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  1.   Dan Jackett posted:
  03.01.2018 - 12:06 am
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First race of a 3 race weekend for the Grand National Division
(Altamont, Syracuse, and San Mateo)


  2.   NascarLeadLapPoints posted:
  04.11.2019 - 1:33 am
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Out of the 43 tracks Carl Kiekhaefer enter a car at, this was only track
he didn't get a top ten at


  3.   MSportRev posted:
  09.16.2019 - 8:50 am
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Margin of Victory: 1 lap +


  4.   Eric posted:
  05.05.2020 - 7:14 am
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John Dodd, Jr. was in a Hudson.


  5.   MSportRev posted:
  07.29.2020 - 1:03 pm
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A few interesting notes based on this newspaper clipping.

Per the newspaper clipping, Lee Petty was in an Oldsmobile, not a Chrysler.

Charles Munsinger's crash is apparently what brought the race to an end,
but since he is not listed as a driver here, my best guess is that he
was driving in relief for Don Oldenberg as Oldenberg's crash is the
closest in the lap count to where the newspaper says the race was called..

According to the clipping, the race was called on lap 160. Again, my
best guess is that is when the race-ending crash took place and the
field circulated under caution for several laps until it was officially
called.

https://twitter.com/RacingSCRL/status/1288330994270056450/photo/1


  6.   Canadianfan posted:
  07.29.2020 - 2:36 pm
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@5

Lee Petty being in an Oldsmobile doesn't really make sense though at
this time. Especially when he is in Chrysler products the rest of the
year and including the race before and the race held the next day. This
is an era when you had one maybe two cars for the entire year and in
many cases more than 1 year.


  7.   MSportRev posted:
  07.29.2020 - 3:53 pm
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@6, I know that, just was going by the newspaper clipping. It may have
been trying to reference 1st, 2nd, and 4th as being in Oldsmobiles. But
it lists the first three finishers, the fact that they are all from N.C.
and then says "All the Tar Heels drove Oldsmobiles."

Jimmie Lewallen is also a Tar Heel and also in an Oldsmobile.


  8.   possum posted:
  07.29.2020 - 8:07 pm
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@6 - of course, it's possible he was in someone else's car. If his own
car was being repaired borrowing someone else's and painting a #42 on it
would be a quick way to make the race. (that said, Petty had virtually
no attachment to the #42 and happily drove cars with other numbers on
many occasions, so it's not that likely he'd bother to renumber someone
else's car).


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