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  1.   Don Capps posted:
  08.31.2007 - 3:39 pm
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It was "Petty Engineering Co." at the time and the car owner for the No.
41, 42, and 43 cars duringt the 1964 season was Lee Petty.


  2.   Don Capps posted:
  09.01.2007 - 3:28 pm
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I recently did a complete review of the 1964 season using the materials
at Appalachian State University -- thanks to the curator of the Stock
Car Racing Special Collection at the Belk Library, Suzanne Wise -- and
its scoring was a special focus of this review. I used the issues of
Southern Motorsports Journal for this, as well as Southern Motoracing
when it began publishing in August 1964.

Scoring was done using a "base" number, that is the 25th position was
the base since anyone finishing lower than 25th recieved the same number
of points as 25th poisition. During the 1964 season, a total of 16
different points schemes were used.

Concord was awarded points on the "16" scale, first being 400 points,
dropping 16 points a position until 16 points for 25th position.

If interested, the points scheme for each 1964 GN event can be provided.


  3.   SK posted:
  12.27.2007 - 8:29 pm
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The last Grand National race in which Joe Weatherly led.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  05.31.2008 - 11:43 pm
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Last race for Jimmy Massey and he crashed on the opening lap

Also the debut for Toy Bolton. This was Bolton's only racce of the 1964
season but he'd return for three races in the 1966 season


  5.   WillG46 posted:
  04.19.2009 - 5:41 pm
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The first race of the 1964 season was in November of 1963, just a week
after the 1963 finale.


  6.   Anonymous posted:
  03.23.2014 - 10:52 pm
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This was a fairly straight forward race, except the track came apart and
it got extremely dusty.


  7.   rob posted:
  04.26.2016 - 9:20 am
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Pretty certain that Massey drove a 61 Chevy and not a 62 as listed. The
poor result and the impending change to a later model year eligibility (
once January 1964 hit, only 62-64 model years could run) might have
hastened the end of his big league career .


  8.   Anthony posted:
  09.08.2016 - 8:12 am
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Nothing like starting a season in November of the previous year!


  9.   Danish Pie posted:
  07.28.2018 - 7:40 am
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Hubert Westmoreland's last race as a car owner.
The first Southern 500 winning owner went out before his driver Jimmy
Massey could complete a lap. Ironically, as post 4 pointed out, this
would also be Massey's last race as a driver.


  10.   Nascarp posted:
  12.12.2020 - 5:00 pm
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The last race for a non Ford/Mercury for Bud Moore, a tradition which
would last until 2000.


  11.   Nascarp posted:
  12.12.2020 - 5:19 pm
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The last time a Bud Moore owned Pontiac competed. For the next 36 years,
it was Fords and Mercurys.


  12.   Rob posted:
  02.01.2021 - 9:25 am
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Honored to say that I saw the last win for "the Little Indian" at
Hillsborough a few weeks earlier. Joe almost pulled this one off.


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