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page 315, After the body was removed…: Cansler, “World's Toughest Road Race,” 22.
page 315, a few practice runs outside town: Edelstein, Full Throttle, 62.
page 315, averaging ninety-five miles an hour across: Ibid, page 316, “I have a wife and kids at home”: Ibid, page 317, Curtis Turner was also pickpocketed: Ibid., 61. page 321, “No way,” France said: Larry Fielden, Tim Flock, Race Driver (Surfside Beach, S.C.: Galfield Press, 1991), 94.
page 322, he dispatched his number two guy, Bill Tuthill: Neely, Daytona USA, 65. page 322, would likely fall to pieces if pushed: Fielden, Forty Years of Stock Car Racing, vol. 1, 20.
page 323, France envisioned a whole new future: Ibid, page 324, France… bought a secondhand Plymouth sedan for seventeen hundred
dollars: Edelstein, Full Throttle, 83.
page 324, In truth…: Granger, “1950 Southern 500.” page 324, nearly died from a bad batch of Mexican food: Russ Catlin, “Meet Madman Johnny Mantz,” Speed Age, July 1951.
page 325, the alarm clock bomb created havoc: Leo Levine, Ford, the Dust and the Glory: A Racing History, 1901—1967 (Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers, 2001), 199.
page 325, so much cash… peach baskets: Edelstein, Full Throttle, 83.
page 325, “You know what can win this race?” Levine, Ford, the Dust and the Glory, 200.
page 325, “There won't be one of these cars at the finish”: Ibid., 199.
page 327, According to the story that France…: Granger, American Racing Classics, 120.
page 328, Vogt, Byron, and the other top-five finishers… formally protested: Jensen, Cheating, 38.
page 328, “anything Red wanted checked”: Neely, Daytona USA, 67. page 330, Vogt received a peacemaking offer from Bill France: Interview with George Moore.
18. NASCAR is here to stay: “Like sex, the atom bomb and ice cream”
Information on NASCAR's first race in Detroit is from William Jeanes, “France and the Motor City,” American Racing Classics (Concord, N.C.: Griggs Publishing; Talladega, Ala.: International Motorsports Hall of Fame, Apr. 1992). Information on NASCAR, ISC, and Speedway Motorsports Inc. is from www.nascar.com, www.iscmotorsports.com, and www.speedwaymotorsports.com.
page 333, Lord Calvert… was “my co-pilot”: Interview with Billy Watson; and Henry “Smokey” Yunick, Best Damn Garage in Town: The World According to Smokey, 4 vols. (Holly Hill, Fla.: Carbon Press, 2001), vol. 2, 26.
page 333, “No liquor in the pits”: Yunick, Best Damn Garage in Town, vol. 2, 26.
page 333, In 1952, a young boy sitting with his father: Brock Yates, Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004), 42.
page 334, “motorized lemmings”: Ibid., 117.
page 335, “Doesn't sound like a bad idea”: Bob Zeller, “Bruton and the Two Bills: A 50-Year Rivalry,” Car and Driver, July 2003.
page 335, France… considered Smith “a pain”: Interview with Buz McKim (written replies to questions from the author).
page 335, Sam Nunis… ran short of cash: Interview with Billy Watson.
page 336, “Gentlemen, before I have this union stuffed down my throat”: Dan Pierce, “The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions,” Southern Cultures, 2001.
page 337, More than fifty years after…: Zeller, “Bruton and the Two Bills.”
19. “I had to start making a living”
page 338, the only race in which he didn't superstitiously touch the track: Kim Chapin, Fast as White Lightning: The Story of Stock Car Racing (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998), 78.
page 339, allegedly shoving Fonty aside: Henry “Smokey” Yunick, Best Damn Garage in Town: The World According to Smokey, 4 vols. (Holly Hill, Fla.: Carbon Press, 2001), vol. 2, 274.
page 340, “I would have protested even if it was my mother”: Frank Ahrens, “Lee Petty Was a Driving Force,” Washington Post, Apr. 11, 2000.
page 343, “It's a shame about Roy”: Charles Duncan, “Hall Won First Time He Raced at Daytona,” Dawson News& Advertiser, May 8, 2002.
page 343, an outbreak of poisoned moonshine in Atlanta in 1951: Jess Carr, The Second Oldest Profession: An Informal History of Moonshining in America (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1972), 133.
page 346, DePaolo was purpousely vague about… Holman's exact role: Leo Levine, Ford, the Dust and the Glory: A Racing History, 1901—1967 (Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers, 2001), 216-217.
page 346, “Merlin”… “the granddaddy of NASCAR mechanics”: Yunick, Best Damn Garage in Town, vol. 2, 275.
page 346, “couldn't handle the bullshitting…”: Ibid., 113.
page 349, [Red Byron's death]: Interviews with Bev and Betty Byron, page 350, “I'm spending more than I'm making”: Interview with Raymond Parks, page 350, “I loved racing…”: Rick Minter, “Lost Tracks of Time: Some of Georgia's Storied Racetracks Are Fading into Memory and Disrepair,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 23, 2003.
page 351, “the other man of Daytona”: Eddie Samples, “Garhofa's Raymond Dawson Parks,” Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association's Pioneer Pages 5, no. 1 (Feb. 2002).
page 352, “Money isn't everything…”: Kevin Conley, “NASCAR's New Track,” New Yorker, Nov. 2, 2004.
page 352, “wasn't in this world anymore”: Ibid, page 352, “It's all about marketing”: Viv Bernstein, “Good Looks and Good Drivers Join to Complete a NASCAR Package,” New York Times, Apr. 15, 2005.
pages 352-353, “40 extremely mobile billboards…”: Steve Lopez, “Babes, Bordeaux& Billy Bobs: How I Learned to Love NASCAR,” Time, May 31,1999.
page 353, NASCAR's revenues average more than three billion dollars: Leslie Stahl, transcript of “The Real NASCAR Family,” 60 Minutes (CBS News), Oct. 6, 2005.
page 353, Forbes magazine's list of richest Americans: Susan Oliver, “Off to the Races! How the Frances of NASCAR Built a Major Fortune in Stock-Car Racing,” Forbes, July 3, 1995.
page 353, “NASCAR got this big by being a dictatorship”: Liz Clarke, “NASCAR Boom Puts South in Rearview,” Washington Post, Nov. 20, 2005.
Epilogue: This is what NASCAR has become…
page 357, “It has not come to the attention of eastern Alabama…”: Steve Lopez, “Babes, Bordeaux& Billy Bobs: How I Learned to Love NASCAR,” Time, May 31, 1999.
page 357, In the 1990s… spectators were killed: Ames Alexander, “Awareness Grows,” Charlotte Observer, Nov. 11, 2001.
page 359, $2.8 billion TV contract… jump to $4.8 billion in 2007: “NASCAR Signs New TV deal,” Associated Press, Jan. 16, 2006.
page 361, “Fans get a few beers in ‘em, the Dixie comes out”: Scott Huler, A Little Bit Sideways: One Week inside a NASCAR Winston Cup Team (Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing, 1999), 35.
page 361, stock car racing was “kind of like country music…”: Ibid., 45.
page 362, “… Hunk.… They're all good-looking”: Viv Bernstein, “Good Looks and Good Drivers Join to Complete a NASCAR Package,” New York Times, Apr. 15, 2005.
page 362, “the old Southeastern redneck heritage…”: Lorenzo Lopez, “NASCAR Still Proud of Its Heritage,” Raleigh News& Observer, Feb. 17, 2006.
page 363, “I don't think anyone can call it just a Southern sport…”: “Tony Stewart, Goin' Back to Cali,” Tony Stewart press release (True Speed Communication), Feb. 22, 2006.
page 364, “They are everywhere these Yankees…”: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie (electronic edition: docsouth.unc.edu/chesnut/maryches.html), 379.
PRIMARY INTERVIEWS
Sarah Atha, Mike Bell, Dick Berggren, Betty Byron, Beverly Byron, Nell Byron, Billy Carden, Betty Carlan, J. B. Day, Willavene Day, Chris Economacki, Dewain Edwards, Sam Edwards, Frances Flock, Ray Fox, Steve Gassaway, Virginia Gassaway, Peter Golenbock, Steve Green, Ronnie Hall, Charlie Jenkins, Buz McKim, George Moore, Jimmy Mosteller, Frank Mundy, Cotten Owens, Raymond Parks, Violet Parks, Virgil Parks, Gordon
Pirkle, Eddie Samples, Virginia Samples, Lucille Shirley, Marion Shirley, Ralph Shirley, Louise Smith, David Sosebee, Sarah Sose-bee, Vaudelle Sosebee, Buddy Starr, Jimmy Summerour, Mitzi Teague, Terry Terrell, Tom Vogt, Bill Ward, Billy Watson, June Wendt, PL A. “Humpy” Wheeler, Rex White, Suzanne Wise.
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