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  1.   biffle16 posted:
  02.07.2007 - 12:49 am
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Dale Earnhardt's 100th start.


  2.   b4il3y posted:
  10.04.2013 - 4:10 am
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Marcis has a great car this day.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.01.2016 - 12:34 pm
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Neil Bonnett records his first victory of 1981 in dramatic fashion as he
holds off Darrell Waltrip to win the Southern 500. The victory set the
stage for fair share of late season success...

This win was the only Winston Cup one for Bonnett at Darlington and the
first for he and the Wood Brothers after the #21 made the switch from
Mercury to Ford at the start of the 1981 season when the series' new
downsized cars were introduced. Before this race the Wood Brothers
hadn't won a race while fielding a Ford since Dan Gurney's win at
Riverside in 1968.


  4.   zuel660 posted:
  01.30.2018 - 8:09 pm
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Hoss Ellington with a 2 car effort here, & both Buddy Baker & David
Pearson finish in the top 10.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.12.2019 - 10:47 pm
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The #21 Ford Thunderbird that Bonnett won this race driving was one of
the Wood Brothers' potent Mercury Montegos that David Pearson had so
much success driving in the late 1970s, when NASCAR downsized its Cup
cars the Wood Brothers rebuilt the car as a smaller Ford Thunderbird and
it won several more races in the early 1980s with its new configuration.
Today the Thunderbird belongs to its sponsor Warner Hodgdon who has
loaned it out for a display at Daytona's Motorsports Hall of Fame of
America museum.


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