A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch, which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.
There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.
