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hawk22
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 298 Location: Northern Virginia
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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:43 pm Post subject: 1969 Permatex 300 |
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No longer a modified/sportsman race. Just sportsman cars up to a ten year old body style. 1961 Fords were very popular. This was the year Don McTavish was killed (66 Mercury Comet) . Details on Youtube. Not very pleasant to watch...
Model built from a "stock" AMT Ford Fairlane. Referred to as those "skinny"
Fairlanes by NASCAR folk. Not easy to get "period correct" Grand National tires under the wheel wells.
Was a two car race between Tiny Lund and LeeRoy. What appears to be "leftover"Grand National cars from 1966/67...
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Henryjint
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 1973 Location: NY State's Hudson Valley
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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Nicely done!!!!! _________________ Forum member since 10/25/2010 |
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Crime Dog
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 339
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that's fantastic. IMHO, one of the finest builds of that body style I've seen.
Unfortunately, that race was marred by the horrible McTavish crash, as you mentioned, which is a shame as it was an otherwise fantastic race.
I doubt that race would be allowed to continue in today's Nascar world, after a crash like that. |
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hawk22
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 298 Location: Northern Virginia
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Thanks!
Posted this one a little over a year ago but complements are always welcome.
I was a LeeRoy Yarbrough fan. Not only won this race but the Daytona 500 the next day.
A big Grand National star at the time. We still considered him as our local driver from Jacksonville. I was in Daytona that weekend for both races... |
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Crime Dog
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 339
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Those sportsmen races show up on youtube from time to time, I've watched the 67 race, pretty interesting stuff. The 69 race you referenced appeared to be a Wide World of Sports highlight film. And yes 61 Fords were popular, some big names in those race too, Goldsmith, Pasch, Roberts just to name a few. That was a race of have and have nots though. |
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TN Vols fan
Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 284 Location: Crossett, AR
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Great build, thanks for sharing it. Those old Fairlane's made great looking race car, even on the local level.
I remember that race, terrible accident. I was just a kid and remember them breaking in on TV. The announcer said something about young shouldn't watch. Being a young man of seven or eight years old, I watched. I remember standing in the middle of the living watching that horrible crash to this day, I'm 63 now. Sorry for this side track. _________________ "Many men fish all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" quote from The Compleat Angler, lzzak Walton 1654 |
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Henryjint
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 1973 Location: NY State's Hudson Valley
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Very nicely done!!! _________________ Forum member since 10/25/2010 |
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