Think your local highway is crowded? Try running a NASCAR Modified at South Boston (Va.) Speedway on April 9, 1967. The top photo shows the beginning of a huge crash that took out 12 cars in the National Championship event. The bottom photo shows the Tant/Mitchell
#11 coupe of Rapid Ray Hendrick seconds before it was totally destroyed. Ted Hairfield of Richmond would win the 200-lap race held on the 102nd anniversary of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomatox Court House, not far from the track.
Photo appeared in April 11, 1967 South Boston Gazette-Virginian
This ad for the South Boston NASCAR Modified race in the photos ran early in the week of the race:
The same issue of the South Boston Gazette-Virginian also carried news that Richmond's Southside Speedway would open on the coming Friday night of April 14, 1967 under new promoter Emanuel "The Golden Greek" Zervakis, a two-time Grand National winnerand would add for the first time the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman division to its program: