Close, but no seegar- - - - -it was Red Farmer who campaigned 289's so successfully. The last time I saw him drive was on the 1/4 mile dirt track a couple of miles down the road from Talladega, and he was 80 years old at the time. He was not just motoring around, either, the old boy was hauling butt!
Jerry

BTW, I was working pit crew on a couple of 46 Ford coupes in the "Hobby" class when we ran at Huntsville in the early 1960's. We would tow the cars down from Nashville and race there on Friday nights, Nashville on Saturday, Bowling Green Kentucky on Sunday afternoon, then swap to dirt tires and run at Ridgetop Tennessee on Tuesday nights!
Jerry

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