From July 13, 2017 Greensboro News & Record
http://www.greensboro.com/gnr/high-point-museum-celebrates-city-s-racing-history/article_3856a9d4-a529-5e5c-8792-45016cf5bb1d.html
The High Point Museum is celebrating High Point’s racing history with an exhibit, community activities and historical markers.
“When Racing Was Racing” focuses on the early days of stock car racing. It highlights the careers of High Point drivers Fred Harb, Bill Blair Sr., Bob Welborn, Jimmie Lewallen, Ken Rush and Jim Paschal. It features photographs and memorabilia on loan from Bill Blair Jr.
The museum will have a NASCAR simulator race car based on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Xfinity Series Goody’s Chevy Camaro from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 29 . This is the car that he will be racing during the Xfinity race at the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 18.
Kona Ice of Greensboro will be at the museum from 1 to 4 p.m. July 29. Also that day, the museum’s Historical Park costumed interpreters will conduct a water bucket relay as well as show visitors how to use a water thumber to water plants.
The museum has planned more special events for Aug. 26 . The day will begin at 10 a.m. with a cruise-in by Johnny Handy, who drove at Tri City Speedway, in a 1939 Ford Coupe No. 0, Bill Blair Jr. driving a 1953 Oldsmobile tribute car that won the 1953 Daytona race for Bill Blair Sr., and Jimmy Hailey driving a replica of Bobby Allison’s AMC Matador.
Scheduled for noon is the unveiling of historical markers for the city’s two tracks — High Point Speedway, a 1-mile dirt track that featured a tunnel entrance, was built by the Baity Brothers, and Tri City Speedway, a half-mile red dirt track built by Bill and Bob Blair. Drivers and local dignitaries will be on hand.
Buz McKim, the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s historian, will be the moderator for a panel discussion from 1 to 2:30 p.m. that will include drivers and family members involved with the old speedways.
Author Rick Houston will be on-site from 3 to 4 p.m. to discuss his new book, “Dale Versus Daytona: The Intimidator’s Quest to Win the Great American Race.” The book features research and a year-by-year look at each of Dale Earnhardt’s Daytona 500s from 1979 through 2001.
For information, call 336-885-1859.
And here is the museum's website:
https://www.highpointnc.gov/699/Changing-Exhibits
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