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Rockfish Superspeedway - Hope Mills, NC

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Love this site! Learn something new all the time. Eric is right Robert. The lower picture is the old Fayetteville Speedway. When dad ran there in 1964 we would sit in the stands off turn 4 and look over left shoulder to see cars on the end of the drag strip. Two shows in one. Sure looks like a road course that I never knew was there. Did not realize that the dirt track and Champion Speedway was as close as they were. No trace of the drag strip or road course remain but the ghost of the dirt track can be seen. The area close to the four lane is a cemetery now.

AUGUSTA GT 200 SEPT. 14,1968

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AUGUSTA GT 200 1968

Sept. 14, 1968

Augusta, Ga.

Tiny Lund led qualifying for race number 18 of 1968 at the 1/2 mile paved Augusta International Speedway. Then piloted his Bud Moore prepared Cougar to his 8 ^th win of the season.

Fin. Start Driver Car # Laps Status

1 1 Tiny Lund 68 Cougar 16 200 Running

2 Donnie Allison 68 Mustang 27 Running

3 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro 88 Running

4 Bud Moore 68 Camaro 1 Running

5 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 3 Running

6 Harold Dunaway 68 Camaro 22 Running

7 Billy Yuma 68 Camaro 08 Running

8 Jimmy Vaughn 68 Camaro 7

9 Stan Starr, Jr. 68 Camaro 9

10 Jack Ryan 67 Porsche 36

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DARLINGTON 250 - SEPTEMBER 1,1968

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Wonder why Donnie Allison did not make the field after entering the '68 Mustang?

DARLINGTON 250 - SEPTEMBER 1,1968

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Thanks Chase. Ultimate Racing History had it listed as the 31st and the NASCAR Newsletter had it as the 1st.

DARLINGTON 250 - SEPTEMBER 1,1968

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DARLINGTON 250 1968

September 1, 1968

Darlington, SC.

Tiny Lund and Buck Baker were on top of the speed chart after first day qualifying on Thursday for race number 17 of 1968 at the 1 3/8 mile paved Darlington Raceway. Only six cars made qualifying runs. Second day qualifying saw Paul Goldsmith in Smokey Yunicks Camaro lay down a lap 5 miles per hour faster than Lunds best lap. Only seven cars made qualifying runs. The rest of the starting positions were determined by the order of the cars registration at the speedway. Smokey brought two Camaros to Darlington but Bunkie Blackburn tangled with Neil Castles in practice causing too much damage to make the field.

Tiny Lund piloted the Bud Moore Cougar to his 7 ^th win of the season collecting $3,675 of the $20,000 purse. Only seven of the twenty five starters were running at the finish. The win also pushed Tiny into the lead in the point standings.

Fin. Start Driver Car # Laps Status

1 1 Tiny Lund 68 Cougar 16 182 Running

2 8 Bobby Allison 68 Camaro 9 177 Running

3 23 Billy Yuma 68 Camaro 08 174 Running

4 3 Harold Dunaway 68 Camaro 22 174 Running

5 7 Paul Goldsmith 68 Camaro 13 172 Running

6 25 John Sears 66 Dart 4 171 Running

7 12 Peter Greeg 68 Porsche 59 Running

8 5 Bob Tarrozzi 68 Dart 93 Accident

9 9 Bud Moore 68 Camaro 1 Engine

10 19 Al Straub 68 Mustang 74

11 11 Jack Ryan 67 Porsche 36 Accident

12 20 Jim Hall 68 Dart 48

13 18 Earle Canavan 68 Javelin 31

14 21 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro 88 Driveshaft

15 10 Terry Wagner 68 Camaro 23 Accident

16 2 Buck Baker 68 Camaro 87 97 Engine

17 15 Roy Tyner 68 Camaro 5

18 Bill Champion 68 Camaro

19 6 Curtis Turner 68 Javelin 33 70 Engine

20 4 C.B. Gwyn 68 Cougar 04

21 22 Ernie Shaw 68 Mustang 17

22 16 Jimmy Vaughn 68 Camaro 7

23 24 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 3

24 Ed Hinchcliff 68 Mustang 76

25 17 Larry Newton 67 Cooper 63 1

Tiny Lund

Paul Goldsmith

Larry Newton in a 67 Austin Cooper and John Sears in a Dodge Dart

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HLB 400 MACON SEPT. 28, 1969

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Dave, I have no idea why Randy did not use a relief driver. While it was not common practice in GT/GA it was not unheard of. Russell Nelson would win in relief of T.C. Hunt in '69 at Kingsport. I can only guess that it could have been some kind of NASCAR rule in '68, they had many rules different than the GN division, most said to reduce cost. I have never driven in Macon in the summer but I have worked at a brick plant there in Aug. and Sept. before and it can be very hot and humid. Easy to get dehydrated.

HLB 400 MACON SEPT. 28, 1969

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Does anyone know if the Cougar #1 driven by Preston Humphries in this race is the same Cougar driven by Lil' Bud Moore in '68?

HLB 400 MACON SEPT. 28, 1969

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HLB 400

Charlie Blanton #10

Personal note:

Dad still says he won that race.

updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM

BAMA 400 Sept. 13, 1969

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BAMA 400

Alabama International Speedway

Talladega, Alabama Sept. 13, 1969

Grand Touring race #30

Tommy Andrews

Trans Am regular Larry Bock

Harry Gailey

#3 Bunkie Blackburn, #27 Jim Paschal, #25 Pete Hamilton, #41 Red Farmer, #15 Wayne Andrews, #43 Harry Gailey, #67 Jim Hurtubise, #93 Ron Grable, #44 Ken Rush

Smokey Yunicks Mustang dropped the 1 and ran as #3

I think this is a Jeff Gilder photo

End of Bunkies day

I think this is a Jeff Gilder photo

American Motors team of #93 Ron Grable and #94 Bob Tullius

#16 Tiny Lund and #8 Racers Reunion member Phil Wills

Richard Childress #13 Green Camaro

Wayne Andrews, Ken Rush and Ron Grable

Wayne Andrews and Ken Rush

Personal notes:

Shaw Racing Enterprises now was a two car team. The Cougar ran in this race was also formally a Bud Moore car. Dad called it the R&D car. When they got the car it still had all the side windows and the doors opened on factory hinges and latches. Several door bars had to be added on both sides to the roll cage to make it NASCAR legal. It had holes in the back of the floor pan and mounting brackets for rear end links. We assumed this was tried to eliminate wheel hop. Reid always said this car was very stock when he got it. All this points to this car being one of the Trans Am Cougars but we have no documentation of it. Cant remember what number the car had on it from Buds.

The car ran well in this race. A problem on pit road probably cost Wayne the win. On a fuel stop the filler neck fell into the truck. Rules only allowed 2 men over the wall. By the time they figured out what had happened and opened the trunk to get the gas in the tank he was a lap down. Once back on the track he was able to run Ken down and pass him to get on the lead lap but there were no more cautions and Ken caught Waynes draft and rode it to the end. In 2004 when Jim Paschal died, dad and I were in line for visitation when someone came up and grabbed dad from behind and asked Do you know who finished second at the first race at Talladega? It was Ken Rush.

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THOMPSON 200 - AUGUST 31, 1969

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1969 Northern Tour

Thompson International Speedway

1/2 mile paved oval

Paschal Takes GT Tour Championship

Jim Paschal, veteran Grand National driver who has found new life in the NASCAR Grand Touring division, has won the Northern Tour Championship, a five race circuit that ended Sunday, August 31 at Thompson, Conn.

Paschal accumulated 240 points in a special point fund to edge the Grand Touring Division seasonal point leader, Ken Rush, by six points.

Paschal won only one of the five races in his 1969 Javelin but finished second at Milton, Vt.; third at Stafford Springs, Conn.; fourth at Holland, N.Y. and fifth at Thompson, Conn..

Frank Sessoms was third on the Northern Tour point race with 216 and Charlie Blanton and Tiny Lund tied for fourth with 210 points each. Paschal won $1,000 of a $10,000 special fund.

While Rush finished second to Paschal in the Northern Tour points he still managed to increase his lead over Frank Sessoms and Buck Baker in the battle for the GT championship. Following the tour Rush has 1,393 points for a lead of 34 over Sessoms. Sessoms has 1359 points and Baker has 1311.

Tiny Lund, with one Northern Tour victory, padded his lead in GT money winnings. He now has won $23,642 compared to $18,368 for second place Pete Hamilton.

updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM