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Bill and Roger Baldwin, Sportsman and Modified Team, Belmont, NC

Stock Car Racing History

Thanks, Dennis, I'll check out the photos.

The Grand National class ran current year and two years prior, so in 1964 the 1961 Starliner and Fairlane would have fallen down into the Sportsman class. The way I remember it, they built the 61 Ford Fairlane (still a full-sized sedan) with some help from Holman Moody to run in the Sportsman class. I think they ran some tests for H-M in some Modified-Sportsman races. They wanted to run the Permatex Modified-Sportsman race at Daytona, so they swapped the "good stuff" off the Fairlane and built up a Starliner because it was better aerodynamically. The results of that Feb 1966 race show Carl Burris of Leaksville, NC finished 49th in a 61Ford number 9. I remember a picture in Hot Rod Magazine's Roundy-Round Corner several months later showing the back of their car on the hood of another car. A rear window had blown out and wrapped around their front end putting them out. I think they went back to the Fairlane after that. Do you know how long or how many races Don Bumgardner drove for them? or what happened to the cars when they were sold?

Bill and Roger Baldwin, Sportsman and Modified Team, Belmont, NC

Stock Car Racing History

Great! Didn't he have a daughter named Dot also?

Bill and Roger Baldwin, Sportsman and Modified Team, Belmont, NC

Stock Car Racing History

Thanks for the info.

John

Bill and Roger Baldwin, Sportsman and Modified Team, Belmont, NC

Stock Car Racing History

Thanks, Charles,

I'll let you know if I find anything on Bill and Roger.

John

Bill and Roger Baldwin, Sportsman and Modified Team, Belmont, NC

Stock Car Racing History

In Belmont, Gaston County, NC, we had a local Sportsman racing team in the late fifties through the early seventies owned by Bill and Roger Baldwin. Bill worked for Duke Power Co. and Roger went to work for Holman-Moody in the late sixties. Pictures and informationare almost non-existent.

My questions are: 1) Does anyone have pictures or documentationof the cars (56 Ford, 61 Ford Fairlane, or the 61 Ford Starliner) that they built; 2)Does anyone have pictures or documentation about the drivers: Roger Baldwin, Carl Burris, Don Bumgarder, and possibly others; 3)What happenened to the cars, 56 Ford, 61 Ford Fairlane, and 61 Ford Starliner when Bill Baldwin sold the cars and parts in the seventies? Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

updated by @john-sigman: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM