Many have seen photos posted on this site of the beautiful #21 candy apple red 1937 Ford coupe modified owned by the Wood Brothers and built for Sonny Hutchins of Richmond to drive in the mid-late 60s.
I was fortunate to see Sonny in the Wood Brothers modified at at both Martinsville, where he won and at Richmond's Southside Speedway where the fuel injected 427 Ford powerplant had Sonny spinning wheels all the way down the straights on the little third-mile oval.
I just stumbled across some black & white news film from the University of Virginia Library collection of Roanoke, Virginia television station WSLS. It shows Sonny winning in the beautiful, potent and sweet Wood brothers ride at Virginia's Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, April 22, 1967 in the NASCAR National Championship Modified event the day prior to the Virginia 500 Grand National race.
The film opens with the race start, showing Sonny on the pole in the Wood Brothers ride, flanked on the outside pole by fellow Richmond competitor, Ray Hendrick - the all-time Martinsville winner with 20 - driving the Jack Tant / Clayton Mitchell "Flying #11" Chevy coupe.
Click on the link below to see the brief rare footage of the bespeckled Richmond restaurant operator driving the Woods' beautiful open wheel ride to victory:
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2218226
Thank you, National Endowment for the Humanitie s for providing the funding to preserve and digitize this rare look at two of Richmond's famed "4-H Boys."
Here's also a brief sportscaster copy sheet:
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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
