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By Cody Dinsmore
Back in the mid 1920’s, a boy named Jimmy Mosteller was born in the rural part of Roswell, Georgia. He grew up around a farming community, where your friends and neighbors always were willing to help if needed and could be...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of J.D.'s death and there is no better day than today to share this with you. This was originally written in November of 2004, but things down Memory Lane don't change much with time. As you...
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Remember When
By-Cody Dinsmore
Remember when -- when racing was considered a sport only for the ones with the most guts and adrenaline? Even though some women raced, it was known as a “Man’s Sport”. Back when racers were the toughest, built from...
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The Night the King Came of Age
By-Jeff Gilder
It was a hot July night in 1958, the 12th to be exact, and the NASCAR boys were at Columbia Speedway on the half-mile dirt track out on highway 321 in Cayce, SC. The Grand National cars had been...
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Raymond Parks, The Godfather of Southern Auto Racing
By: Cody Dinsmore
Born a simple farmer on June 5th, 1914 in rural Dawson County, Georgia was Raymond Parks. He was the first of his family’s 16 children. His father Alfred and mother Leila were...
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Finally! I finally was able to turn some laps in that beautiful 1937 Chevy #46 Vintage modified owned by Bruce James Racing. The weather Saturday night was absolutely perfect and we had a respectable field of cars. Going in to a turn on a dirt...
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By: Brandon Reed
A lot of discussion have been held over the years about exactly how important Georgia drivers were to the first year of NASCAR. This week, we take a look at that top over at Georgia Racing History.com.
What if I told you...
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Racing Again
Hey folks! Thought I would “blog” a little about my recent opportunity to get back into a race car. To bring y’all up to date, I haven’t been in a race car since late 2001. My racing life was spent on the Friday nights, Saturday...
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COLUMN By LARRY HICKS The York Dispatch
Updated: 06/16/2011 07:23:06 AM EDT
People read the sports pages for a lot of different reasons.
Most are gym rats, former gym rats or wannabe gym rats who played sports in their younger days, still play...
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June 8, 2011
YORK, PA – On the second full weekend of July every year the pilgrimage of motorheads from all over our vast country begins toward York, Pennsylvania. They remember York not as the first capital of the United States but for the...
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