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Work Horses

Stock Car Racing History

You are so right Billy, Reid had that car for 5 or 6 years. Sure wish I had a picture of it in late model trim. I remember Mickey York told me he also worked with you and Tex and drove that Cougar some.

The hood and roof that is hanging at Memory Lane is from Reid's Mercury Cyclone that they ran in sportsman (now Nationwide) races at Daytona and Charlotte. There is another car with Grand National heritage, driven by Benny Parsons and the King. Cecil Gordon hung the Mercury sheet metal on it at DeWhitt's.

Work Horses

Stock Car Racing History

The other day William Horrell reminded me of some news clippings I have when he responded to the new Saturday Night Hero column with a comment about Tommy Bostick from Bennettsville, SC getting one of Ned Jarrett's 1964 Ford short track cars and running it. He did indeed, I believe he ran that car at least 2 years and won races at Rockingham, Sanford, Dillon and probably more.

The following is from an August 1965 edition of The Sandhill Independent.

And I think this is a picture from the race talked about in the above article.

Tommy won the first 5 late model features ran at Sanford Motor Speedway in 1965 with that car.

This made we wonder how many other cars became work horses on the short tracks after being retired from Grand National competition.

Anyone got any stories?

updated by @dennis-andrews: 08/05/18 06:09:30PM

Legends of Nascar Update

Stock Car Racing History

Roland,

Thanks for putting Jimmy Ingram on your Legends site. It is indeed guys like Jimmy that made Nascar what it is today. I ran across Jimmy's name when researching the old Rockingham Speedway dirt track, Not only did he own and operate the track at Cheraw but he raced and won at Rockingham. Also saw where he flagged at Wadesboro Speedway.

R.I.P. Danny Lee - Wilson, NC Competitor

General

RIP Danny.

Thoughts and prayers to family and friends.

Has Jennifer Jo Cobb Been Reading About Herb Thomas?

Stock Car Racing History

Did he send in Ron and Bobby from Lizard Lick?

Carl Edwards' Debris Field; Parts & Pieces in Stands? Where Was Hood Tether? 1st Daytona Duel

Current NASCAR

If I heard right in one report I saw this week it was stated that NASCAR supplies all the hoods and trunks and they are not metal.

Charlotte Goes No Smoking

Stock Car Racing History

If they can enforce a smoking ban at a race track then the fans have changed as more than Nascar. And if that is the case then racing will never again be what it once was, or our country for that matter.

1957 Southern 500 Trivia

Stock Car Racing History

I'll give the reporter that wrote the article the benefit of the doubt and say that he thought Joe Eubanks was going to start the '57 Southern 500. It did state there would be 5 after the '57 race, but it also said the retirement stuck.

Fact is, as y'all have recorded, there were 5 who had run in every 500 from 1950 up and including the 1857 edition. They were: Lee Petty, Curtis Turner, Buck Baker, Fireball Roberts and Jim Paschal.

I would love to here a story on Herb's car being snatched off the line in 1950.

Hope y'all enjoyed this trivia trip ino racing history.

1957 Southern 500 Trivia

Stock Car Racing History

1957 Southern 500 Trivia

Stock Car Racing History

Bill, the prize is being FIRST! LOL

And you have made me realize I was not as detailed as I should have been. I got the idea from a news clipping so went back and read it again. What I'm really looking for are the 6 men who started the first and each succeeding until the 1957Southern 500. I was trying to say it in as few a works as possible but left out some important ones.