Racing History Minute - June 19, 1949
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Interesting to read of the exhibition race in Florida. Thanks for another enlightening history lesson.
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Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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In the Adcox-Kirby livery at Daytona in 1974 as posted at the Find a Grave Memorial site:
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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From the August 4, 2006 Bangor Daily News:
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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And most often emblazonned with the hometown Adcox-Kirby Chevrolet on the quarter panels.
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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Yep, sounds just like a John Grisham novel, doesn't it? Thanks for the history lesson.
One summer race at Nashville between 1981-83 when we had the Earnhardt/Wrangler car, Gary Baker put down asphalt in an extended garage parking area in the Nashville infield. Worked fine early in the morning. Sometime after the noon hour of a hot July Nashville summer afternoon, everybody's jack stands started sinking and disappearing into that brand new asphalt, leaving the tires of the cars just about touching the ground again!
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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Ironically, the call letters WLAC were first assigned in 1922 to the student operated station at North Carolina State University in Raleigh - the second radio station in the state of North Carolina, but that station went off the air due to financial problems in 1923 and the letters went then to the Nashville group, which went on the air three years later in 1926.
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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Cody, more good stuff. I'm guessing your first pic - the black & white one - is from Nashville Fairgrounds, not Boyd's, judging by the WLAC Radio billboard. WLAC is an AM station in Nashville.
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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Good stuff Chase & Cody... thanksl.
Before Chattanooga Chew, David Pearson and Others Raced at Chattanooga's Boyd's Speedway
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I have a former RIR secretary, Marsha Weiss, living in Chattanooga. Her husband is with Allied Chemical and was a liaison with the Georgia carpet mills.