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Talladega Quiz # 1

Dr. John Craft likes some of the questions that have been coming up in the posts over the past few weeks and decided to test us all with his own Quiz. What do you think? Want more of these? How about one a week if we can get enough contributors? Speak up and let me know.

 

So you think LeeRoy Yarbrough drove the 98 car all the time? Not so. Here is the question submitted by Dr. Craft, the answer will be provided next week:

Name the driver, the year and the race.

Richard

Some of my first and strongest memories from my childhood relate to cars. I still remember when things happened based on what car I was driving at the time. I grew up and lived in Iowa for nearly 40 years before moving to Southern California and now live in Tennessee. I was a Corvette fanatic for years but then re-discovered vintage American Muscle. My wife, Katrina, and I decided we wanted to focus on unique and rare muscle cars. After a lot of research we fell in love with the Ford Blue Oval Aero Cars. These were only built in 1969 and and aerodynamics became an important part of winning races. The only purpose of these limited production cars was to win NASCAR races using the Boss 429 and 427 power plants complimented with a special, wind cheating, aerodynamic body. The Ford Talladega and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II are terrific and historic cars. This site is devoted to these car and their owners past and present. We provide an Online Registry for recording the long term history and ownership of every remaining Talladega, Spoiler and Spoiler II.

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  1. From Wikipedia:
    Fred Lorenzen
    He came back in 1970, driving a Dodge Daytona prepared by Ray Fox in the World 600(now the Coca-Cola 600), but dropped out while leading on lap 252 of 400 due to engine issues, running in a few more events that year, including substituting for LeeRoy Yarbrough in the Junior Johnson #98 Ford Torino Talladega in that year’s Southern 500, as Yarbrough had a prior Indy car commitment.

  2. Elmo Langley drove the #98 on Sept. 7th. 1969 at Richmond Va. As he relieved LeeRoy durning the “Capital City 250 “

    1. Jason, every Thursday we will answer the previous week’s trivia question and try to post a new one for that week. Everyone’s help on providing questions and answers will be appreciated.

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