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Racing History Minute Times Two, plus some, April 28, 1957

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CART 1985

And 1997 but with a different beer

Racing History Minute Times Two, plus some, April 28, 1957

Stock Car Racing History

TREMENDOUS sponsors!

Gas Furnished by Louis 605 Tavern - hahaha

And I've heard of G.I. Joe's store.

Racing History Minute Times Two, plus some, April 28, 1957

Stock Car Racing History

Nice work on the photo. I searched a few pages of Google Images and had zero hits.

Racing History Minute Times Two, plus some, April 28, 1957

Stock Car Racing History

For Goldsmith's win at Greensboro, the Daytona Beach Morning Journal applied the Sgt. Joe Friday model - Just the facts ma'am. To be factual though, they simply ran the AP wire copy (as did the Spartanburg Herald Journal).

But the Daytona Beach paper also noted Curtis Turner won the convertible race in Norfolk, VA run the same day as the 2 GN races. The win was Curtis' 3rd consecutive CV victory in a row - a streak that would grow to 4 in a row at Langhorne. And from April 13 through May 25, Curtis won 8 out of 10 convertible races. Remarkable.

As for Watts, it was not only his 1st GN win but his ONLY GN victory in a career of 19 starts. After skunking around several sports pages from April 29, I've concluded NASCAR apparently didn't credential media for the Portland race.

updated by @tmc-chase: 04/29/17 01:33:42PM

Lovebirds in the Grandstand (Eat your heart out, Gilder)

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Funny. Somehow I'd reminded of this great quip from Grouch Marx (edited by me):

"Just give me a comfortable [grandstand], a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!"

Racing History Minutes - April 27, 1980

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Thought I'd bring Tim's post from one year ago back to the top with the addition of these photos.

Neil Bonnett outwardly exhibited the stress he felt racing the Wood Brothers Mercury.

Kyle Petty made his first Martinsville start driving an STP Chevy Caprice. - Ray Lamm

Benny Parsons and Bobby Allison do battle in the corner.

Waltrip clings to his winner's trophy - a practice he repeated at Martinsville almost as often as The King.

updated by @tmc-chase: 04/26/17 11:30:02PM

Racing History Minutes - April 27, 1980

Stock Car Racing History

Just maybe a little bump draftin'. Ha ha

Racing History Minutes - April 27, 1980

Stock Car Racing History

Speaking of Joe Millikan, a pretty good thread was started about him at Randy Ayers Modeling Forum this week.

http://www.randyayersmodeling.com/modelingforum/viewtopic.php?t=77725

And Joe's late father - Frank Millikan - owned the property where the long lost race track, Tar Heel Speedway, once operated. (From Bobby Williamson collection)

Though now deceased, Frank's widow still has the property. And Mr. Millikan's name was still on the mailbox when I trespas... err, visited the area last year.

updated by @tmc-chase: 04/26/17 11:29:22PM

Racing History Minutes - April 27, 1980

Stock Car Racing History

Since you referenced the 2 Petty victories on April 27 - both in Martinsville's Virginia 500 - here is a revisit to my blog posts about them from a year ago.

April 27, 1969

http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-27-this-day-in-petty...

April 27, 1975

http://bench-racing.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-27-this-day-in-petty...

And here is the program cover from the April 27, 1980, race. The defending race AND Cup champ was featured on the cover.

Racing History Minutes - April 27, 1980

Stock Car Racing History

When it comes to the anniversary of Petty wins Tim, keep on mirror driving. As the disclaimer goes...