From an old Racing Pictorial… Man were these cars ever STOCK!! Just 33 cars started the race that year… It was won by Jack Bowsher in a 1966 Ford (#21)… Ramo Stott in the #0 was second followed by Andy Hampton #35 and Ernie Derr (The top guy from the old IMCA Stock Car circuit) in the #1… Some others I can recognize are Ralph Latham in an old Ray Nichels Plymouth #25 and USAC driver Sal Tovella in the #5 Mercury… Check out two cars that had to come off some show room somewhere… the #02 Pontiac of Johnny Ditch and the #00 Buick of Ray Daniels… The only guy running a Pontiac at that time in NASCAR was H.B. Bailey and no one was running a Buick back then…
Things have really changed…
