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The last sentence statement by Chrysler Performance Manager, Robert Rodger in this 1969 story has never been more true than in in the past decade of NASCAR's history:
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October 28, 1962: Rex White Wins For Final Time
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From the Faron Young Story Newsletter in 2006, here's why Faron was in victory lane with Rex White at Atlanta:
Faron headlined Atlanta Raceway's first Grand Ole Opry All-Star Jamboree on October 27, 1962. The 3-hour package show saluted the next day's Dixie 400 national championship stockcar race. Earlier in the same racing season, Faron played a show at the Bristol Raceway in Tennessee, with Patsy Cline as one of the performers and Ralph Emery as the announcer. Faron wanted to drive around the track to experience its high bank. Ralph later reminded Faron of the incident, saying "You jumped in a car and ran it around the track, and they got really upset with you, because they were afraid their insurance wouldn't cover you." Faron responded, "I was doin' a hundred miles an hour in a Hertz rent-a-car around and round that track. They was chasin' me with a jeep. Hell, they'd a never caught me." He had invited Cootie Hunley to go with him. "I had the seat in one hand and the ceiling in the other," Cootie told me in a telephone interview. "And he went around that damn thing, and they chased him in the company jeep. And I want to tell you, those banked curves are steep. When he pulled up in front of the grandstand, he jumped out and put his hand up like, yaaay, I won."
October 28, 1962: Rex White Wins For Final Time
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My wife used to hang out some with Faron Young and friends back in the day. Says you can't repeat much of what he had to say!
A quick side note... you'll have Virginia race fans up in arms talking about the non-rescheduled race at Hampton. Hampton is home of Langley Field Speedway, but the South Boston Speedway is in.... South Boston, Virginia!
I know you know that and I am just jerking your chain over the minor mishap!
RacersReunion / Racestoppers Membership has Doubled
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Super! Can't ever have too many smart & attractive ladies!
October 28, 1961: The other South Carolina race
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From the ARCA web site:
New Places, New Faces
With a schedule of 34 races, Midwest Association for Race Cars (MARC) continued to spread to new tracks, branching into 12 states in 1962. NASCAR legend Curtis Turner won his second MARC victory in the series' first race at Columbia Speedway in Columbia, S.C. Another notable win included Dick Hutcherson, co-founder of Hutcherson-Pagan Racing MARC event at Texas' Austin Speedway. Iggy Katona continued to dominate the series, winning seven races, as he claimed his fourth championship.
October 28, 1961: The other South Carolina race
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I suspect you're right about Curtis purposely scheduling that MARC race against the NASCAR race in Greenville, SC. The October 29, 1961 event was part of the 1962 MARC points schedule and Curtis did exactly the same thing on April Fool's Day, 1962, promoting a MARC race at the Virginia International Raceway road course near Danville head to head against the NASCAR Grand National race in Richmond.
( TOLEDO, Ohio - March 27, 2011) - The late Curtis Turner made headlines "This Week in ARCA" on April 1, 1962 when the Floyd, Virginia racer drove his Ford to victory lane in the 250-mile event on the Virginia International Raceway road course in Danville, Virginia, thus adding his name to the illustrious list of ARCA Racing Series road course winners.
Turner joined Fred Lorenzen, Nelson Stacy, Jack Bowsher, Bob Schacht, Elmer Musgrave, Ken Schrader, Darrell Waltrip and Justin Allgaier as some of ARCA's road course winners. Turner also won ARCA Racing Series events at Columbia Speedway (Columbia, S.C.) in 1961 and the first ever ARCA race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in October of 1964. Sadly, Turner died in a plane crash near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1970 when the single-engine Aero-Commander 500 plane he was piloting crashed shortly after take-off from Dubois-Jefferson Airport en route to Roanoke, Virginia. Clarence King also died in the crash.
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1962 MARC Season
| Date | Event | Cars | Winner | Make | Track/Location | Average Speed | Cautions |
| 10-08-61 | MARC-01 | Ken Reeder | Dodge | Cloverleaf Speedway | |||
| 10-15-61 | Harold Smith | Chevrolet | Baer Field Raceway | ||||
| 10-22-61 | MARC-03 | Harold Smith | Chevrolet | Lakewood Speedway | |||
| 10-28-61 | Curtis Turner | Ford | Columbia Speedway | ||||
| 11-05-61 | MARC-05 | Ernie Derr | Pontiac | Birmingham Speedway | |||
| 3-4 | MARC-06 | Ernie Derr | Pontiac | Lakewood Speedway | |||
| 3-16 | Dick Hutcherson | Ford | Austin Speedway | ||||
| 3-18 | MARC-08 | Ernie Derr | Pontiac | Meyers Speedway | |||
| 3-23 | MARC-09 | 17 | Dick Freeman | Ford | Montgomery Fairgrounds Speedway | ||
| 4-1 | American Road 250 | 18 | Curtis Turner | Ford | Virginia Int'l Raceway | 1 for ? laps | |
| 4-7 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Rock Hill Speedway | ||||
| 4-15 | MARC-12 | 20 | Roy Wathen | Ford | Fairgrounds Motor Speedway | ||
| 4-21 | MARC-13 | Dick Freeman | Chevrolet | Canfield Speedway | |||
| 4-29 | MARC-14 | Curtis Turner | Ford | Lakewood Speedway | |||
| 5-6 | Dick Freeman | Ford | Toledo Raceway Park | ||||
| 5-13 | MARC-16 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Heidelberg Speedway | |||
| 5-27 | MARC-17 | 19 | Jesse Baird | Pontiac | Fairgrounds Motor Speedway | ||
| 5-30 | MARC-18 | Harold Smith | Chevrolet | Canfield Speedway | |||
| 6-3 | MARC-19 | Bobby Watson | Ford | Salem Speedway | |||
| 6-10 | Dick Freeman | Ford | Dayton Speedway | ||||
| 6-17 | Harold Smith | Chevrolet | Nashville Fairgrounds | ||||
| 6-23 | Dick Freeman | Ford | Cloverleaf Speedway | ||||
| 6-24 | MARC-23 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Heidelberg Speedway | |||
| 6-29 | MARC-24 | Harold Smith | Ford | Berlin Raceway | |||
| 6-30 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Mt Clements Racetrack | ||||
| 7-14 | Metropolitan 200 | Jack Shanklin | Ford | Dayton Speedway | 82.338 mph | ||
| 7-28 | Paul Parks | Ford | Cloverleaf Speedway | ||||
| 8-4 | MARC-28 | Paul Parks | Ford | Toledo Speedway | |||
| 8-5 | Paul Parks | Ford | Lancaster Speedway | ||||
| 8-12 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Dayton Speedway | ||||
| 8-19 | Harold Smith | Chevrolet | Fairgrounds Motor Speedway | ||||
| 8-26 | Dick Freeman | Ford | Salem Speedway | ||||
| 9-2 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Michigan State Fairgrounds | ||||
| 9-16 | Iggy Katona | Ford | Dayton Speedw |
Racing History Minute - October 28, 1961
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Maybe we don't give the Pettys enough credit for "Engineering" all those number changes to accumulate points and have Richard in the best ride.
Oct 27, 1973: The IROC series debuts
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One of the darndest displays of money grubbing I ever witnessed in my years around stock car racing took place at the concluding IROC event of the 4-race 1984 season. The date was August 11, 1984 at Michigan.
I had a pass to be on top of one of the infield pit road suite viewing platforms. I was with 7-Eleven at the time and I think it was a Coca-Cola suite, one of our big suppliers. Cale Yarborough, whose Cup car was sponsored by Hardee's had a big associate sponsorship from Coke at the time.
Cale was leading the series that year after 3 races and the championship would pay $150,000. Cale's wife, Betty Jo was on the same viewing platform within earshot.
Cale led most of the race with Neil Bonnett tucked on his back bumper. Neil made a move for the lead coming out of turn 2 on the final lap and they ran a heck of a side-by-side duel down the backstretch. Neil finally completed his pass coming out of turn four to win the race.
Although Cale had just earned $150,000 for clinching the 1984 IROC championship, Betty Jo was screaming at the top of her lungs that Neil had "cost them" another Hardee's franchise. Cale was always famous as a car owner for being a stingy tightwad, but I guess it ran in the whole family. It was a shameless display of greed.
And Duck Boy's Point Was...????
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I awakened on the den couch in the wee hours earlier this week to the sound of a familiar voice. When I retrieved my glasses from the coffee table, I saw NASCAR driver, Carl Edwards on the screen. He was a guest of host Craig Ferguson on CBS Television's Late Late Show.
The portion of the interview I saw was one of the strangest I've ever seen a NASCAR driver do and I wondered where Carl's head was or what he'd been smoking. I'm still not sure what he was attempting.
I looked to see if I could find the interview and there are about a gazillion copies on YouTube posted by many othere who I guess found it strange, also. The show I saw this past week was actually a rerun of Carl's September 24, 2013 appearance.
Please tell me if it's just me thinking this was a peculiar bit of television:
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM