Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petty, now 59, watches as his son Richard, 35, helps load one of their gleaming, newly handcrafted Dodges onto a trailer truck at their 60-acre Level Cross spread. Richard is heading for a Grand National race in North Wilkesboro, N.C. Following in his father's slipstream, he is a fireballing folk hero, the center of attention at the North Wilkesboro track. Inevitably, doting fans who have driven their pickup trucks and campers hundreds of miles to see Petty race, ask him which of his many records−750 victories over 15 years, $1,411,788 in prize money...
...Dayton?" calls a driver from the cab of his camper. His buddy pauses before slamming shut the tailgate of his trailer. "Nope," he drawls. "I'm gonna take a breather. See you in Memphis...
...major enterprises are already flourishing. One is a moving company headed by Pete Diaz, 29, who grew up in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem and began mainlining heroin at eleven. He learned to drive a tractor-trailer rig when he was twelve, and served five years for armed robbery before he turned 21. At first, Diaz says, "four of us rented trucks from Hertz and moved our friends. Now we've built up to twelve people, the family owns a van, and we cover any job within 100 miles." An equally succcessful member is Andy Nikolatos, 23, who comes...
...their mobile homes. By contrast, mobile-home pads at most other comfortable parks, including Carlsberg's, rent for $45 to $95 monthly. But the young builder senses that, increasingly, elaborate facilities are where the money is parked. "We are appealing to an entirely different person than the old trailer park did," he says. "We want people who can afford more, people who go into a park for its social orientation...
...eight policemen, normally preoccupied with nothing more serious than ski-equipment thefts (the biggest crime category), struggle with monumental parking jams. There is also a shortage of moderate-income housing for Vail's 2,000 ski instructors, waiters and salespeople, many of whom live in a trailer camp a dozen miles away. The town manager, Terrell Minger, 30, cannot afford to buy a place in Vail on his $21,000 salary...