The late Holliday, who resided in Waddington, NY during his racing career, won his first race at Canton in 1952, was the point champion two years later, then moved into Floyd Geary's famed C-38 where he was nearly unbeatable at Fort Covington, Plattsburgh's Airborne Park and Lansdowne Park near Ottawa. Twice he went undefeated for the year at Ft. Covington and from 1956 to 1958 won nearly 100 features for a .750 batting average.
In 1956 Holliday turned fast time at the Langhorne, PA mile to claim the pole for the Race of Champions and by 1959 he'd moved up to NASCAR's Rochester/Fonda circuit, winning the first race he entered at Rochester's Monroe Co. Fairgrounds and claiming eight Fonda features in a two year span when the Track of Champions was truly that. He then shocked the racing world by retiring in 1961 but after establishing a family and a business, he returned to the racing wars in 1969, winning regularly at
Evans Mills, Fulton and Ottawa's Capital City Speedway before retiring again in 1974 shortly after his car owner was fatally injured in a pit incident at Capital City.
Amazingly, Holliday's Hall of Fame career came with the full use of only one eye, though one would never have known that by watching him race. "As far as I know, Buck had some vision in his bad eye but it was far from perfect" said life-long friend and fellow Hall of Fame driver Bill Wimble, a two-time NASCAR National Sportsman Champion. "He could see out of it but it was out of alignment with his good eye. Regardless, he was one great driver."
In 1956 Holliday turned fast time at the Langhorne, PA mile to claim the pole for the Race of Champions and by 1959 he'd moved up to NASCAR's Rochester/Fonda circuit, winning the first race he entered at Rochester's Monroe Co. Fairgrounds and claiming eight Fonda features in a two year span when the Track of Champions was truly that. He then shocked the racing world by retiring in 1961 but after establishing a family and a business, he returned to the racing wars in 1969, winning regularly at
Evans Mills, Fulton and Ottawa's Capital City Speedway before retiring again in 1974 shortly after his car owner was fatally injured in a pit incident at Capital City.
Amazingly, Holliday's Hall of Fame career came with the full use of only one eye, though one would never have known that by watching him race. "As far as I know, Buck had some vision in his bad eye but it was far from perfect" said life-long friend and fellow Hall of Fame driver Bill Wimble, a two-time NASCAR National Sportsman Champion. "He could see out of it but it was out of alignment with his good eye. Regardless, he was one great driver."
The late Holliday, who resided in Waddington, NY during his racing career, won his first race at Canton in 1952, was the point champion two years later, then moved into Floyd Geary's famed C-38 where he was nearly unbeatable at Fort Covington, Plattsburgh's Airborne Park and Lansdowne Park near Ottawa. Twice he went undefeated for the year at Ft. Covington and from 1956 to 1958 won nearly 100 features for a .750 batting average.
In 1956 Holliday turned fast time at the Langhorne, PA mile to claim the pole for the Race of Champions and by 1959 he'd moved up to NASCAR's Rochester/Fonda circuit, winning the first race he entered at Rochester's Monroe Co. Fairgrounds and claiming eight Fonda features in a two year span when the Track of Champions was truly that. He then shocked the racing world by retiring in 1961 but after establishing a family and a business, he returned to the racing wars in 1969, winning regularly at
Evans Mills, Fulton and Ottawa's Capital City Speedway before retiring again in 1974 shortly after his car owner was fatally injured in a pit incident at Capital City.
Amazingly, Holliday's Hall of Fame career came with the full use of only one eye, though one would never have known that by watching him race. "As far as I know, Buck had some vision in his bad eye but it was far from perfect" said life-long friend and fellow Hall of Fame driver Bill Wimble, a two-time NASCAR National Sportsman Champion. "He could see out of it but it was out of alignment with his good eye. Regardless, he was one great driver."
In 1956 Holliday turned fast time at the Langhorne, PA mile to claim the pole for the Race of Champions and by 1959 he'd moved up to NASCAR's Rochester/Fonda circuit, winning the first race he entered at Rochester's Monroe Co. Fairgrounds and claiming eight Fonda features in a two year span when the Track of Champions was truly that. He then shocked the racing world by retiring in 1961 but after establishing a family and a business, he returned to the racing wars in 1969, winning regularly at
Evans Mills, Fulton and Ottawa's Capital City Speedway before retiring again in 1974 shortly after his car owner was fatally injured in a pit incident at Capital City.
Amazingly, Holliday's Hall of Fame career came with the full use of only one eye, though one would never have known that by watching him race. "As far as I know, Buck had some vision in his bad eye but it was far from perfect" said life-long friend and fellow Hall of Fame driver Bill Wimble, a two-time NASCAR National Sportsman Champion. "He could see out of it but it was out of alignment with his good eye. Regardless, he was one great driver."
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