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Good to hear of your travels, Jimmy.
Hope you may get to eat at the Sanitary while in Morehead City. One of my favorites.
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Racing History Minute - November 6, 1955
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RR member, Jim Streeter made this post below about the 9th place finisher in this 1955 Fayetteville Short Track / New Car Division race back in 2011 responding to Dennis Andrews' post about the division:
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I remember a friend of mine Bud Guisleman (sp) competed for 3 or 4 years with an old convertable division car that he welded a hardtop on it.
Most of the tracks were 1/4 or 1/3 mile tracks.
Sorry I can't be of any more help.
Most of these drivers are dead now.
Racing History Minute - November 6, 1955
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And, Dennis also had this great story about the pig in his original Champion Speedway post:
Racing History Minute - November 6, 1955
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Great stuff here from all of you guys. First time I've ever seen the photo of the pig.
1978 Dixie 500: King, Donnie, King, Donnie - Confusion reigneth!
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Ironically, 1978 was the last year the L.G. DeWitt team won a race, as mentioned in the 1980 AP story below carried in the Daytona paper:
1978 Dixie 500: King, Donnie, King, Donnie - Confusion reigneth!
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Chase, I'd be interested, too, to see if Cody Dinsmore, Jay Coker, or any other student of the Elliott dynasty can shed some light on the Bill Elliott / Geogre Elliott Oldsmobile entry for the 1978 Dixie 500.
Racing History Minute - November 5, 1967
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Also, not every year that Asheville-Weaverville could boast an "International" field. This event had two Canadians - Don Biederman of Port Credit, Ontario and Frog Fagan of Willowdale, Ontario. Ocassionally saw Frog's widow when she visited with her children at a former business partner's home on Lake Wylie near where she was living.
| Birth: | Mar. 11, 1940 Willowdale Ontario, Canada |
| Death: | Aug. 6, 1993 Charlotte Mecklenburg County North Carolina, USA |
 NOTED RACE CAR BUILDER HAROLD FROG' FAGAN DIES: -August 8, 1993For 32 years, Harold P. ''Frog'' Fagan loved race cars and he built some of the fastest, the sleekest and the best. Just ask NASCAR drivers Darrell Waltrip, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough and Bobby and Donnie Allison, who drove them. Mr. Fagan died Friday, Aug. 6, 1993, at Carolinas Medical Center of cancer. He was 52. ''He loved his cars,'' said Denise Reynolds-Fagan, his wife of nearly 18 years. ''He was known for having meticulous, exceptionally well-built cars. He was always very innovative in design and fabrication.'' He once sent his wife to Kmart to buy pie pans that he used to redesign headlight covers on a car body he was building. At Daytona, NASCAR inspectors told him one of his body designs was too far advanced. ''This is NASCAR, they told him, not NASA-CAR,'' she said. Wearing a headphone set, the stocky Mr. Fagan was a familiar sight in pits from Pocono to Darlington to Riverside to Charlotte. As a Winston Cup crew chief, he would listen to the driver describe how the car was handling, then advise him what do to and when to pit for gas and tires. He knew that a fraction of a second could win or lose a race. He once changed a tire in 13 seconds flat. A Toronto native, he was tagged ''Frog'' in the 1960s by an acquaintance who thought all Canadians were of French descent. The slang nickname for Frenchmen stuck. Funeral is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Williams-Dearborn Funeral Home, with burial in Forest Lawn East, both in Matthews. Visitation is 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Survivors are his wife, Denise; daughters, Kirsten Fagan, Lindsay Fagan, Tiffany Fagan; mother, Mrs. Yvonne DePew of Toronto; brother, Alan Fagan of Toronto. Memorials may be made to Winston Cup Racing Wives Auxiliary, P.O. Box 15123, Charlotte, N.C. 28211. | |
| Burial: Forest Lawn East Cemetery Weddington Union County North Carolina, USA | |
Racing History Minute - November 5, 1967
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I didn't realize until Russ posted the photo above that Bosco Lowe had ever driven for the "Speed Costs Money... How Fast Do You Want to Go?" team, but I see he actually made a total of 3 career starts for his neighbor in 1967 and 1968.
The current top six drivers in the 2013 NASCAR Cup standings are named Jimmie, Matt, Kevin, Kyle, Dale and Jeff. Don't those names sound pedestrian when you look at the names and nicknames of the drivers and owners represented in Russ' photo above?
Between those 4 cars, we have a Frog, a Big John, an L.G., a Bosco, a Banjo, a LeeRoy and a Junior. My, how things have changed in NASCAR.
Racing History Minute - November 5, 1967
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Sure looks to me, too, like Bobby is standing in front of the same G.C. Spencer #49 I shot at Bristol in March 1967 - the now very faded photo you posted.