A couple of racing periodicals featured Isaac's win.
April 1970 Stock Car Racing
Next 2 from Russ Thompson.
December 10, 1969 National Speed Sport News
March 1970 Auto Racing magazine
To tie into a fellow SHOFer's birthday, I blogged about this race about a year ago as the closest one with relevance.
https://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/12/december-3-birthday-and-buddys-bobble.html
I'll excerpt some of it here:
As you noted Tim, it was the first race at the track originally known as Texas International Speedway. It was only after the race went through bankruptcy, reorganization, a skipped year in 1970, etc. that it was renamed as Texas World Speedway.
Long-time NASCAR writer and friend of Baker, Tom Higgins, writing at the time for ThatsRacin.com recalled in a 2010 column :
While running at Texas World Speedway, where NASCAR staged seven races at the Cup Series level from 1969-81, Big Buddy once seemed to have Victory Lane awaiting him. But a crash while under caution took him out of contention. He ran into James Hylton on the frontstretch. "We didn't have radio communication between the cars and the pits in those days," recalls Baker. "I momentarily took my eyes off the track to try and read a message the crew was giving me on a big chalk board. Hylton was going a bit slower than me, and I hit him." The chalked message? "You've Got It Made!"
James Hylton's winged Dodge Daytona before he got plowed:
For the other side of the story, Hylton - who soldiered on to finish 4th - remembers:
Buddy Baker ran into me under a caution. Bent the hell out of my car but tore his up completely and he couldn't finish the race.
On a website documenting the history of Cotton Owens, a separate page for Buddy's uh-oh moment recaps this bizarre but funny way to lose a race. An excerpt from it reads:
We find our hero leading the 500 mile Grand National race, which is running under caution. Pit stops have been made , and the cars are lined up behind the pace car leisurely circling the track with Buddy, leading the race but following closely behind James Hylton behind the pace car. Cotton is busy flashing Buddy a pit board every time by. But the message was too big for one pit board so Cotton wrote on two boards and showed both to Buddy at the same time. This was to much for poor Buddy, he had to do a double take ... while leading the race, which was under caution, Buddy Baker CRASHED into the back of James Hylton and busted the radiator in Cotton's wonderful Dodge. Oh, Cotton's message? P1 take it easy.
The site also includes a couple of photos originally published in Motor Trend magazine.
In his book Forty Years of Stock Car Racing - Volume 3 , Greg Fielden writes:
Dodge officials were visibly upset when Baker crashed out under the yellow flag. The only race Dodge had won on the big tracks (TMC: in 1969) was a tainted 500-miler at Talladega. Crew chief and car owner Owens slu n g the pit board like a frisbee as he watched Baker take himself out of the race. ~ p. 263
With Panch's retirement falling on December 6, 1966, I found another event involving him interesting because it too occurred on December 6th. Five men - Ernie Gahan, Bill Wimble, Stephen Petrasek, Tiny Lund, and Jerry Rayborn - were announced on December 6, 1963 as the recipients of the NASCAR Naughton Award for Sportsmanship. They were collectively recognized for their role in rescuing Marvin Panch following his fiery crash at Daytona earlier that year. The award was to be presented to each man the following February at NASCAR's annual awards dinner, but the press release apparently went out in December.
Dave Fulton posted about the Naughton Award almost 2 years ago here:
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/general/12600/how-about-nascar-sportsmanship
Article from Spartanburg Herald .
December 6, 1966 - Marvin Panch announces his retirement from racing. Pancho's final win was in the [ 1966 World 600 in a Petty Plymouth ] and with relief help from Richard Petty. From Spartanburg Herald .
December 6, 1978 - Benny Parsons announces he is leaving L.G. DeWitt's team to drive for M.C. Anderson. Parsons' departure created a great opportunity for rookie Joe Millikan to get a full-time Cup ride in 1979. But Benny's concerns about DeWitt's team were well founded as it shut down a third of the way through the 1980 season leaving Millikan without a ride. From Spartanburg Herald .
December 6, 1974 - Bud Moore announces he lost RC Cola as a sponsor. Fortunately, he was able to sign a patchwork of sponsors to help back Buddy Baker for a partial schedule in 1975 and then Norris Industries for all of 1976. From Spartanburg Herald .
December 6 , 1974 - On the same day as Moore's sponsor bad news, Joe Frasson got what was thought to be some good news. The long-time Mopar driver agreed to race a Pontiac in some races in its non-factory return. Crawford Clements was announced as the owner with Tiger Tom Pistone supplying the chassis. - Spartanburg Herald
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From the 1975 race results I've found, Frasson was credited as the "owner" - perhaps for points reasons. He fielded the Pontiac in 3 events. He DNQ'd in the Daytona 500 and finished 18th in the Winston 500 at Talladega. But when he DNQ'd again for the World 600, he'd seen enough. After missing the race, he took a jack handle and beat the snot of the Pontiac's hood.
I'm a day late on posting on the anniversary of this event. But considering I haven't seen any December 5th history posted today, I figured I was in the clear.
This one goes out to Tim Leeming who I'm quite sure will have a polarizing opinion about the outcome of this race.
December 4, 1977 - Five Flags Speedway - Pensacola FL - Snowball Derby
Rather than type a bunch of words, let's have the 2 parties involved in the controversy tell their side of the story about the finish of this race.
One thing is clear - regardless of who was the true winner, the race true a ton of superstars both from the present and destined to be one in the years to come.
| Fin | Driver |
| 1 | Ronnie Sanders |
| 2 | Buck Simmons |
| 3 | Darrell Waltrip |
| 4 | Bob Senneker |
| 5 | Sandy Goss |
| 6 | Jack Ingram |
| 7 | Ed Howe |
| 8 | Jerry Goodwin |
| 9 | Randy Tissot |
| 10 | Luther Carter |
| 11 | Donnie Simpson |
| 12 | Junior Niedecken |
| 13 | Dennie Rewis |
| 14 | David Goldsberry |
| 15 | J.D. Hughes |
| 16 | Sam Sommers |
| 17 | Mark Martin |
| 18 | Gene Morgan |
| 19 | Charles Skipper |
| 20 | Larry Rogero |
| 21 | Dickie Davis |
| 22 | Kasper Miles |
| 23 | Jerry Lawley |
| 24 | Ronnie Pitts |
| 25 | Bobby Allison |
| 26 | Tommy Houston |
| 27 | Red Farmer |
| 28 | Jody Ridley |
| 29 | David Pletcher |
| 30 | Harry Deaton |
| 31 | Butch Lindley |
| 32 | Jack Bland |
| 33 | Freddie Fryar |
| 34 | John Rezek |
| 35 | Buddy Baker |
| 36 | Dale Earnhardt |
| 37 | Rusty Wallace |
| 38 | Mike Alexander |
| 39 | Ray Putnam |
| 40 | David Rogers |
I think its also how Wendell Scott gets "in" the Hall. Lots of sentiment to put him in as legit HOFer because of what he endured. Yet facts are what they are - not what they could or should have been. 1 win. That's it.
Yet the hell Wendell persevered through is worth noting in some manner. I'm pretty sure Scott never received the Myers Brothers or Buddy Shuman awards. This Landmark Award will probably be and rightfully awarded to his family as a genuine recognition of his contributions to racing.
But yes Andy, Wendell's family may get it AFTER Annie B. 
I think Parks and Byron's best chances were those 1st couple of classes. Now that the selection process has got a rhythm to it, I think they'll drift further out of contention with each passing year. I had a nice conversation with Dale Inman and the King at Phoenix about Jim Paschal's chances. Both kind of winced and felt like it would be an awfully long time before he'd even be considered.
Schrader is awesome. But when I see his name in print as now being eligible - even if its only a technicality, I'm troubled.
Richard made it a point about the voters and the public knowing the people that are selected. I get that to a point. Its certainly been recognized with DJ, Rusty, Waltrip and even the guys who came of age during the 70s-90s. But I hope and trust it doesn't mean backs will be turned to those who really got this thing rolling. I have to believe there will be more consideration of folks from the same era - and before - as Herb Thomas, Buck Baker and Lee Petty.
Sonic Automotive doesn't have any dealerships in Austin - currently.
But I think Bruton may be salivating at the prospect of selling a car to some of those F1 aristocrats. He may have a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Benz or Bentley dealership opened by next Halloween.
A little more than a month later, the proposed CMS buyout of AIR fell apart. Atlanta went into bankruptcy but was allowed to continue hosting races. Walter Nix and L.G. DeWitt were able to buy the track out of bankruptcy some time later. Source: Wilmington Star-News
1969 - Buddy Baker wins the pole for the inaugural race at Texas International Speedway (renamed 2 years later to Texas World Speedway). From Spartanburg Herald .
1971 - Pete Hamilton wins the pole for the Texas 500 at Texas World Speedway. From Daytona Beach Morning Journal .
1976 - David Pearson is named as the American driver of the year over fellow NASCAR driver Cale Yarborough. Source: Spartanburg Herald Journal
And I'm sure everyone remembers Speedway Motorsports' acquisition of Atlanta International Raceway in 1990. But how about the announcement about the FIRST time the team in Charlotte was to purchase Atlanta - on this date 2 decades earlier? Wait. WHAT?? From 12-05-70 Spartanburg Herald.
