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Branch Bank and Trust Company
Hillsborough, NC
The Official 2008 Show Sponsor


The House Doctor - THD Construction Inc.,
The Official 2008 Co-Sponsor of the Show



This website is dedicated to the Restoration & Preservation
Of the Occoneechee-Orange Speedway   (H.O.S.T)
"The Historic Speedway Group is introducing a whole new audience
to the preservation movement"  (Preservation North Carolina 2007 Annual Report)

Please visit & join The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
www.PRESNC.org


1948-1968
"South's Fastest and Finest one mile banked Speedway"


"The Occoneechee Speedway is the only ONE MILE Dirt Speedway
in existence from the Inaugural 1949 Nascar Season"

The Official Pace Car of the Historic Speedway Group
1965 Dodge 880     9 passenger Station Wagon



The Occoneechee-Orange Speedway Live's On!

      Fun for the Whole Family!
    Free admission to the Public!
Plenty of Free Parking!
Free Shuttle Services provided by OPT (Orange Public Transportation)

Watch for our Local & National
Media & Advertising Campaigns

BB&T
The 2008 Official Sponsor
Branch Bank & Trust Company
2nd Annual
September 27th - Rain or Shine
8am - 5pm
"60th Anniversary - 0cconeechee Speedway"
"Celebration of the Automobile Car Show"
Hosted by the Historic Speedway Group, Inc.

A blanket invitation has been extended to all
Grand National/Nascar Driver's - Families -
Car Owner's - Team Members - Show Car's -
NASCAR - NHRA - IHRA - DIRT RACER'S,
Local Driver's & Race Cars
Please call to confirm (919) 636-0751

Join us for the 2nd Annual Event!

Location:  Historic Occoneechee-Orange Speedway Entrance.
                Hwy 70a & Elizabeth Brady Road.
                 I-85 to exit 165, follow signs

Saturday's Scheduled events Include:
*OPEN CAR SHOW -  All Cars Welcome!
    *Door Prizes for Registered Participants
bring your Antique - Classic - Muscle - Rods & Customs - Low Rider - Mini Truck - Imports -
Pick Up Truck - Sport Compact Cars - Motorcycles - Race Car - Special Interest Vehicles -
*Pro Pick 100   -   *Cotton Owens Best of Show Trophy
*Wilbur Howard Best Interior Memorial Award
*Joe Weatherly Memorial 150 (150th Entry Award)
*Club Participation Award
 
 Entry Registration: $20.00 -  7am-Noon
Pre-Registration Deadline is September 12th
Both Pre- and at the Gate Registration
All participants will recieve Dash Plaque & Entry Gift Bag

*Local Drivers & Race Cars
*50/50 Drawing     *Local School Bands
*Live Auction featuring Racing Memoribilia
*Large Vintage Race Car Exhibit
*Race Car Driver Reunion
*Free Kids Rides
*Live Beach Music by The Castaways
* Tour the Occoneechee Speedway Trail (HOST)
*Visit "Ayr Mount"  Historic restored 1815 Plantation Home Site 


Grand National Drivers, Car Owner's and
Families have been invited! - Meet the Legends!
Marvin Panch  -  Paul Lewis
Rex White  -  Gene Hobby  -  Harry Leake -
  G.T. Nolan  -  Margaret Sue "Turner" Wright,
Cotton Owens  -  David Pearson  -  Glen Wood -
Gary Lewellan (Son of the late Great GN Driver Jimmy Lewellan)
Neil "Soapy" Castles  -  Raymond Williams -
Tony Lopez  -  Edgar Wilborn  -  Lottie Westmoreland
Wendell Scott Family  -  Monk Tate -
Pee Wee Jones  -  The Old Timer's Racing Club -
Francis Flock  -  Wanda Lund  -  Bill Blair Jr. -
Virginia-Carolina Early Dirt Racer's Club -
Dink Windenhouse  -  Billy Biscoe  -  Jim Massey,
T.Taylor Warren (Nascar's Official Photographer)
       Fred Harb  -  Pam Roberts (Fireball RobertsDaughter)
Bob Nooe  -  Bill Mangum  -  Harland Reynolds -
Bobby Gilmore -
Carlise Johnson  (crew member for the late Bobby Isaac)
Mac Howard (crew member for Ned Jarrett)
Buz McKim (Nascar Hall of Fame, Charlotte, NC)

Racing Fans, Start Your Engines!

Photo Courtesy BB&T Racing & RCR Racing
On Display The #2 - Clint Bowyer - BB&T  Race Car
2008 Chevrolet Impala SS
Courtesy BB&T and Richard Childress Racing
The action starts on Friday September 26th, at the local
BB&T branch office at 351 S. Churton Street, Hillsborough,
and again on Saturday at the Car Show

On Display courtesy of Alex Beam & Memory Lane Museum
#88 - George Mantooth's - Original 1937 Ford Coupe,
driven at the Occoneechee-Orange Speedway's Modified Races
in 1959 thru 1962

 On Display - J.B Day Motorsports - Early Nascar Stock Cars

On Display *Carolina Thunder Racing Team*
            *Orange County Speedway, Rougemont, NC*
           *Orange County Kartway, Rougemont, NC*
               *Dean Sox's - Sox's & Martin Plymouth Duster
                                  *Meet Perry Allen Wood - Author of "Silent Speedways of the Carolina's

Special Attraction:  Tour the "Occoneechee-Speedway" on
Tram Rides  pulled by John Deere(R) Tractors
John Deere Tractors courtesy Byrd Tractor & Equipment Co., Inc. Burlington, NC

*Food & Souvenirs by Local Vendors and Church/Civic Organizations.
No Pets Allowed
Proceeds from this show used for Preservation & Restoration projects