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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  11.03.2009 - 9:54 am
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Screen cap which shows that Baxter Price was the driver of the #45 not
Roy Smith?

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8343/baxter.jpg


  2.   jamie88fa posted:
  04.08.2011 - 1:10 pm
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Ware s baxter price he was the 1 st yellow in this race ...


  3.   jamie88fa posted:
  04.08.2011 - 1:14 pm
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On the old cbs tape of this race they have the 45 as baxter price not
roy smith...


  4.   Webmaster posted:
  04.08.2011 - 2:40 pm
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#3: You are correct about the CBS video showing Baxter Price in the 45
and I have corrected that in the database. However, Greg Fielden's book
shows Roy Smith in that car, and I haven't found an official NASCAR
report for this race.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.29.2012 - 6:17 pm
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Sponsors (and missing owners):
#21 Neil Bonnett- Purolator
#11 Cale Yarborough- Busch
#28 Buddy Baker- NAPA / Regal Ride Shocks
#88 Darrell Waltrip- Gatorade
#15 Bobby Allison- Mike Curb / Hodgdon
#51 A.J. Foyt- Valvoline / Gilmore
#71 Dave Marcis- Buck Stove / Hudson Transmission (owned by Dave Marcis)
#68 Chuck Bown- Kings Mountain Truck Plaza
#44 Terry Labonte- Stratagraph
#24 Cecil Gordon- Sadler Motors / Smith Used Cars (owned by Cecil Gordon)
#8 Kevin Housby- Taylor & Martin / Marina Inn
#17 Roger Hamby- Kings Inn Daytona
#19 Bill Dennis- Belden Asphalt
#90 Jody Ridley- Truxmore / Sunny King
#64 Tommy Gale- Sunny King Ford & Honda
#65 Ralph Jones- Spohn's Body Shop (owned by Ron Spohn)
#7 Dick Brooks- Sanyo
#05 Bill Elswick- (owned by RahMoc Enterprises)
#00 John Utsman- Kingsport Speedway
#04 Phil Finney- (owned by Phil Finney)
#63 Jocko Maggiacomo- Shaw Motors (owned by Jocko Maggiacomo)
#4 Gary Baker- Waylon Jennings
#42 Kyle Petty- STP
#45 Baxter Price- Iron Peddlers
#40 Bill Whittington- Jim Morrison
#2 Dale Earnhardt- Mike Curb / Hodgdon
#20 Rick Newsom- Louise Smith (owned by Rick Newsom)

Kyle Petty, with perhaps Petty Enterprises' last pre-2001 Dodge entry,
doesn't make the grid for his first Daytona 500 after crashing out of
this qualifier. His dad's surplus Dodge Magnum ended up crushed when
Petty was collected in the big one that started when Gary Baker spun off
turn 4.

Roger Hamby and Bill Dennis race in only to have different drivers in
their rides for the 500. Hamby handed his #17 over to Don Whittington,
who DNQed in the #55, while owner Henley Gray replaced Dennis with J.D.
McDuffie, who DNQed in the second 125, to drive his #19.


  6.   Schroeder51 posted:
  09.25.2013 - 3:34 pm
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There was a huge crash in this qualifying race that occurred when Gary
Baker, who was running in 12th and in position to make the Daytona 500,
spun coming off the fourth corner and collected a whole pack of cars
behind him. Most notably, Kyle Petty was involved and his car was too
heavily damaged to be repaired and make the 500. As a result of the
accident, Baker, Petty, Buck Simmons, John Utsman, Phil Finney, Jocko
Maggiacomo, Don Whittington, and Baxter Price all failed to make the 500.


  7.   Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted:
  11.05.2013 - 8:39 am
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Gary Baker(#4) and Jocko Maggiacomo(#63) can be added to the wreck in
the caution report, it was Baker that caused the pileup.


  8.   myself posted:
  02.19.2016 - 1:32 pm
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One of the better Twin 125s these eyes have ever seen.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.11.2016 - 10:31 pm
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Sponsor:
#55 Don Whittington- DiGard Racing (the team put its own logo on the
hood and quarter panels)


  10.   zuel660 posted:
  02.28.2019 - 3:40 pm
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#90 says it's a Ford for this race, but a Mercury for the 500. Error or
did the Donlavey team run a different car?


  11.   MSportRev posted:
  02.28.2019 - 3:58 pm
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@10 I remember reading somewhere that Ridley had wrecked in practice and
the back-up car was a Mercury, or something along those lines. If I can
dig that article back-up, I'll share it.


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