Miscellaneous Fairgrounds photos from the sixties

All photos by Mark Gregory

1967 Nashville 400 - July 29, 1967

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  Front row - Richard Petty and Dick Hutcherson
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  Back half of the grid
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  Positions 9-20.
  Friday Hassler (39), Elmo Langley (64), John Sears (4), Neil Castles (06), Coo Coo Marlin (04),
  Clyde Lynn (20), Henley Gray (97), Walter Wallace (91), Earl Brooks (76), George Davis (07), Wayne Smith (38), and Don Biederman (94)
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  A better view of the back half of the field. Other cars visible on the outside row are Buck Baker (88), George England (51),
  Bill Siefert (45), Ed Negre (8), Paul Holt in the yellow #01, and last row outside is Jack Harden in Miss Betty Lilly's #24
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  Front row on the pace lap.
  It was very hard shooting color film in questionable lighting conditions in the sixties.
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  The field goes through turns one and two
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  The pace car leads the field through three and four
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  Jack Harden's Betty Lilly Ford on the trailer after the race
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  Elmo Langley
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  Richard Petty's race-winning Plymouth headed back to the the hauler
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  This is the same view of the Petty Plymouth the field had during the 1967 Nashville 400
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  Dick Hutcherson's Bondy Long Ford on the hauler after the race. Hutch finished 11th
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  Roy Tyner's Chevrolet on the trailer. Tyner finished 19th after having a wheel bearing fail.
  

1968 Nashville 400 - July 27, 1968

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  Front of grid - Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, David Pearson
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  Richard Petty in the rare white-roof Plymouth
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  Bobby Allison
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  Front row is ready
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  Looking in the window of Petty's Plymouth
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  The first four rows - Allison, Petty, Pearson, Isaac, Langley, Hylton, Spencer, Castles
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  The front row passes the stands on the pace lap
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  Row 2
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  Row 3
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  The pace car leads the field through turn 4
  

1967 Southern 300 - October 1, 1967

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  Jimmy Griggs started 4th. That's Coo Coo Marlin and Red Farmer up ahead.
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  The first four cars follow the pace car through turn one
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  The front two rows on the pace lap. That's Marty Robbins starting third.
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  The middle of the grid. George Bonee in the Hart Hastings red 14 is almost out of frame on the right,
  then Jack Marlin in the Harpeth Motors #85, David Hill in the Crowell #48, and LJ Hampton in the 97 Dodge.
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  The back of the pack with Rhea Greenwell in the #32, Sherrill Harris in the 86, Alton Jones in 92, James Ham in 29, Bill Gregg in 402
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  The pace car driver has his hand in the air - that means one to go and the green will be out
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  The field coming off turn 4 headed to the green flag
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  Red Farmer leads Griggs and Marlin early in the race
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  Coo Coo headed to the pits
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  Coo Coo and Friday Hassler pit while George Bonee passes on the track
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  Coo Coo is out of the race, while Sherrill Harris and Marty Robbins make pit stops (yes, they pitted on the quarter mile track)
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  Red Farmer has hit the wall and broken the right front suspension.
  Both Harpeth Fords and Walter Wallace are already out of the race, their cars parked in the infield.
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  Gary Myers' car on the trailer after finishing 9th
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  James Ham finished 12th in this car. Look at all the Cadet cars on trailers in the background.
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  Chattanooga's Bob Burcham finished 2nd to Freddy Fryar in this 1957 Chevy.

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