(2) different times, Richard Petty raced unpainted, unnumbered Plymouth race cars at Ashville-Weaverville Speedway - Weaverville, NC

Dennis  Garrett
@dennis-garrett
12 years ago
560 posts

(2) different times, Richard Petty raced unpainted, unnumbered Plymouth race cars at Ashville-Weaverville Speedway - Weaverville, NC
1st Time:
Grand National Race No.41
500 Laps at Ashville-Weaverville Speedway
Weaverville, NC
"Western North Carolina 500"
250 Miles on Half-mile Paved Track
August 11, 1963
1st Place - #28 Fred Lorenzen LaFayette '63 Ford
2nd Place - #43 Richard Petty Petty Engineering '63 Plymouth
Listed on Page 220 in Greg Fielden's Volume 2, Forty Years of Stock Car Racing - The Superspeedway Boom 1959-1964
Photo #1. Fred Lorenzen #28 leads an unpainted Plymouth driven by Richard Petty in Western North Carolina 500

2nd Time:
Grand National Race No.37
500 Laps at Ashville-Weaverville Speedway
Weaverville, NC
"Western North Carolina 500"
250 Miles on Half-mile Paved Track
August 8, 1965
1st Place - #43 Richard Petty Petty Engineering '65 Plymouth
Listed on Page 44 in Greg Fielden's Volume 3, Forty Years of Stock Car Racing - Big Bucks and Boycotts 1965-1971
Photo #2 Richard Petty won Western North Carolina 500 in an unpainted, unnumbered Plymouth


updated by @dennis-garrett: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
TMC Chase
@tmc-chase
12 years ago
4,073 posts

How 'bout that. Pretty neat photos. The King also ran without a number on the left side door in the 1965 Nashville 400. It was his 2nd GN race after the Chrysler boycott was lifted. He won the race. And this was the car Curtis Turner was scheduled to race at Spartanburg in his return to NASCAR.




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