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Champion Raceway 1955

Stock Car Racing History

The following is from several editions of the Fayetteville Observer in November 1955.

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

Racing Coverage circa 1963

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The following AP story appeared in the April 24,1963 Richmond County Journal. Covered a lot of tracks that were operating at the time from SC to Va.

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

Racing story from 1963

Stock Car Racing History

Dave, Here is a piece on Big John on his ROTY bid in 1966. From Richmond County Journal.

Racing story from 1963

Stock Car Racing History

The following is an Associated Press story thatwas in the April 24, 1963 edition of the Richmond County Journal.

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

Help Decipher The Mysteries Of The First NASCAR Season

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Thanks for the facts Robert, I should know better than to assume, I guess you know what that makes me. In my Bennett Speedway research I found the name Ted Swain but I think it was mis-spelled as I have not run across it spelled that way anywhere else but have seen Swaim in many places during the mid 50's.

Help Decipher The Mysteries Of The First NASCAR Season

Stock Car Racing History

I can not say for sure Dave but I believe it is the same family. I have come across the Swaim name in research on the Bennett Speedway and Rockingham Speedway during the mid-50's.

The Right Kind of Grand Marshal & Honorary Starter - Thanks Martinsville

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Welcome Home J.B. Thank you!

And thanks to Martinsville Speedway, Gary Sinise, Goody's and Arat, Va.

Thunder Over Daytona - Looking for Toyota Prez Driving Laps?

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This group does a great service to our country by saving these war birds so that the current generation can see real history. I grew up reading about the aircraft of WWII and the men that flew them. "Flying Tigers", "Great American Fighter Pilots of WWII", "Flying Fortress", "Black Thursday", "Thunderbolt", "Aircraft Carrier", "Memphis Belle".

I will never forget the first time I saw a real P-40 and B-17 up close that actually flew. It was 1982 at a Air National Guard base just outside New Orleans. This group was then called the Confederate Air Force and they put on a great show that day. I did not see the B-29, don't think they had it then, but they had the B-17, a B-25 and a B-24, The B-24 landed the day before the air show but had to return to Texas because of engine trouble, it flew right over the place I was working so I got to see that much of it.

Glad to hear this group is still flying folks back in history.

THE PRICE YOU PAY TO RACE THIS DAY ----IN NASCAR

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Caraway was paying the same $300 to win in Limited in 1989 and the track tires were $110 each.

THE PRICE YOU PAY TO RACE THIS DAY ----IN NASCAR

Stock Car Racing History

Didn't we hear Kenny Wallace say the other night that the NASCAR Gold license was 8 grand?