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4 unusual facts about Wendell Scott


Wendell Scott

Scott is prominently featured in the 1975 book The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book, written by Jerry Bledsoe.

Mojo Nixon, a fellow Danville native, wrote a tribute song titled "The Ballad of Wendell Scott", which appears on Nixon and Skid Roper's 1986 album, Frenzy.

The film Greased Lightning, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, was loosely based on Scott's biography.

Filmmaker John W. Warner directed a documentary about Scott, titled The Wendell Scott Story, released in 2003 with narration by the filmmaker's father, former U.S. Senator John Warner.



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