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  1.   Roger A Puryear posted:
  01.01.2005 - 11:52 pm
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Thanks for your site. I found 2 seat cushions (Charlotte Motor
Speedway...World 600 and National 500)when I bought a house in '93. I
finally got around to researching 1 of them. The person had wrote in
black marker...Oct 20th and 5 drivers and their car numbers, as well as
putting an asterisks by National 500.
Turns out it was the 1968 National 500 in which Glotzback started 1st
and won. The names were the starting five. Thanks for the help, Roger


  2.   hyltonfan08 posted:
  01.23.2009 - 6:32 pm
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Paul Goldsmith's sponsor was Valleydale Meats.


  3.   Sébastien posted:
  07.27.2009 - 12:27 pm
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Robbins #32 sponsor was Welch Motors


  4.   18fan posted:
  03.01.2011 - 6:19 pm
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This was Chargin' Charlie's first win.


  5.   MarkM posted:
  09.12.2014 - 9:38 pm
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The first NASCAR Grand National, (Sprint Cup), race I attended, at the
age of seven.


  6.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  04.02.2015 - 7:58 pm
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Note: The qualifying result are now available.


  7.   simonracer posted:
  04.02.2015 - 8:30 pm
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Is there any information about the Carl Parsons that qualified A.J.
Foyt's car?


  8.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  04.03.2015 - 7:48 am
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A page for this driver will be created on RR shortly. Here is his some
info for the lineup.

Note: Carl Parsons (a mechanic of the team from Detroit, MI) drove the
car #11 in qualifying but A.J. Foyt drove the car in the race.

Note: Eddie Yarboro #50 initially qualified in 35th position was
withdraw and all drivers behind him in qualifying lineup won a line
position. Example Neil Castles #06 (initially 37th) started 35th;
Wendell Scott #34 (initially 39th) started 37th; and so on.



  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.22.2018 - 6:19 pm
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Dodge finishes 1-2 courtesy of Charlie Glotzbach and Paul Goldsmith
while David Pearson finishes third. This race took place the same
weekend that the Ford vs. Dodge rivalry hit the big screen with the
release of the movie "Bullitt" with its famous car chase pitting a Dodge
Charger against the titular hero's played by Steve McQueen in a Ford
Mustang.


  10.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.27.2018 - 1:52 pm
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This was country music singer Marty Robbins' second career Cup start and
his only one of 1968. Robbins' first superspeedway Cup appearance saw
him come home a respectable 12th. While he was well short of victory
lane Robbins would find himself #1 not long after this race as his
record single "I Walk Alone" was climbing up the country charts at the
time and would soon top them three weeks later.


  11.   nascarvd/racing-reference.info posted:
  04.28.2020 - 11:21 am
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Note: A.J. Foyt #11 was relieved by Bud Moore during the race.


  12.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.09.2020 - 10:10 am
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Sponsor:
#61 Hoss Ellington- Wallace in 68
(Based off this pick of Hoss in the garage
https://twitter.com/smylemedia/status/1329047580060377088/photo/1 )

Ellington swapped out his usual Ellington Insulation branding for a
political sponsorship on his 1967 Mercury in this one. For context this
race was run two weeks before the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election with
the Wallace here being third party candidate George Wallace, then the
well-known former governor of Alabama , who was running for the American
Independent Party against Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Hubert
Humphrey. Nixon won the election with an edge in the popular vote and a
large advantage in the Electoral College but Wallace would win several
Southern states; becoming the last third party candidate to date to win
electoral votes.


  13.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.09.2020 - 3:05 pm
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Sponsor:
#11 A.J. Foyt- East Tenn. Motor Co.

This was Supertex's fourth and final Cup start of the year and the only
one where his car finished, he and Little Bud Moore brought the #11 home
tenth.


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