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  1.   Randall Treadwell posted:
  01.25.2006 - 4:31 pm
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Track was not paved so race was only one on a "dirt" road course. Of
course you could say the beach races at Daytona were half natural surface.


  2.   Sunoco posted:
  04.12.2007 - 10:15 pm
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Chuck Stevenson takes his only win in his second and final start.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.20.2008 - 2:45 am
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Johnny Mantz, the winner of the first Southern 500, makes his final
NASCAR start. He finishes a strong third.


  4.   WillG_46 posted:
  03.16.2008 - 7:20 pm
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Indy 500 racer Chuck Stevenson wins his only NASCAR race.


  5.   Jim Thurman posted:
  09.21.2008 - 3:14 pm
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I talked to a driver in the race and he confirmed my suspicions, that
despite what has been written, Willow Springs was paved by the time this
race was held.


  6.   Cooper posted:
  03.27.2010 - 7:23 pm
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The controversy arises because Marvin Panch has quoted that the track
was paved, when it was run in 1956. The fact is, is that during the two
races at this track, the track used an oily-sandy dirt substance, that
took the form of a hard surface. Therefore it easy to confuse the two
substances.


  7.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  04.05.2011 - 10:08 am
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Mantz, a Hollywood stuntman, finished well for his first start in three
years.


  8.   Scott B posted:
  09.30.2013 - 12:39 pm
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Like many early West Coast races, this was a combined event for Grand
National and the Pacific Coast series (which would evolve into the
current K&N Pro Series West). This is why you see cars up to 5 years old
entered, instead of the usual 3 year limit for Grand National sanctioned
events.

Confusingly, it was the final race of the 1955 season for the Pacific
Coast points, but was race number three of the 1956 season for Grand
National, which started counting races toward the new season before the
calendar year changed.


  9.   Graham Clayton posted:
  02.22.2015 - 9:45 pm
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Only NASCAR starts for Len Fraker, Bill Stacy, Don Stanyer, Gordon
Campbell and Jim Sills.


  10.   simonracer posted:
  02.18.2017 - 7:06 am
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Here is some video of this race.

https://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/videos/137786


You can see why Panch thought it was a paved surface.


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