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updated by @jim-streeter: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
Great read Jim! Thanks for posting this.
I've often told the story of how my Mother would tell me, every Sunday morning in the 50s when we were getting ready for church, "Don't tell people that you go to stock car races". It was her brother taking me to Columbia Speedway every Thursday and often to races on Friday and Saturday Nights. Then Darlington started for me in 1957. Oh, my poor Mother, a Southern Belle if ever there were one!! When she met Richard Petty in 1963, he charmed her into coming to the Columbia Speedway race that night. He won and she was hooked, as was my Dad, for the rest of their lives. Our family made many wonderful memories at tracks around the South.
Thanks, again, Jim. Awesome to have this added to the site.
