Take a moment to remember North Carolina native James "Bunkie" Blackburn. Former NASCAR driver, who once won a race at Daytona International Speedway, died Tuesday at age 69.
Blackburn drove in the Grand National and NASCAR circuits from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, driving for teams run by Smokey Yunick and Petty Enterprises.
He had four top fives and 14 top 10s in the Grand National series, The Daily Herald in Columbia reported. Blackburn ran 71 races at 26 different tracks in his career.
http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/indy_73_savage.wmv
Speaking of remembering, do you remember your first race? Mine was the 1973 Indy 500. The one where Salt Walther and Swede Savage had a terrible fiery crash. Guess what my trolling for video self found?
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Trolling The Memories
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Thank you for remembering him and posting this. You are too cool.
Post a Comment