will be honored appropriately by all those that have been fortunate to experiance him. Patience and more information will happen on any arrangements, plans and how we are a group can help and honor Chuck and his memory.
I met Chuck aroud 2006 at Primm .We broke the Blazer (again) and here comes Chuck to tow us out. Well, he picks me up and we head down the gravel haul road to meet he rest of our team. He tells me I don't need a safety harness because we are just going down the road. From the backseat, he flies over a 3' berm and I smash my heead to start. Then he's flying down the road playing with the race radio, lighting cigarettes, and fidgeting with his glasses each corner is a four wheel poer slide!! A BLM ranger pases us going the other way and he just flys past her dusting the Bronco out. ( Remember there is like a 30 MPH speed limit on that road during the races.) As we get to our team the guys are all pointing behind us. The BLM ranger was chasing with lights, siren, etc, going full speed. She walks up and starts berating Chuck and her backup starts showing up. She's ready to put him in cuffs when he pulls out her boss's business card and tells her to call her boss. Chuck had permisssion as an "Official SCORE Vehicle" to drive any speed he wanted out there!!! OMG!! Was she pissed!!!
Chuck, thanks for all the help and hte great memories. A unique and wonderful guy.
I always had a blast in the outfield area in laughlin. Not really sure how he did it, but he just seemed to always show up out of nowhere at rollovers or crews needing help. One time he told me to follow him to a rollover. That was one crazy (strange) route ti follow. Had some great times. Don't care to know how he died. I appreciate and honor how he lived.
Originally Posted by Dirtworks Films
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