Huntsville 100 - August 7, 1969
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Huntsville 100
Huntsville, Alabama
August 7, 1969
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Montgomery 100 8-5-69
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Montgomery 100
Montgomery, Alabama
Aug. 5, 1969
Gary Myers had made his first GT start at Hickory on July 26 th .
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SOUTH BOSTON GT 100 Aug. 2,1969
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Great find Dave. I've not seen this one before. My guess would be this is from the 1970 Citrus 250 as the #26 Camaro in the background was Richard Childress and the cars have no head lights. Richard ran #41 at Daytona in '69 and the July Paul Revere race was at night.
SOUTH BOSTON GT 100 Aug. 2,1969
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SOUTH BOSTON GT 100
South Boston, Va. Aug. 2, 1969
The Grand Touring cars returned to the South Boston Speedway for the second time in 1969 for the 20 th race of the year and was again 267 laps on the 3/8 mile paved oval.
Rain washed out qualifying so the starting grid was determined by random draw. Stan Starr, Jr. drew the number one spot and led the first 6 laps until Randy Hutchinson took over and led thru lap 174 when he had to pit with blistered tires. Wayne Andrews took the lead through lap 189 when Ken Rush went out front and managed to hold off Andrews to take the win. There were only 2 cautions for 15 laps. Frank Sessoms took over the point lead with his 5 th place finish.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out
1 19 44 Ken Rush 68 Camaro 267 Running
2 16 15 Wayne Andrews 68 Cougar 267 Running
3 7 2 Randy Hutchinson 68 Camaro 264 Running
4 18 25 Pete Hamilton 69 Camaro 264 Running
5 8 21 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro 261 Running
6 14 0 Martin Sharpe 68 Camaro 259 Running
7 4 74 Al Straub 68 Mustang 256 Running
8 3 8 Phil Wills 68 Camaro 251 Running
9 5 7 Jimmy Vaughn 68 Camaro 251 Running
10 2 54 Bobby Fleming 68 Camaro 250 Running
11 13 38 Bobby Brewer 68 Camaro 234 Running
12 17 10 Charlie Blanton 68 Camaro 226 Running
13 6 71 Amos Johnson 68 Camaro 220 Running
14 12 48 Tiny Lund 68 Camaro 209 Running
15 21 13 Richard Childress 68 Camaro 176 Running
16 10 17 Ernie Shaw 68 Mustang 163 Bln. Eng.
17 15 3 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 92 Bln. Eng.
18 9 87 Buck Baker 69 Firebird 61 Tranny
19 1 9 Stan Starr, Jr. 68 Camaro 45 Rear End
20 11 88 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro 17 Bln. Eng.
21 20 72 Doug Easton 68 Mustang 10 Oil Press.
Ken Rush
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ATLANTA 250 1968
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ATLANTA 250 1968
August 3, 1968
Atlanta, Ga.
Race number 12 of 1968 was at the 1.5 mile paved Atlanta Raceway.
Paul Goldsmith in a Smokey Yunick Camaro and Donnie Allison in a Mustang waged a 2 car battle at the front until Goldsmith had transmission failure. Allison went on to pilot the Jerri Huggins Mustang unchallenged to his 4 th win of the season collecting $2,300 of the $19,000 purse. Twelve of the twenty two starters were running at the finish. There were 3 cautions for 21 laps.
Fin. Start Driver Car # Laps Status
1 2 Donnie Allison 68 Mustang 27 167 Running
2 3 Tiny Lund 68 Cougar 16 167 Running
3 4 Charlie Glotzbach 68 Dart 93 166 Running
4 5 Buck Baker 68 Camaro 87 159 Running
5 10 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro 21 155 Running
6 Billy Yuma 68 Camaro 08 155 Running
7 11 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro 88 155 Running
8 7 Jack Ryan 67 Porsche 36 153 Running
9 16 Marty Robbins 66 Dart 4 149 Running
10 9 C.B. Gwyn 68 Cougar 04 147 Running
11 Friday Hassler 68 Camaro 9 147 Running
12 12 Lee Cutler 68 Porsche 55 139 Running
13 Herman Phil Wills 67 Baracuda 8 120
14 8 Harold Dunaway 68 Camaro 22 106
15 1 Paul Goldsmith 68 Camaro 13 97 Tranny
16 Arnett Awtry 68 Camaro 39 95
17 Ernie Shaw 66 Mustang 17 92
18 13 Al Straub 68 Mustang 74 71
19 6 Roy Tyner 68 Camaro 5 30
20 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 3 25
21 Terry Wagner 68 Camaro 2 16
22 Al Arnold 68 Mustang 47 2
#39 Arnett Awtry, #47 Al Arnold, #08 Billy Yuma, #9 Friday Hassler, #8 Phil Wills, #74 Al Straub
Paul Goldsmith
Tiny Lund
Row 1 #13 Paul Goldsmith #27 Donnie Allison
Row 2 #16 Tiny Lund #93 Charlie Glotzbach
Row 3 #87 Buck Baker #5 Roy Tyner
Row 4 #36 Jack Ryan #22 Harold Dunaway
Row 5 #04 C.B. Gwyn #21 Frank Sessoms
Row 6 #88 T.C. Hunt #55 Lee Cutler
Row 7 #74 Al Straub
Donnie Allison takes the checkers.
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NASCAR Came to Pocono 40 years Ago Monday; Petty Won on Tricky Triangle Before NASCAR
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Dave,
A couple of Grand American cars made the trip to Pocono in 1971 for the USAC Pennsylvania 500 won by Butch Hartman in a '69 Dodge Daytona. Jim Paschal drove a '70 Javelin and Wayne Andrews drove Reid Shaw's '71 Mustang. Paschal lost oil pressure after 97 laps and Wayne dropped a valve two laps later.
The reason this race sticks out in my mind is that there was a Nascar race rained out while they were at Pocono and when dad tried to enter the race on the rain date Nascar would not let him run because he went to Pocono.
It's officially my birthday!
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Eric, Jim watched some of the early nascar races from his seat in a race car.
CATAWBA VALLEY 300 7/26/1969
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CATAWBA VALLEY 300
Hickory Speedway
Hickory, N.C.
July 26, 1969
Race #19 of 1969 was held at Hickory Speedway, a 4/10 mile paved oval. Pete Hamilton qualified on the pole with a GT track record of 16.38 seconds and led the first 82 laps before spinning in turn four. Wayne Andrews took over the lead until lap 100. From there Pete led the rest of the way building up a 2 lap advantage to capture win number 8.
There were 3 cautions for 23 laps with 18 of the 26 starters running at the finish.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out
1 1 25 Pete Hamilton 69 Camaro 300 Running
5 2 15 Wayne Andrews 68 Cougar 298 Running
3 3 10 Charlie Blanton 68 Camaro 297 Running
4 6 07 Bob Burcham 68 Camaro 297 Running
5 11 87 Buck Baker 69 Firebird 293 Running
6 7 98 Russell Nelson 68 Mustang 289 Running
7 10 21 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro 287 Running
8 13 0 Martin Sharpe 68 Camaro 287 Running
9 12 88 T. C. Hunt 68 Camaro 286 Running
10 16 74 Al Straub 68 Mustang 285 Running
11 14 9 Stan Starr, Jr. 68 Camaro 279 Running
12 18 48 Phil Handrick 68 Camaro 277 Running
13 26 17 Ernie Shaw 68 Mustang 276 Running
14 15 41 Gary Myers 69 Mustang 271 Running
15 22 54 Bobby Fleming 68 Camaro 266 Running
16 21 13 Richard Childress 68 Camaro 265 Running
17 17 8 Phil Wills 68 Camaro 255 Running
18 19 7 Jimmy Vaughn 68 Camaro 252 Running
19 4 2 Randy Hutchison 68 Camaro 134 Steering
20 20 72 Doug Easton 68 Mustang 110 Oil Leak
21 9 16 Tiny Lund 69 Cougar 82 Oil Leak
22 24 36 Wilbur Pickett 67 Porsche 57 Tranny
23 5 44 Ken Rush 68 Camaro 42 Bln. Eng.
24 8 3 Jim Vandiver 68 Camaro 11 Bln. Eng.
25 23 4 Bobby Brewer 68 Camaro 3 Bln. Eng.
26 25 04 C.B. Gwyn 68 Cougar 2 Bln. Eng.
27 27 95 Butch Harden 68 Camaro 0 DNS
Smyle Media photo of starting grid at Hickory.
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PEACH STATE 200 7/24/1968
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PEACH STATE 200
Jefferson Ga. July 24, 1968
The 11th Grand Touring race of 1968 was held at Peach State Speedway and was 200 laps on the 1/2 mile paved oval. Tiny Lund started on the pole with a lap of 20.05 seconds on the way to his fourth victory of the year.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out
1 1 16 Tiny Lund 68 Cougar 200 Running
2 27 Donnie Allison 67 Mustang Running
3 Bud Moore 68 Cougar Running
4 22 Harold Dunaway 68 Camaro
5 21 Frank Sessoms 68 Camaro
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Bristol 300 7/20/1968
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Chase, The result I had from Ultimate racing history actually did not list a number or type of car for Arnet Awtry for the Bristol race. I inserted the #39 Camaro because that is the car he drove at Daytona and would later drive at Atlanta, my assumption being he drove the same car here. Looks like I may have been wrong. Now what is it that old saying makes me for assuming? Anyway, what I really love about this picture is the diversity of the cars back them. You just did not see many Baracuda or Dart stock cars.