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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.07.2007 - 8:41 pm
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An the race with Junior Johnson's infamous yellow Banana car. Fred
Lorenzen's yellow #26 didn't really fit the tech specs but NASCAR let
them run anyway. He was doing well, even leading 24 laps before a crash
destroyed the car.

I wonder why Fred Lorenzen drove for Junior Johnson in this race instead
of Holman-Moody, they decide not to enter or something?


  2.   Anonymous posted:
  12.28.2008 - 5:49 pm
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nofactoryfords


  3.   hyltonfan08 posted:
  01.23.2009 - 6:16 pm
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Fred Lorenzen's sponsor was Holly Farms.


  4.   Gary posted:
  08.28.2010 - 11:45 am
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I was 14 when I saw this race. Some of my memories: Lee Roy Yarbrough's
(sp?) purple Dodge wasn't allowed to start because it was found to be
"too low." Lester Maddox, the Georgia governor, said the "Gentlemen,
start our engines!" thing. At the end of the race, it was a duel between
Petty and Buddy Baker. On Baker's last pit stop, Ray Fox fell over the
pit wall backwards as Buddy pulled out. Beautiful, sunny day.


  5.   Anonymous posted:
  03.25.2011 - 3:08 pm
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"I wonder why Fred Lorenzen drove for Junior Johnson in this race
instead of Holman-Moody, they decide not to enter or something?"

Ford pulled out of NASCAR because they felt NASCAR's rules favored the
Mopar gang. With no factory support, John Holman approached Junior and
asked if Junior would build them a car to use at Atlanta. A little while
later, Bill France came to Junior and asked him if he could do anything
to help get Ford to come back into NASCAR. Junior built the radical
"Banana", and when it did so well in the race, Bill France was able to
convince Ford to come back.


  6.   Eric Pickel posted:
  01.29.2014 - 9:51 pm
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Does anyone know why David Pearson failed to qualify for this race? Was
he just too slow or was there something illegal with his car? David
Pearson would be the last person I'd expect to see fail to qualify for a
Grand National race, especially in 1966.


  7.   Terry Maynard posted:
  10.08.2014 - 12:12 pm
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Pearson's car owner Cotton Owens withdrew the car after inspectors
discovered a cable that was designed to lower the front end of the car
during the race and instructed him to remove it. He refused to fix the
car and pulled it from the race because he felt that NASCAR was allowing
other cars to race that were blatantly in violation of the rules.
(Turner and Lorenzen)


  8.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  09.14.2015 - 11:07 am
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Note: Point standings after this race:
1) David Pearson = 25736 points
2) James Hylton = 23746
3) Richard Petty = 18276
4) Paul Goldsmith = 18044
5) Henley Gray = 17026
6) Wendell Scott = 16672
7) Bobby Allison = 16468
8) Neil Castles = 15924
9) J.T. Putney = 15292
10) Elmo Langley = 14726
11) John Sears = 14574
12) Sam McQuagg = 13522
13) Ned Jarrett = 12700
14) Buck Baker = 11400
15) Cale Yarborough = 11300
16) Clyde Lynn = 11080
17) Marvin Panch = 10710
18) G.C. Spencer = 10628
19) Jim Paschal = 10606
20) Buddy Baker = 9890


  9.   Rob posted:
  01.19.2017 - 10:35 pm
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Wendell Scott qualified through the consolation race and ended up with a
fine seventh place run in the main.


  10.   Rob posted:
  02.29.2020 - 7:26 am
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Photos from the race verify that Buddy Baker drove a 65 Dodge Coronet.


  11.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.30.2020 - 12:55 pm
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Sponsor:
#43 Richard Petty- GTX Plymouth

Lorenzen's "Banana" got all the attention but at the end of the day it
was King Richard and the traditional Petty Blue #43 Plymouth who reigned
supreme. Petty won the race with this as the first of his six career
wins at Atlanta.


  12.   ScottB posted:
  07.30.2020 - 5:42 pm
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Outside of the Daytona speedweeks, this race may have been the pinnacle
of "creative engineering" in NASCAR.


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