Trevor Bayne

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this is Trevor Bayne

winning the 2011 Daytona 500

being just 19 years old...

what next?

# 21 Mercury

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first thing 19 year old Daytona winner Trevor Bayne yelled out  bounding from his car,

This is insane!!

to be in this situation and with the No. 21 car,

right where it belongs, in victory lane.

of course he revered to the legendary star David Pearson,

here in his #21 Mercury way back in 1972 

#3 Chevy

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hard to believe it has been 10 years

Musclecarblog.tumbler has a great focus on late 60's high performance musclecars, and Mopars particularly

Of course I love this R/T photo, I've got an R/T... and my last musclecar was a Superbee that looked exactly like the above R/T, with a bee on the grill instead of the rt.

For lots more great musclecar photos, and not just mopars: http://musclecarblog.tumblr.com

Possibly the only tucker to race is NASCAR

it's all written up, from Dan at Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/24/seeing-really-is-believing-a-tucker-did-indeed-race-in-nascar-and-we-found-the-photo-to-prove-it/

Smokey Yunick's early race cars

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

How they pave the high banks of Daytona

from http://whattayagonnado.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/paving-daytona-speedway-photos-quite-a-project-2/

1969 David Pearson #17 Holman Moody Ford Torino Cobra Talledega, is it the same car as the one in my banner?

Here's the original that I used for my banner above, it must be the following car... just different graphics due to circumstances

Holman Moody prepared Ford's first purpose-built NASCAR racer, the Torino Talledega, for Pearson, who won 11 races and his third championship.

Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr has a lot of cool stuff!

An enclosed transporter made from a fire truck, not the first I've seen! Les made one http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/68-ford-transporter-aint-that-cool-i.html

An Edsel racing Baja.. amazing

Above is the James Garner race team

from http://prova275.tumblr.com/ Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr

15 minutes of NASCAR at the 1972 Southern 500 in Darlington

David Pearson in his 429ci Mercury and Bobby Allison in his 427ci Monte Carlo featured



Via: http://www.bangshift.com/blog/15-Minutes-in-Vintage-NASCAR-Heaven-Darlington-1972.html

What it would be like to catch a taxi in Chicago, it it was a NASCAR stocker

Be sure to see minute 1:26 if the beginning bores you.

Via Attu: http://attuworld.com/cars/taxi-in-downtown-chicago.html

Dale jr

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very emotional for all

Dale jr winning the nationwide race at Daytona

in the # 3 wrangler car

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Richmond 400

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Kyle Bush taking the win from Jeff Gordon

the two dominant drivers

under the floodlights of Richmond

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Plymouth Superbird

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Plymouth Superbirds

Make an entrance, don't just show up.

Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR Dickies 500, 2009... the Chevrolet Camaro SS pace car arrived at a race in style.
In a Chinook helicopter.
As a salute to US military veterans, the monster double-rotor chopper touched down by the side of track, releasing the Camaro driven by NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, who is not only a US Marine Corps colonel, but also holds a Texas Motor Speedway season ticket and piloted the shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station in July.

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

King of Daytona

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A big day at Daytona today

good excuse to paint 7 times winner Richard Petty

and his awesome '75 Dodge Charger

Nixon had race cars over to the white house, and fired up Richard Petty's and Mario Andretti's race cars

http://sca.gmu.edu/exhibit/atkins_1.htm

If you want to click on it for the full size and read the whole thing, that is the best way to get all teh info, but simply put, Jackie Stewart and his Lola Chevy, a dragster, Richard Petty's 1971 Road Runner stock car, Mario Andretti's Indy car were there, in the White House drive way.

Petty and Andretti fired up their cars. Wow, that would have been great to experience!

Others there, Swede Savage, Dan Gurney, Penske, Posey, Donohue and Graham Hill

From the Nixon Library:

515 to 527 pm Sept 21 1971 White House

The President viewed an exhibition of race cars. He was accompanied by race car driver Mario Andretti, winner of the 1969 Indianapolis 500 and member of the President's Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
The President spoke briefly to the owners and drivers of the cars:

James Lee, owner

Richard Petty, owner/driver

Andy Granatelli, owner

Carl Hass, owner

Jackie Stewart, driver

535 to 645 pm
The President hosted a reception for automobile racing figures.

from http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1971/042%20September%2021-30%201971.pdf just page 3, and Appendix D actually doesn't list the racers, it says they were all issued invitations verbally and this no comprehensive list was made

See a photo of it on page 76 of "Cars of the King" http://books.google.com/books?id=Txbx3Y2mDL4C&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=1971+white+house+race+cars&source=bl&ots=sSwEUIdUS_&sig=ELJG5IhIK1YMdpjWObWP3vV8SzA&hl=en&ei=GZtiS_e9GY-ssgO_3rCdAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=1971%20white%20house%20race%20cars&f=false