After several hours of working over the history of the Southern 500 from 1950 through 1983, I have decided to feature the following events in the daily History Minutes. I stopped at 1983 as that was the last race run on Labor Day. Races run on the Sunday before Labor Day had some interesting outcomes, but, for my purposes, I stopped with 1983. So, here is what you will read in the coming week.
September 1st will feature the 1975 Southern 500
September 2nd will feature the 1957 Southern 500
September 3rd will feature the 1962 Southern 500
September 4th will feature the 1950 Southern 500, The First One
September 5th will feature the 1960 Southern 500
September 6th will feature the 1965 Southern 500
September 7th will feature the 1964 Southern 500
I am assuming that TMC Chase will add a special report on the 1967 Southern 500 which was won by Richard Petty and was the only 500 since 1957 I didn't attend because the U.S. Navy decided I was needed in Puerto Rico at the time. Bad part was I didn't know until 5 days later that Richard had won it.
So, folks, put out your scrapbooks and fine tune your memory banks to add to what I put here. There will be a lot of my personal memories on all the races but the 1950 race which I did not attend as I was only 3 years old then. Even though I initially tried to keep personal memories out of the History Minutes, I finally gave in an went with them. My life is so entwined with the races I can't read about one I went to without some personal memory coming in. Hope you enjoy it.
Honor the past, embrace the present, dream for the future.
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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.
updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
