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  1.   SK posted:
  12.28.2007 - 1:56 am
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Tim Flock's first win with Carl Kiekhaefer.


  2.   dtroppens posted:
  02.22.2008 - 11:17 pm
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Probably the greatest owner that no one knows about. Around for two
years and literally showed up one year and was simply gone after the
second. Yet his drivers and his program dominated racing for those two
years. He was way ahead of his time. But he also was a serious pain to
work for. There are times he supposedly had drivers airplaned to him
just so he knew what the driver was doing.

Because of his dominance he became hated among the fans as well. He's an
interesting character to read about.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.11.2010 - 11:55 am
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Kiekhaefer pioneered the multi-car team, in many ways he was the
prototype for the Rick Hendricks and Jack Roushs of today


  4.   VoteGillilandNotDanica2014 posted:
  08.13.2013 - 9:53 pm
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Sponsors:
Junior Johnson: B&L Motors/Brushy Mountain Motors
http://www.floridastockcars.com/gallery3/v/Beach/Junior+Johnson+-+1955.jpg.html
Dick Joslin: Inland Buick Co./Dynaflow
http://www.floridastockcars.com/gallery3/v/Beach/Dick+Joslin_s+NASCAR+GN+Buick+in+1955+ready+to+go+from+the+street+to+the+beach+_Joslin+Collection_.jpg.html


  5.   NazRacePhan posted:
  10.04.2013 - 11:17 am
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Anyone know why Fireball Roberts was DQ?


  6.   NazRacePhan posted:
  10.04.2013 - 11:18 am
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2 11th place starters


  7.   Anonymous posted:
  03.09.2015 - 1:19 pm
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Fireball had illegal push rods, they had been ground down some minuscule
amount. But that was all it took to make the car not stock.

Fireball's crew chief that day was the legendary Red Voit.


  8.   Anonymous posted:
  12.24.2015 - 9:12 am
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NASCAR ran both a Modified Sportsman and a Sportsman race prior to this.

The Modifed-Sportsman race was won by Banjo Matthews in a 1940 Ford
Modified, followed by Earl Moss, Bill Widenhouse, Milton Hartluff and
Herb Thomas. The race was called after 76 miles because of a wreck and
the fact that the course was crowded with spectators.

Speedy Thompson wont the 100 mile Sportsman race followed by Richard
Blackwell, Fireball Roberts, Lee Bliss and Bill Myers.


  9.   Siple posted:
  02.07.2018 - 9:28 pm
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Ken Fisher's sponsor was Hamburg Delivery.


  10.   Phil McCaig posted:
  12.20.2018 - 4:21 pm
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Fireball won the 500 in a Buick of all things and had pushrods "not
stock length". Well, that's racing. Rules are rules. What do we have
without rules?

I would love to know what advantage, if any, the modified pushrods would
have provided.


  11.   Dan posted:
  12.20.2018 - 7:44 pm
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#10 - In no way, shape or form was this "the 500". That race didn't
exist until 4 years after this one.


  12.   Corey posted:
  12.20.2018 - 8:14 pm
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@10 Fireball did win the 500, but that was in 1962 driving a Pontiac.


  13.   ScottB posted:
  06.16.2019 - 11:34 pm
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A popular young driver was denied a big win in this race when he was
DQ'ed and placed last when his car failed post-race inspection.

His name was Fireball Roberts, and he's in the Hall of Fame now.


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