1951 Charlotte Speedway GN Film - Curtis Turner Winner, Lee Petty 2nd, Earl Moss Last

I suspect this has been posted previously, but I just found a short compilation of 8mm movie film shots from driver Lloyd Moore's collection posted on YouTube taken at the 3/4-mile Charlotte Speedway April 1, 1951 dirt track NASCAR Grand National race.

Winner Curtis Turner was driving Nash #41. Lee Petty was 2nd in #42, followed by Marshall Teague and Herb Thomas. Of particular interest to member Bobby Williamson might be Creedmoor, North Carolina's Earl Moss' 39th and last place finish in one of the handful of GN races he ran. Earl and car owner J.B. Watkins pocketed $10 and completed just 3 laps in the 1950 Ford #110.

Turns out there are numerous clips of 1951 NASCAR Grand National races from the Lloyd Moore collection posted on YouTube. Simply go to YouTube and type in 1951 NASCAR. Grand Rapids, Dayton, etc. - take your pick.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1951+nascar&oq=1951+nascar&gs_l=youtube.3..0.1864.4493.0.7299.11.9.0.2.2.0.237.1231.2j6j1.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.nLYTC7BRVcM

That is quite a treat to see that! Now I'm headed to the YouTube. Thanks, Dave. I'll be up all night.

Today - April 1, 2015 - is the anniversary of Curtis Turner's win at the 3/4 mile Charlotte track in 1951.

Promo ad for the race from The Dispatch

Race program from N.B. Arnold's photos .

Bill Holland took a wild tumble in his #98 Hubert Westmoreland-owned Plymouth - presumably the same car Johnny Mantz drove to victory months about seven months earlier in the inaugural Southern 500.

Curtis Turner with his trophy after winning what turned out to be the only victory for the Nash car brand. - Getty Images

Brief wire copy race report

Finishing order

Interesting that the ad has no mention of NASCAR - just the tag line "Under the Personal Direction of Bill France." Big Bill was not lacking in the ego department.

A bit hard to see in the ad, but the "NASCAR Sanctioned" tag is there - though it is greatly muted as compared to the promoter's name.

Ha... if it were a snake it would have bit me! Thanks.

Maybe that oversized "S" was some sort of visual snake metaphor.

Projecting forward, also may have been a placeholder for an oversized...

wins in a upside down bath tub

Weldon Adams of Augusta GA was 6th, will be inducted in to the AIRPS HOF Sept. 11, 015

LOL Chase