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Occoneechee/Orange Historic Speedway

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Ran across this today from the Oct. 29, 1961 Grand National 150 lapper at Orange Speedway in Hillsboro. It was listed as being from NASCAR - The Complete Story, by Greg Fielden. The beautiful blonde on the left is Miss Pontiac Linda Vaughn. Of course the man in the Rebel 300 shirt is Little Joe Weatherly the winner that day. The man you see peeking between them in the Autolite cap is car owner and 1961 Mechanic of the Year Bud Moore. Anyone know who the beautiful lady presenting the trophy is?

A DODGE --yup its a Dodge doing duty

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Racing History Minute - May 30, 1951

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8th place finisher Mike Klapak was the National Sportsman Champion in 1950, 1951 and 1952.

Kyle Petty Pit Board Sign (early 80's)

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James, I can't say what Kyle's sign was made of but in the early 70's ours were made of a man made material that I think was called masonite.

A STEP BACK IN TIME WITH --SOUTHERN NITES--

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Wow Johnny! Add 10 years to the date and I could have written most of this myself. Things did not change as fast then as they do now. My only experience with a tricycle was on my cousin's, and it was a bad one, but I did have a Western Auto wagon that I painted blue and put a #4 on the side.

Was this a requirement or a driver preference

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Johnny,

I was not there at the first race at Charlotte in 1960but I think I've read that NASCAR mandated the mud flaps but the teams came up with their own devices on the front to deal with the green asphalt coming up.

May 24, 1964: Paschal's overlooked World 600 win

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In the mid 80's we were running Formula Vee's in SCCA and when we would run Charlotte we could use the drivers lounge for uniform changes. That was before the renovations that made the speedway a showcase. The lounge was just a small room with a few benches and locker along the walls, might have had a couple showers at one end. Anyway, the locker doors had the names of all the past winners at the speedway hand painted on them and I always admired the one with Jim's '64 and '67 World 600 wins. I have often wondered what ever happened to those lockers, what a find that would be today.

Racing History Minute - May 24, 1959

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Don't know for sure but this may have been the car Joe Lee Johnson drove at both Bowman-Gray and Nashville. One article Chase posted listed him in a '57 Chevy and the other in a '57 Ford.

Racing History Minute - May 24, 1959

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I remember seeing at lot of these back in the day.

And these.

Anyone got any pictures of Joe Lee Johnson's Honest Charley Chevrolet?

This day in 1970 - May 24, 1970

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I don't know the answer to your question Patsy. I tried to look it up on Ultimate Racing History but it just listed the event as being 100 laps. It did list Dick as driving the #99 '69 Torino and Ries as driving a #67 '69 Camaro. That could have been the same car he won with at Daytona.