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I did find where the actor known as James Stacy passed in September 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/arts/television/james-stacy-dead.html?_r=0
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Here is the exact same tractor and trailer in early 1981 parked behind the Osterlund Racing shops on Old Statesville Road north of Charlotte in Croft, NC near old Metrolina Speedway.
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After NASCAR, JD even attempted to go head to head with the estate of that other King:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1388022/Pretenders-claim-to-Elvis-title-triggers-Battle-of-Graceland.html
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A little trivia... in November 1977, the first ever NASCAR race staged at Phoenix International Raceway was won by Cale Yarborough driving for JD Stacy:
http://www.ultimateracinghistory.com/race.php?raceid=7148
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Dozier Mobley captured Dale Earnhardt turning a deaf ear to Stacy during practice for Daytona's Firecracker 400 in July 1981 as crewman Eddie Jones in his practice day Wrangler racing team shirt chuckles in the background. Jones would leave the Stacy organization to head up Darrell Waltrip's Late Model Sportsman and later Busch Series program garaged at Charlotte Motor Speedway before starting a business supplying rear end gears to NASCAR teams. He was another of the good guys run off by Stacy. 
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I had history with Mr. Stacy back in 1981 when Rod Osterlund sold the #2 Dale Earnhardt / Wrangler Pontiac Racing team to JD. He immediately told us that he didn't care whether he had a sponsor or not and we moved quickly to take Dale and our Wrangler sponsorship to Richard Childress.
When I got to the August 1981 Michigan race, I carried two $10,000 checks - one for Richard Childress if Dale made the field in 1st round qualifying and one for Stacy to change the paint scheme on his #2 cars. Stacy accepted my check, but kept our blue and yellowWrangler colors, changing the striped blue and yellow chevron across the hood to a solid yellow chevron and also painting the front end blue.
Stacy remained cordial after that, even taking me over to Satch Worley's Log Cabin Speedway on Saturday night of Martinsville weekend to watch his car compete in the first $100,000 to win NDRA event. It was easy to like Stacy and his perennial stogie so long as you weren't dealing with him.
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Or maybe publicists were already trying to prove how divese their entry list was by listing the hometown that best suited their needs.
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Thank you, Jack. One of our friends attended Grand National races at that venue and possibly the Eastern Late Model Series.
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Jack, would the Bob Duell win at Rochester have been on the 1/2-mile dirt Monroe County Fairgrounds where Duell also competed for Julian Buesink in GN?