Related Year: 1969

Daytona’s first annual “orange juice” race, the Florida Citrus 250 for
NASCAR GT cars, made its debut the Friday before the 500-mile stock car race. The skies were clear, the weather warm, and the stands virtually empty Don Yenko, a Chevrolet dealer from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was fastest qualifier with a 112.799-mph speed over the 3.8-mile course, and he won the race in his ex-Smokey Yunick Camaro. But when the green flag dropped, he was just one of the gang following in the wake of Parnelli Jones and Lloyd Ruby, who headed ,out for their own Personal Race at the head of the pack.

By Steve Kelly – We all stood there, looking down pit road at a vacant spot of track where the leader of the last lap would come into view in just seconds. The spectators opposite the pits, jammed into the stands, were cheering and on their feet; you could almost hear Bunkie Knudsen leading a cheer. Suddenly there was Lee Roy in his white Ford, ahead of Charlie Glotzbach in his red and black Dodge – and what a surprise it all turned out to be!

By Jim Hodge ■ Surfers are much the same as hot rodders. They’re doers. They experi­ment with surfboard sizes and weights, fin design, cavitation, and techniques, all in an effort to improve up” performance when they’re out on the waves “playing their own song.”

By John Thawley ■ At times Tim Beebe and John Mulligan appear to have just stepped off the drawing board of the prolific and painfully amusing Al Capp. But the ink never dries on Beebe and Mulligan, and the characterizations never set. They are characters, but they are real characters, not interpretations locked in newsprint.

What’s it take to bring back the past? For some, a little four-banger track roadster, for others, a sano two-door with a four-haler Bo Jones had to have both. To get his hard eight, Bo built two ’62 Chevy II four-cylinder mills. One fits his roadster and mates to a three-speed, the other was installed into his ’27 Ford sedan with a Powerglide trans.