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Stock car racing turns 70: Richard Petty recalls wild first race in 1949
On Jan. 19, 1949, drivers and moonshiners arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, in Buicks, Mercurys and Cadillacs with numbers duct-taped on the car doors -- and made history.
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