The Los Angeles Times 500 Ontario Motor Speedway - November 19, 1978
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Found one more in color.
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Bobby Rahal's Only Cup Start as Sponsored Teammate to Derrike Cope & Kyle Petty - November 18, 1984
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I remember him - that famous southern stock car driver Bobby Ray Hall.
Racing History Minute - November 17, 1963
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Found the entry list for this race.
Racing History Minute - November 17, 1963
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The race got front page coverage from Chris that week.
Racing History Minute - November 11, 1951
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This was a significant race for a couple of Nashville drivers. Bob Reuther made his first of three "Cup" starts driving for owner Truthful Kelley. He loved talking about that race.
Bob went on to be a successful driver racing all over the southeast. He set the qualifying record for the Modified-Sportsman division on the beach at Daytona in 1957. qualifying at just over 150 mph. That was almost 15 mph faster than the second fastest qualifier Tim Flock!
Bob and the crew pose with the trophy for winning the pole:
Bob also was the first champion when the local weekly races moved to the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in 1958.
He remained involved in racing after his retirement from the cockpit, becoming the pilot for Bobby Hamilton when Bobby started running the Cup series.
Pete Page must have recovered from the accident. Although Lakewood was his only GN start he continued racing around the Nashville area until the middle sixties. In 1965 he tried his hand at track management as he became partners with country singer Faron Young as they converted the old Nashville baseball park Sulpher Dell into a race track.
Here is Pete with one of his cars in the middle fifties:
And this last one is ironically a photo that ran in the Tennessean in the summer of 1964 promoting the Saturday night races at the Fairgrounds. Pete is signing an autograph for a young fan sitting on his fender. The fan happens to be me!
Sorry if I hijacked the topic but this race probably had the most significant Nashville connection until the GN cars started racing at the Fairgrounds in 1958.
1978 Dixie 500: King, Donnie, King, Donnie - Confusion reigneth!
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And two photos from the SCR story covering the race.
Coming to the checkered. Only it wasn't for the win as everyone thought.
1978 Dixie 500: King, Donnie, King, Donnie - Confusion reigneth!
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Looks to me like Bill Elliott is in a Benny Parsons / Dewitt Olds.
Also, since I've seen Chase use these in other stories and I have them, thought I'd add the ticket brochure and my well-worn race ticket. Not sure the reason for the poor condition of the ticket. I usually tried to keep them in good shape.
Racing History Minute - November 5, 1967
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Two more from SCR.
Note the Firestone decal and Goodyear tire:
Bosco Lowe leads Lee Roy Yarbrough around Harold Fagan and John Sears.
Racing History Minute - November 5, 1967
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Here's another one from that race.
