Anybody recognize this car?

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mitchum

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I've been told that the both the driver and the team were fairly well known and moderatly succesfull.

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Ran across this pic while I was looking for something on my Photobucket pages and thought ya'll might enjoy seeing it.
 
I kinda doubt that is even a NASCAR.

Is there a Lafayette anywhere outside of Louisiana? Note the tow truck, trailer and race car are not color matched..
Betsy;)
 
Betsy said:
Is there a Lafayette anywhere outside of Louisiana? Note the tow truck, trailer and race car are not color matched..Betsy;)
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Most of the time they dont.

Dark Blue - haul truck
Red - Trailler
White and Orange - racecar (blueish green and orange, last year)
 
Betsy said:
Is there a Lafayette anywhere outside of Louisiana?
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Lafayette, Alabama
Lafayette, California
Lafayette, Colorado
Lafayette, Georgia
Lafayette, Indiana
La Fayette, Kentucky
Lafayette, Minnesota
Lafayette, New Jersey
Lafayette, New York
Lafayette, Oregon
Lafayette, Tennessee

;)
 
Looks like

Kinda looks like one the Silver Fox used to drive, surely thats not the holman-moody racing shop.
 
Fred Lorenzen

That's my final answer. :)

The 28 in the background should give it away. ;)
 
AndyMarquisLIVE said:
That's my final answer. :)

The 28 in the background should give it away. ;)
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In regards to the 28.....I wonder if it was sitting out the season here?

After its glorious run at the beginning of the 1965 season, records show the car was later re-bodied as a 1966 Galaxie, was possibly used for testing at Daytona in December 1965. At the time, Ford was testing the 427 SOHC hemi engine in search of a competitor to the Chrysler 426-ci hemi engine. But NASCAR banned Ford’s engine unless the cars took on additional weight. Ford ordered its factory teams to boycott NASCAR races for the 1966 season.
The car became inactive and sat in the Holman-Moody garage. Fate then led chassis number 47 to Carol “Barney” Barnhardt’s ARCA series race team in Ohio. There it was driven by Howard “Shad” Wheeler during the 1967 campaign.
 
Clutch said:
In regards to the 28.....I wonder if it was sitting out the season here?

After its glorious run at the beginning of the 1965 season, records show the car was later re-bodied as a 1966 Galaxie, was possibly used for testing at Daytona in December 1965. At the time, Ford was testing the 427 SOHC hemi engine in search of a competitor to the Chrysler 426-ci hemi engine. But NASCAR banned Ford’s engine unless the cars took on additional weight. Ford ordered its factory teams to boycott NASCAR races for the 1966 season.
The car became inactive and sat in the Holman-Moody garage. Fate then led chassis number 47 to Carol “Barney” Barnhardt’s ARCA series race team in Ohio. There it was driven by Howard “Shad” Wheeler during the 1967 campaign.
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Link please?
 
I don't have a link on the 'net, but I do have Greg Fielden's book, Volume 3 of Forty Years of Stock Car Racing. The 1966 season and Ford's boycott is outlined starting on page 61.

Makes for very interesting reading.

'66 was also the year of the "Yellow Banana" of Junior Johnson.
 
That LaFayette in question is Mr. Purvis' Ford dealership in Fayetteville, NC.

The #17 is indeed a Pearson ride but the #28 in the background doesn't point to the identity because it was a 289 powered '66 Fairlane body on a set of shortened '57 Ford frame rails that was built by Jimmy Helms of Monroe NC that ran the dirt tracks around the CHarlotte-Monroe-Lancaster area. Judging by some of the comments it seems that some have not figured out that the cars and shop are 1/25th scale.
 
No, I said the #17 was a Pearson ride, not the #28. I am a friend of Dr. Craft and his is indeed the Daytona winning Lorenzen '65 Galaxie, but the #28 behind the fence is neither a '65 nor a Galaxie.

It is a model of one of my old friend's local dirt track cars and here is a better picture of the MODEL built by my brother. Lorenzen's Fairlane had a small bit of very light blue on the sail panel but this car was white and dark metallic blue.

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