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April 12, 1987 - Valleydale Meats 500
NASCAR's 1987 Winston Cup season got off to a blistering start. Awful Bill from Dawsonville, Bill Elliott, captured his second Daytona 500 win in three years. He did so after also capturing the pole at...
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1969 Flameless 300
As the calendar turned to 1969, only three seasons had passed since Nashville's Fairground Speedways re-opened following a devastating fire in September 1965.Yet the new tradition of the Flameless 300...
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1970 Flameless 300
Since 1958, Nashville's Fairgrounds Speedway closed its seasons annually for twenty years with the running of the Southern 300 during the 1960s and Southern 400 in the 1970s. Beginning in 1966, the...
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1971 Flameless ... err, Permatex 200
Beginning in 1966, Nashville's Fairground Speedways opened each season with the Flameless 300. The banking was raised to a Talladega-esque 35 degrees when the track was rebuilt in 1969-1970, and the...
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Earnhardt's final race in Music City
Dale Earnhardt began making the trek to Nashville Speedway in the mid 1970s. His first race at the Fairgrounds was the June 1976Â Union 76 200, and he finished second to fellow North Carolinian Harry...
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Nashville's Falls City 200 - part 1
For many years, Falls City was a coming of age and working man's beer. The Nashville-area distributor leveraged the brand as a frequent sponsor at the track most refer to as Fairgrounds Speedway...
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Nashville's Falls City 200 - part 2
The first three Falls City 200 late model sportsman races at Nashville's Fairgrounds Speedway were before my time as an avid race fan. Though I went to my first race sometime in 1974, I have no...
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July 19, 1958 - The debut of Fairgrounds Speedway
After decades of racing on the one-mile, dirt oval, horse racing facility at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, the Legion Bowl (later renamed Nashville Speedways), and other short-lived, Nashville-area...
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Nashville's 1958 and 1959 Southern 300
Nashville's Fairground Speedways opened July 19, 1958, with a slate of races on the inner, quarter-mile track.Three weeks later, the Fairgrounds debuted its half-mile track in grand fashion with a...
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Nashville's 1960 Southern 300
As was the case in 1958 and 1959, the Southern 300 modified race closed out the third season of Nashville's Fairground Speedways. The third edition of the race was scheduled for Sunday, October 2,...
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Nashville's 1961 Southern 300
The fourth annual Southern 300 was held at Nashville's Fairground Speedways, Sunday, October 1, 1961.A storyline going into the race was the discussion among some about the racing future of Bullet Bob...
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Nashville's 1962-1963 Southern 300s
The Southern 300 reached a bit of a milestone with its fifth edition in 1962. The season ending race for Nashville's Fairground Speedways was held on Sunday, September 30th.About a month before the...
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Nashville's 1964 Southern 300
The 1964 racing season at Nashville's Fairground Speedways brought significant change for drivers, owners, and fans. Gone were the modified coupes of the past six years. Replacing them were late model...
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Nashville's 1966 Southern 300
The eighth running of Nashville's Southern 300 at Fairground Speedways was scheduled for Sunday, October 3, 1965. Two weeks before race weekend, however, the Fairgrounds property suffered a disastrous...
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Nashville's 1967 Southern 300
The ninth running of the Southern 300 at Nashville's Fairground Speedways - the final late model race of season - was slated for Sunday, October 1, 1967. The International 300, an event for modifieds...
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Nashville's 1968 Southern 300
The tenth edition of the Southern 300 at Nashville's Fairground Speedways marked the final race of the track's 1968 season.Modifieds were featured as the top division at the Fairgrounds from 1958...
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Nashville's 1969 Southern 300
The eleventh running of Nashville's Southern 300 at Fairground Speedways was on Sunday, September 28, 1969. The race concluded the track's season and was also the final race on the original half-mile...
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Nashville's 1970 Southern 300
Following the 1969 Southern 300, a multi-month project began to transform Nashville's Fairground Speedways. The low-banked, half-mile track was converted to a high-banked, 5/8-mile, speed demon. In...
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Nashville's 1971 Southern 300
The 13th running of the Southern 300 at Nashville's Fairground Speedways concluded the 1971 season of points-paying races. Flookie Buford captured the first of his two track late model sportsman...
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Nashville's 1972 Permatex Southern 300
Drivers belted in for the 14th running of the Southern 300 on October 1, 1972. The race was the third of the 20 editions to fall on October 1st. The race was also the first one to add a sponsor....
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