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

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{{cite web

| 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.

}}

{{cite web

| 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

}}

{{cite book

| 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

}}

{{cite web

| 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

}}

{{cite book

| 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

}}

{{cite book

| 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

}}

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