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  1.   Potato posted:
  07.11.2006 - 3:50 am
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The great Buck Baker's last start.


  2.   myself posted:
  05.11.2007 - 4:45 pm
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Very nearly 5 in a row for Cale!


  3.   Nuck Chorris posted:
  10.27.2007 - 12:19 pm
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Hoss Ellington's first win as an owner.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.02.2008 - 5:51 pm
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Last NASCAR start for Indy 500 winner Gordon Johncock


  5.   Nuck Chorris posted:
  01.09.2008 - 3:04 am
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Last race with a driver from the first NASCAR race in 1949 in the field.
Buck Baker started 38th and finished 24th


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.21.2008 - 7:03 pm
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Hoss' team gets win #1 in their first ever race using the #1


  7.   myself posted:
  01.27.2012 - 11:03 am
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Cale in an Allison sandwich


  8.   Dozierthegreat posted:
  07.07.2012 - 1:36 pm
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Skip Manning was running a Gatorade sponsor at this race in the #92


  9.   J Louis Frey posted:
  08.16.2013 - 10:22 pm
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Sports car star Al Holbert drove in Bill Elliott's car before engine
trouble.


  10.   Unser1 posted:
  01.18.2014 - 9:24 pm
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Sponsor:
#59 Buck Baker- Hadacol / Smith's Auto Parts


  11.   Anonymous posted:
  06.08.2014 - 8:22 pm
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A.J. Foyt quit the Hoss Ellington team in the early stages of the race,
telling reporters he'd rather build his own cars than drive cars that
are "never prepared." The frustrated Foyt quipped that he "couldn't keep
that car in a 10 acre bryar patch." Donnie Allison won the race driving
Foyt's backup car in a last minute entry.


  12.   mkl62 posted:
  02.07.2015 - 12:25 pm
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Donnie Allison wins. During his career, he won 10 races. Which # race
win was this? After the 1979 Daytona 500 fiasco, he would never win
another, though I feel that he would won have if Darrell Waltrip &
Richard Petty had crashed on the last lap of the Rebel 500 in Darlington
that April.


  13.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.21.2015 - 10:27 am
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This was Allison's first victory since Talladega back in 1971 and his
only one of the 1976 season. It was the seventh of Donnie's ten wins.


  14.   Bill P. posted:
  06.05.2015 - 6:24 am
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Worked for owner Johnny Ray that race. After a weekend of miscues it
became apparent that Rutherford could not tell what the was doing. The
car had come from Banjo's and was supposedly "set up" and did not need
to work on the chassis. J.R.,before he took the green to qualify he
stopped and backed up a lap as he was screaming for more wedge. After 8
turns down on the left rear he did put the car in the show. The decision
was made to check the chassis and the front end settings were backwards
and the car had qualified with 4 inches of bite. Not kidding.

As the race progressed Rutherford wanted 4 turns down on the right
rear,which made no sense. The spin out that followed did not eliminate
the car from the race but the engine failure down the back stretch did.
Engines back then were not turned as tight as today. The tachometer was
pegged to the maximum. He had clutched the motor.

If you cannot stand the heat just park it. Don't destroy good equipment
just to save face.


  15.   Anonymous posted:
  10.29.2015 - 1:15 pm
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Donnie was driving a Chevy Monte Carlo at a time at which most Chevy
teams were using the Laguna on the big tracks.


  16.   rob posted:
  07.06.2016 - 6:50 am
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To #14. Always felt Rutherford was the weak link to a very strong Smokey
Yunick Chevy effort at Daytona in 1963.


  17.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.25.2018 - 3:20 pm
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David Pearson had to get out of his #21 Purolater Mercury in this race.
Neil Bonnett, an early retiree in this one, hopped into the Wood
Brothers special as a relief driver to help out as the car went on to a
top-10 finish. It was something of an early bird cameo in the #21 for
Bonnett as he would later replace Pearson as the team's Cup driver in
early 1979.


  18.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.13.2019 - 10:07 am
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Donnie Allison won four races driving for Hoss Ellington but said this
one was the most satisfying of them. He was justifiably quite proud of
the win after DiGard had fired him a year earlier and told him he didn't
have the skill necessary to race in Cup anymore. After the race Donnie
tracked down DiGard owner Bill Gardner and punched him in the chest
while saying "I'm just the SOB that couldn't drive, remember?"


  19.   rateus posted:
  02.15.2021 - 5:17 pm
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Henley Gray qualified for Bill Dennis.


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