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CORRECTED! Buddy Baker "200.447' champion spark plug vintage magazine ad

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Here's what it should have looked like from the beginning!!
apparently, the ad guys at champion didn't have a photo of the 200 run showing the Engineering Daytona, so they assumed incorrectly Baker was in his usual #6.
Corrected 200.447 Buddy Baker #88.jpg
 
Yup- that's the original (wrong car photo) ad.
 
Those old ads teach me more stuff every day. I didn't even know there WAS a 1970 Dodge Daytona. :)
 
Photon440 said:
Those old ads teach me more stuff every day. I didn't even know there WAS a 1970 Dodge Daytona. :)
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lol...... Shows you how much folks not into cars know about stuff like that!
 
I'll be working on fixing the Stock Car Racing cover with the "200" article in it. Stay tuned!
 
If anyone wants a LARGE file of the corrected Champion ad, good enough to enlarge, PM me with your email address. It's 16M, so if you can't handle a file that large, let me know the size you can and I can resize it down a little for you.

Happy New Year!
 
Actually, it was accomplished in the spring of 1970, with a '69 Daytona. BTW, the number was #88 on his car. I was there.
 
I live about 10 miles from Talladega Superspeedway. Years ago people would bring cars to the track in hopes of breaking or setting new speed records. I was just wondering why it seems no one attempts these feats anymore? Is no one interested in setting speed records anymore? Ive seen people set speed records there from a semi truck to a guy on roller skates. What`s up, people afraid of speed now?
 
Maybe people found better tracks for speed records, like Michigan or Daytona? I don't know, maybe nobody is crazy enough to beat the roller skate record. :)

As far as stock cars go, I don't think you'll see many records these days. The slowest cars on the 1987 Talladaga races would blow away the fastest of 2014, thanks to restrictor plates that cars have to use now.
 
I had just got back from my 2nd tour of duty in Vietnam. I was the deployed at an Air Base in Florida and went to both the Daytona 500 in February of 1970, as well as the tests at Talladega in March. By growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC, I was always involved with NASCAR. Being on a pit crew in '64, I knew most of the people in that circle. I kept in close contact with many of the car builders of that time (Ray Fox, Cotton Owens, Holman-Moody, etc) and ...luckily...found out about these tests. I was in the military at that time and not working for Chrysler or Goodyear or anybody, except Uncle Sam.
 
Hemi 354 said:
I had just got back from my 2nd tour of duty in Vietnam. I was the deployed at an Air Base in Florida and went to both the Daytona 500 in February of 1970, as well as the tests at Talladega in March. By growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC, I was always involved with NASCAR. Being on a pit crew in '64, I knew most of the people in that circle. I kept in close contact with many of the car builders of that time (Ray Fox, Cotton Owens, Holman-Moody, etc) and ...luckily...found out about these tests. I was in the military at that time and not working for Chrysler or Goodyear or anybody, except Uncle Sam.
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Did you take any photos?
Were you in the pits?

Man, talk about lucky!!!!!
 
Hemi 354 said:
I had just got back from my 2nd tour of duty in Vietnam. I was the deployed at an Air Base in Florida and went to both the Daytona 500 in February of 1970, as well as the tests at Talladega in March. By growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC, I was always involved with NASCAR. Being on a pit crew in '64, I knew most of the people in that circle. I kept in close contact with many of the car builders of that time (Ray Fox, Cotton Owens, Holman-Moody, etc) and ...luckily...found out about these tests. I was in the military at that time and not working for Chrysler or Goodyear or anybody, except Uncle Sam.
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Too much!
So cool Hemi 354!

SO COOL!
 
Daytona, yes. I was in the infield during the time those Daytona's and Superbird's were flying. Talladega--Unfortunately, No.
 
Hemi 354 said:
Daytona, yes. I was in the infield during the time those Daytona's and Superbird's were flying. Talladega--Unfortunately, No.
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I guess I'm a little confused. You said you were at Talladega on March 24th., 1970 for the 200 mph record run in an earlier posting, but then say "Talladega--Unfortunately, No." Can you clarify?
 
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