How Many days to the Daytona 500?

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What year is this from? It looks like it's around 2010 (give or take a few years) but that Budweiser logo looks like it's from the late 80s.
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This one had me scratching my head too, then I noticed the SCCA Club Racing decal and the Hoosier tires.
 
Charland with that stogie clenched in his teeth reminds me of the old Jim Croce song "Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy."

He'll do a hunnerd-twenty mile an hour
Smilin' at the camera
With a toothpick in his mouth...
 
Bob said:
Charland with that stogie clenched in his teeth reminds me of the old Jim Croce song "Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy."

He'll do a hunnerd-twenty mile an hour
Smilin' at the camera
With a toothpick in his mouth...
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"But every Sunday afternoon he is a dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet ..."
 
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Vollstedt’s 1968 car. That’s Rolla standing beside his car at Langhorne Speedway.

“Puke Hollow was, by far, the worst corner I ever drove,” says Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner who always dreaded running Langhorne. Three-time Indy champ Bobby Unser agrees. “Langhorne was the kind of place where, the bigger your huevos, the faster you went. I raced all over the world, and that was the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. Nobody liked it, and the ones who said they did were lying.”

http://www.motortrend.com/news/legend-puke-hollow-remembering-langhorne-speedway/

The driver in the picture is Jim Malloy, a Northwest super modified legend from the era before the Sneva brothers and the rest of us. Sadly, he succumbed to injuries suffered during a 200 mph practice crash at Indianapolis in 1972.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Malloy

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One of Malloy’s CAMRA cars ... built by his brother Jerry.
 
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Vollstedt’s 1968 car. That’s Rolla standing beside his car at Langhorne Speedway.
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That place held 60,000 people. That would be a good crowd at a Phillies or Eagles game. Probably about what Pocono gets now for a cup race.
 
Keith Kunz shows up at The Chili Bowl with his fleet ...

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“Kunz cars have been the ones to beat to win the Chili Bowl for several years, so it’s no real surprise that in the just concluded Indiana Midget Speedweek, Kunz’s cars did well.

How well? In five races on five different Hoosier State tracks, Kunz’s five cars were winners in the hands of five different drivers!”

Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell drove Kunz cars at the 2017 Chili Bowl ... Bell won the race.
 
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Larson's been seen at Port Royal, my "home" dirt track (50 miles away) when they make the PA-DE swing. I hear he was very accommodating with the fans. I wasn't there, but lots of cup drivers have raced there. Dave Blaney I'm pretty sure won there multiples. Smoke raced there. Others... These threads are fun I learn a ton.
 
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Keith Kunz shows up at The Chili Bowl with his fleet ...

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“Kunz cars have been the ones to beat to win the Chili Bowl for several years, so it’s no real surprise that in the just concluded Indiana Midget Speedweek, Kunz’s cars did well.

How well? In five races on five different Hoosier State tracks, Kunz’s five cars were winners in the hands of five different drivers!”

Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell drove Kunz cars at the 2017 Chili Bowl ... Bell won the race.
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Mike Curb racing on the cars has had the winning car since 09-17 with Swindell racing and then Rusty Kuntz in 14 and then recently with Kieth Kuntz.
http://www.mikecurb.com/auto/auto_racing.cfm
 
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