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  1.   gps_50 posted:
  07.09.2017 - 8:41 am
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webmaster: #13 was a Toyota


  2.   nascar_vd / Racing-Reference.info posted:
  07.09.2017 - 12:25 pm
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Note: New Body Style = all cars (except #71)


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.09.2017 - 12:53 pm
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The NASCAR K&N East series returns to its old stomping grounds at
Thompson for the first time since 2009 with the tour marking the
occasion with a special Southern 500-style throwback race calling back
to the series' origins as the Busch North series. Teams with the means
to do so were asked to run throwback paint schemes if possible with
several old school looks being brought back for this event. Ironically
with all the classic paint schemes the race was won by Harrison Burton
and his #12 Dex Imaging Toyota which featured a decidedly modern
"sponsor on the door, number on the quarter panel" scheme.

Reigning Whelen Modified Tour champion Doug Coby made his K&N East debut
here and finished in the top-5 driving on of the retro cars. His #43 had
a gold-and-black scheme to replicate the old #51 Coors Extra Gold entry
"Magic Shoes" Mike McLaughlin drove in the early 1990s when McLaughlin
made the jump from modifeds to full-bodied stockers.

Jared Irvan had one of the more notable throwback paint schemes even if
it wasn't Busch North inspired. He made his first start of the 2017
season in a bright yellow #4 Toyota done up with his current sponsors in
the style of his father Ernie Irvan's 1991 Daytona 500-winning Kodak
Morgan-McClure Racing entry. Ernie was present for this one to watch
Jared race.


  4.   Mike posted:
  07.09.2017 - 1:21 pm
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Third straight pole for Chase Purdy.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.15.2017 - 9:08 pm
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Todd Gilliland had the best finish of any of the throwback cars. His #16
NAPA entry paid tribute the one the late Stub Fadden ran in this series
from 1994 to 1998.

Ruben Garcia, Jr. switched numbers from #6 to #03 for this race. His
white and blue throwback look honored the Telmex #03 Rogelio Lopez drove
to victory at Nashville in 2007 when he became the first Mexican NASCAR
racer to win an oval race.

Garcia's number swap opened up Chase Cabre to run the #6 instead of his
usual #4. Cabre's car for this one took advantage of the opportunity to
run a retro white look honoring the Southern Biscuit car that Tommy
Houston had so much success racing in the old NASCAR Busch Series.

Modified Tour racer Ryan Preece, in his first K&N East start of the
season, had his Whelen Engineering #31 entry was painted in the
company's famous red-and-scheme that has adorned so many race cars over
the years in multiple divisions.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.15.2017 - 9:14 pm
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Eddie MacDonald has been racing long enough he was a standout in the
closing years of the Busch North era. Fittingly McDonald's entry, as
noted earlier the only one with an old metal body in this one, was
painted in a scheme to honor four-time Busch North champion Andy
Santerre with Santerre being present to watch it race. It was a unique
choice, when Santerre won the championship in 2005 and retired MacDonald
was the one who won the last race of the season.

Polesitter Chase Purdy and the #17 team had announced they planned to
run a black-and-white scheme for this one in the style of the Skoal #7
Dale Shaw had success with back in the 1990s. Ultimately it didn't come
together and he ran his normal scheme.


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