Sandy Reed
{{Short description|American sports announcer (died 2004)}}
Sandy Reed ({{Circa|1921}} – February 7, 2004){{r|"Kennedy 2004"}} was a track announcer with Ascot Park in Gardena, California, and the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.{{r|"latimes 2004"}} He was in several movies, including Richard Rush's 1967 film Thunder Alley,{{r|"Nowlan Nowlan 2013"}} the 1968 Elvis Presley film Speedway,{{r|"McLafferty 1989"}} and Fireball 500.{{r|"mercurynews.com 2013"}} He narrated an LP record that used audio clips, as well as interviews, to highlight the then-ascendant career of Riverside's home-track favorite, Dan Gurney.{{r|"Road & Track 1965"}}
References
{{Reflist|refs=
| last = Kennedy
| first = Tim
| title = Racing Scene
| website = SCRAFAN.COM
| year = 2004
| url = http://www.scrafan.com/column/tim/2004/0318sprints.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050223151536/http://www.scrafan.com/column/tim/2004/0318sprints.html
| archive-date = February 23, 2005
| url-status = live
| access-date = June 17, 2018
| quote = About 70-80 persons, including fellow track announcer Bruce Flanders and track photographer Earl Scruggs, attended the 11:00 a.m March 6 memorial service at a church in Pasadena for long-time Ascot track announcer Sandy Reed, 83. The popular voice at race-tracks and in many racing movies passed away February 7 from a massive stroke in an Arcadia hospital. Sandy's second wife, Suzy, was the widow of Sandy's fellow track announcer Scooter McLean at Riverside International Raceway for many years.
}}
| title = Toyota Is New Kid on NASCAR Block
| website = latimes
| date = February 13, 2004
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-13-sp-motors13-story.html
| access-date = June 17, 2018
}}
| last = McLafferty
| first = G.
| title = Elvis Presley in Hollywood: celluloid sell-out
| publisher = Hale
| year = 1989
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=530dAQAAIAAJ
| access-date = June 17, 2018
| page = 229
}}
| title = Saratoga: Wine tasting gets personal with Reed pouring – The Mercury News
| website = mercurynews.com
| date = July 8, 2013
| url = https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/07/08/saratoga-wine-tasting-gets-personal-with-reed-pouring/
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170504185856/https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/07/08/saratoga-wine-tasting-gets-personal-with-reed-pouring/
| archive-date = May 4, 2017
| url-status = unfit
| access-date = June 17, 2018
}}
| last1 = Nowlan
| first1 = R.A.
| last2 = Nowlan
| first2 = G.W.
| title = Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed
| publisher = McFarland
| series = Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed
| issue = v. 1
| year = 2013
| isbn = 978-0-7864-7406-6
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X5g-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33
| access-date = June 17, 2018
| page = 33
}}
| title = Road & Track
| publisher = CBS Publications
| issue = v. 17
| year = 1965
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xltWAAAAMAAJ
| access-date = June 17, 2018
| page = 74
| quote = Using a combination of narrative by Sandy Reed, plus Dan's own comments, this record is essentially a brief biography of Dan Gurney on record rather than the printed page. Sounds of some of the races in which Dan has competed
}}
}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0715681}}
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