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  1.   Bud Talley posted:
  12.26.2011 - 6:53 pm
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Something doesn't add up here, and I was wondering if anyone could help
me. In 1957, I was 10 years old...and a big Curtis Turner fan. My uncle
took me to my first race somewhere around that time (could've been a
year earlier or a year later) and it was at the Charlotte
Fairgrounds...and a convertible night race. They had a little covered
grandstand on the frontstretch, and the cars pitted right in front of
us. (Of course, there wasn't much pitting in a 100-mile, 200-lap race.)
I remember that we got there early and also watched the qualifying runs,
and that Turner started on the 2nd or 3rd row....and spun out on the 1st
lap trying to pass for the lead, dropping all the way to the back of the
field. He spent the rest of the race driving in his usual fashion...flat
out...passing cars while trying to get back to the front, before he blew
up/crashed somewhere in the middle of the race. I remember him parking
his car right in front of us & drinking a coca-cola. According the the
finish rundown here, this looks like the race....as he started 4th &
crashed after 90 laps. Here is what doesn't add up, though: I found a
newspaper article from August 24th, 1957 (the next day) from the nearby
Gastonia Gazette that said Curtis Turner WON that race on the last lap
before 7,400 fans. One would think that next day's newspaper article
would have been right and that this site has this race mixed up with
another one. (They ran 2 or 3 convertible races at this track for 2 or 3
years there.) If anyone can help me straighten this out...or give me the
date of the race I am talking about going to...when Turner started near
the front but did NOT win, I'd really appreciate it. By the way, here is
the newspaper article on the race that was supposed to have been run
here on August 23rd, 1957. Hope you can read it. If it reverts to the
first page of the paper, the article is on page #10:

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=65507974&src=browse


  2.   Anonymous posted:
  02.02.2014 - 6:03 pm
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Curtis probably relief drove for Glen.


  3.   Anonymous posted:
  11.29.2014 - 2:06 pm
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Gwyn led 20 laps, not 10


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