Jack Carter
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my thoughts and sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Jack Carter
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A Day Late But........November 20th, 1983 - Bill Elliott Racing History - Western Winston 500
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great story....thank you so much for all you do.....
The Los Angeles Times 500 Ontario Motor Speedway - November 20, 1977
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Here is a pic of a patch from this race. This race was the first super speedway race I ever attended. I wore the patch as a good luck piece on 4 different uniforms until this year. The second pic shows the patch from a few years ago from inside my old # 98 1937 Plymouth modified. The car is now in Texas and is back with the son of the original builder from 1968 at Wall Stadium in N.J.
The Los Angeles Times 500 Ontario Motor Speedway - November 19, 1978
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lol, good one Dave. Ole eagle eye doesn't miss much. We all know everything in Hollywood is fake . Another little side item from that race is something My late friend Gene Bergin who finished 9thonce told me. He received $800.00 instead of the published $600.00. We were invited to the modified racers reunion at New Smyrna Speedway and was talking about that race because I asked him if he wanted the brochure I had from that race. Gene was the top finisher in a Pinto and finished ahead of the great Richie Evans.
The Los Angeles Times 500 Ontario Motor Speedway - November 19, 1978
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excellent report Scott. Loved the pics also. brought back a ton of memories of my seeing my first race on a super speedway. I got to see the 1977 Times 500 at Ontario . I went to the west coast from Ohio on company business and was taken to the race. If my memory is correct Neil Bonnett won the race in the #5 car. It seems to me there was another 5 car out there at the time driven by Jim Thirkette. One souvenir I got was a patch showing the date and race with the #5 car on the patch. I used the patch ever since sorta as a good luck item and it survived many changes from race suit to race suit. I just took it off this year and threw it in the desk drawer. again, loved the report. thank you....
Don't Believe Everything You Read in Racing Books by "Experts" - i.e. Humpy Wheeler's "Growing Up NASCAR"
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don't discount the fact that ole humpy is foremost a promoter and strong fan of any publicity is good publicity so maybe the book sales isn't going as expected.
Racing History Minute - November 17, 1963
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I'm having dinner with Jack Anderson this coming Tuesday evening and I'll ask him for some memories from this race. It had to be tougher on the pit crews than the drivers as they had to set the cars up for all those foreign right hand turns. lol....
Racing History Minute - November 15, 1970
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duh!!! what about the number one pirate and happens to be from east Tennessee, Capt. Jeff Gilder..lol....