Quick. Hide the women and children, and slap a straitjacket on Randy LaJoie. Buckshot Jones might be headed back to the Busch Series.

After running the Snowball Derby in December, Jones is scheduled to make eight Hooters Cup races this season for DMT Motorsports owners David Bowen and Mike Phelps. It's not a full-fledged return to the sport, but there are plans for Jones to possibly enter a couple of Busch Series events later this year at New Hampshire and Bristol.

Somewhere, LaJoie just rammed his head against the wall at the mere mention of his former nemesis making even the most limited of returns. Here's a thought ... somebody ought to seriously consider putting LaJoie in a car for those races. The rest of us could just sit back and watch the fireworks.

Today, Jones is involved in residential land development in Atlanta and Greenville, S.C., and he maintains primary custody of his two sons -- Kolton, 5 and Levin, 4. It really wasn't all that long ago he came onto the NASCAR landscape. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Jones won races at Milwaukee and New Hampshire, and along the way, never backed down from another competitor. Ever.

Most notable among his scraps were a series of run-ins with two-time Busch Series champion LaJoie, circumstances that left in their wake a trail of mangled sheet metal, hefty fines and ill feelings. Their feud began during a 1997 event at Talladega, and then continued with a memorable incident at Bristol in which Jones rammed LaJoie's machine under caution. The next year at Nazareth, LaJoie's car was left in a heap following contact with Jones just five laps into the race.

Their confrontations were truly a sight to behold, and almost always resulted in comments that were, well ... interesting. When Jones and LaJoie started talking about each other, any kind of politically correct filtering went out the window.

Take, for instance, this exchange following their tangle at Nazareth:

"The kid's got the best race cars out there, and he can't drive a lick," said a seething LaJoie at the time. "I feel sorry for his race team because if they had a racecar driver in that car, it'd be hard to beat. It's just pitiful that we have to race against somebody with such good equipment [and] such little talent.

"I never had a feud. I just don't talk to him, I don't like him and he keeps running into me. I ain't done nothing to that idiot for a year and a half."

If LaJoie wasn't exactly at a loss for words, neither was Jones. In no uncertain -- and very colorful -- terms, Jones denied that he'd done anything intentionally.

"I wish that sure as hell wouldn't have happened," Jones began. "I don't need no s***, no feud started back between us. If I was in his shoes, hell, I'd probably be a little angry right now. The same thing's happened before with me and him, and I think he knows I don't want to start no s***. I don't want to get no s*** started."

These days, Jones says that he's past anything that might've happened between himself and LaJoie.

"You look back at it now, and it's just something that happened in racing," Jones said. "I think those things wouldn't happen today. Safety is the most important thing, and after seeing some of those guys get hurt bad and even killed, you think twice about things you do.

"We ended it. We settled it. I called him on the phone, and we just agreed if we raced against each other, we'd give each other a lot of room. This was getting to be stupid, tearing up these racecars."

Jones' one and only full-time Cup ride with Petty Enterprises was a disappointment to be sure, with two 16th-place finishes his best efforts. The team also failed to qualify for six events. After just a handful of Cup and Busch events between 2002-2004, Jones left the sport due to "a family matter."

Most of Jones' NASCAR starts came with teams fielded by his father, Billy, a successful Atlanta businessman. His relationship with Billy and the rest of his family has always been a close one, so while establishing himself in the business world has been crucial to Jones the last few years, his bond with Kolton and Levin is even more important.

"Words really can't describe [being a father]," Jones began. "I'm not one that can stomach things like watching surgery stuff on TV, but watching my son being born is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. Everything you do is revolved around them. Watching them grow up, watching them see things for the first time, do things for the first time, I'm having just as good a time as they are.

"I've seen another side of life besides racing. My family, we're just all so close. I can make a good living doing what I'm doing right now. I'm able to watch my boys play sports, and spend every day and the weekends with them. That's something I wouldn't trade."