Racing History Minute - July 4, 1956
Stock Car Racing History
Race report from The Dispatch of Lexington NC.
Race report from The Dispatch of Lexington NC.
Some blog re-runs of Richard Petty wins on the 4th of July:
1975 Firecracker 400
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-4-this-day-in-petty-history-part-1.html
1977 Firecracker 400
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-4-this-day-in-petty-history-part-2.html
1984 Firecracker 400
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-4-this-day-in-petty-history-part.html
Steady rain in Tennessee too. Temps in high 60s. Can't remember the last 4th it was this cool. But hopefully it'll be clear skies when the green drops in Daytona Saturday evening.
Nashville is home to the Tennessee Titans football team. But NASCAR's Air Titan? Nowhere to be found in our neighborhood.
Shhh, now don't go spoilin' all my thunder for my 4th of Julie post Perry. 
Here is a link to a May 1, 1983 SHJ article about the big track going to Bama vs. SC.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkMsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=384EAAAA...
And here is a NASCAR.com article from 2009 that I had to dig out of the Way Back Machine because the content didn't carry over to the "new" NASCAR.com.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090502093907/http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/features/04/29/enterprise.inside.nascar.spartanburg/index.html
Two articles from Spartanburg Herald Journal
Race preview - July 3rd
Race report - July 4th
Yep. The King and 76 have been together for many years before today.
Today Richard Petty IS 76. How about how he looked IN '76 when he sported his short lived bicentennial beard.
Two years ago, I blogged a few pics from past birthdays of King in Daytona. While the blog post itself may now be a bit dated, Ol' Blue is timeless.
http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2011/07/happy-birthday-to-king-richard.html