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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
12/18/12 12:05:04PM
9,138 posts

Ending the Year on a High Note !
Stock Car Racing History

That's great, LaVerne! Well deserved by all the hard working folks involved with the Group.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
12/16/12 03:39:26PM
9,138 posts

An Important Annoucement...For Anyone Interested In Safe, High Performance Driving....."NOW - I will teach you to DRIVE SAFELY up to 150 mile per hour" - Curtis Turner.
Stock Car Racing History

And from the 1968 Sports Illustrated cover story on Curtis:

The National School of Safe High Performance DrivingCurtis Turner, directoris a natural outgrowth of Turner's racing involvement and interest in business. A week's course costs $500. Located at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, the school is designed for anybody whose job demands fast driving, like ambulance drivers and Turner's old friends, the police, prospective race drivers or just anybody who wants to learn how to handle a car at turnpike speeds or above and, in emergencies, spin a car with control and dexterity. The school is also a typical Turner venture, boldly begun, a money-loser now but with excellent prospects of being a success. A second school has opened at Phoenix, and a third is planned for Oklahoma City.

Turner's reason for the school is simple enough. "It's something I've always wanted to do," he said. "I just got an idea for it one day, and here it is."

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
12/16/12 10:48:43AM
9,138 posts

Ranking the Best Dirt Racers in History
Stock Car Racing History

Since it appears we didn't restrict our listing to stock cars, I want to make two additions:

* TED HORN - Magnificent driving talent who won multiple AAA driving titles racing primarily on dirt. A sentimental favorite for me because he won the very first event at the Richmond Fairgrounds 1/2-mile dirt in 1946. Killed at the DuQuoin Mile.

* TOMMY HINNERSHITZ - Known as the "Oley Dirt Farmer" - this late Pennsylvania sprint car driver is in all the halls of fame acknowledging the exploits of dirt sprinters and won more races than anyone will ever know.

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
12/16/12 03:58:48PM
9,138 posts

BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU LEAVE THE EXTRA LEAF FOR THE DINING ROOM TABLE OVER THE HOLIDAYS
Current NASCAR

By the way, the "Trophy Girl" at Sebring in this video was the former Carol Lynn Blum of Ft. Lauderdale - Miss Florida of 1965. She went on to become a Doctor of Psychology in New York - probably worthy of Jim Wilmore's trophy girl post!

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