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  1.   ii posted:
  09.30.2010 - 3:04 pm
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Baker had the win, but it got stolen by Yarborough on the last lap.


  2.   myself posted:
  01.26.2012 - 1:41 pm
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How'd Cale steal it?


  3.   rob posted:
  03.04.2013 - 11:57 pm
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baker was headed to an apparent victory when j.d. mcduffie's blown
engine brought out the race's final caution. the green came back out
with two laps to go. cale pulled inside of buddy on the backstretch on
the last lap. the two cars banged together in turns 3 and 4 with cale
getting back to the line first. baker was not happy with cale's driving
on the final lap.


  4.   mkl62 posted:
  11.26.2014 - 10:00 pm
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Cale's first win under Junior Johnson. This was a partnership that would
last through the end of 1980. Johnson also had another entry in the race
with Earl Ross.


  5.   Mike Daly posted:
  04.07.2016 - 12:45 pm
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A slam-bang finish. Junior had been able to buy out Richard Howard's
ownership of the #11 thanks to Carling Breweries and the merging of the
#11 with Earl Ross' #52. Cale was happy, Junior said, "This is really
getting competitive," while Baker and Bud Moore were stewing.

Neil Bonnett tore out a good percentage of inside guardrail during this
race.


  6.   Billy P posted:
  08.18.2016 - 9:29 pm
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When you see Cecil Gordon # 24 in a 1973 Chevy, it was not his Monte
Carlo. It was a Chevelle owned by Lou Vigilone that Cecil kept at his
Mills River shop.
This was in exchange for Cecil helping with the prep of the car when Joe
Mihalic drove the car. We also pitted the car on occasion.


  7.   Rob posted:
  01.27.2017 - 3:12 pm
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To post #4. This was not Cale's first win with Junior. The Southeastern
500 at Bristol in 1973 was the first.


  8.   @Statscrash posted:
  08.17.2018 - 1:14 am
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to #5 was Bonnett a relief driver? Because I don't see him listed in the
results.


  9.   Paul88 posted:
  12.23.2019 - 9:52 pm
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To answer @Statscrash question:

According to newspaper reports, Bonnett was driving relief for Bob
Burcham (#57) when the wreck occurred.


  10.   Luke posted:
  01.09.2020 - 10:57 am
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To post #7: As post #5 mentioned, Richard Howard was the owner of the
team until Junior Johnson bought the team when he acquired sponsorship
from Carling, thus this being Cale's first win with Junior Johnson as
owner.


  11.   rateus posted:
  02.19.2021 - 5:24 pm
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Henley Gray qualified for Jackie Rogers and Roy Mayne qualified for Jabe
Thomas, not that either car lasted long on race day.

The two alternates for this race were Larry Richardson and Dick May,
both in '72 Chevrolets.


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