It is with deep regret and sadness that I must inform you all
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and to think fireball 500 was worse. Robert Staley said:
Harvey Tollison said:Too bad we can't find a copy of Tiny Lund Hard Charger
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and to think fireball 500 was worse. Robert Staley said:
It is with deep regret and sadness that I must inform you all
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Harvey Tollison said:
Too bad we can't find a copy of Tiny Lund Hard Charger
CONGRATS TO GEOFF
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way to go USA bobsled team. gold for vour boys and a great triumph for geoff bodine who was hardly mentioned (if at all) by NBC. if not for the efforts of mr. bodine , there would be no gold medal.
updated by @robert-staley: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
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I don't know about that. She didn't have a cheetah with her in 63. Junior Johnson won the race.
Jayne Mansfield
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Didn't know she came to Hillsboro in 1960. I saw her there in 1963..my first race.
updated by @robert-staley: 12/03/16 05:48:03PM
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My first memory of being interested came in 1962 when I was eight. My family was watching the tape delay coverage of the Southern 500 on Wide World of Sports. The race had been run a week or so earlier but I didn't know that. Richard Petty was leading when he cut down a tire with a couple of laps to go. Petty tried to win the race on three tires, but failed.A few months later during the 1963 season, my dad took me to Hillsboro, N.C. for a Grand National race. That was my first race in person. Among the drivers entered were Junior Johnson, Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett, Nelson Stacy, Jim Paschal, Buck Baker,Bobby Isaac, and Joe Weatherly.I saw the final victory by each of the following... Weatherly 1963 at Hillsboro, Baker 1964 at Darlington, and Cale Yarborough 1985 at Charlotte. I saw Petty's 100th win at Bowman Gray Stadium.Best race that I've seen? Probably the 1980 World 600 where Benny Parsons and Darrell Waltrip swapped the lead multiple times over the last 25 laps. The entire race was good as the boxy Monte Carlos and T-Birds drafted well. Hard to believe it's been that long ago.