there’s video of Ron taking care of Mike Williams attitude problem in a Limited race from the early 90’s. that was that Ford with the bad@$$ Cleveland on the web site.
it was such an ill handling bag of crap that he had to start the race crazy loose just so it wouldn’t push out of the corners like a dump truck by the end.
anyway, Ron was starting on the pole ( shocking i know ) and stayed at the front until the incident. being a high quality OSW show there were numerous cautions, Williams being involved in about half of them. sometimes they’d put him to the back of the field sometimes they’d let him keep his spot. well, Williams kept bulling his way through the field till he finally got to 2nd spot and there was another caution that he had nothing to do with.
at this time OSW was doing double file restarts so on the restart Williams, knowing how ill handling the Ford was, door-slammed Ron on the start and spun him out. yellow flag, they put Ron back to the front and left Williams in 2nd. give them another restart attempt and Williams gets into him again but doesn’t spin Ron this time. he does get himself enough of a jump that he’s got about half of his car in front of Ron by the end of the straight. which is right where he thinks he wants to be. by this time Ron has had enough of this crap and decides to drive Mike like Mike has been driving everybody else all night.
they bail off into the corner and Ron doesn’t back out and doesn’t really turn down. Williams gets turned across the nose of the Ford and Ron stands on the gas and drives Mike all the way through the corner and into the wall up in turn two.
while Mike is thrashing around madly trying to get out of his car Ron refires the Ford and starts backing up. about the time the Mike gets out of the car Ron rolls off, pulling into the field behind the pace truck while Mike starts chasing him. the announcer puts “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to” on the PA. Mike stops chasing Ron … until the field comes around again. then he’s shaking his fist and screaming and gesturing and Ron slows down to make sure he can get the full gist of what Mike is trying to tell him. seeing the car going slow, Mike starts chasing him. till he runs out of breath. which is about 50 feet.
we repeat this for 3 or 4 caution flag laps. then they finally get Mike’s car on the hook and he rides the wrecker off, breathing heavily.
after everyone had settled down they throw Ron off the track too. and great fun was had by all. especially when Ron won the Points championship that year.
i hear there’s also a time where Ron had a run in with a guy at Auburndale and the guy chased him all the way from the crash site, through the X, off the track and around the frontage road that goes by the lake ( the old traffic pattern in the A-dale pits was to turn right after you came off the track on the back stretch, go down to the tire shed and turn left and then use that little paved track to run down to the other end of the pits ) and all the way to the other end where Ron was parked. by the time they got to Ron’s trailer the other guy was so tuckered out he couldn’t talk.
wish i had been there for that. i’m sure there’s lots more.
i remember being in the pits at NSS one night in the early 80’s when a LM driver was sitting in his car and got clobbered from behind with a crow bar. i don’t remember the names of any of the parties involved though.