MARF was the Metropolitan Auto Racing Fans Club of the Washington, DC area, a highly respected group with many members. Pete DePaolo was to be the guest speaker and the article mentions that Melton, Weatherly and Welborn had just completed "roles" in the soon to be released Thunder in Carolina movie. Occoneehee Orange Speedway Hillsbough, NCĪ 1959 edition of the Fredericksburg paper noted that six Fredericksburg folks were up for awards at the MARF banquet in Arlington, Virginia - to be emceed by announcer Ray Melton, with Joe Weatherly and Bob Welborn to be in attendance. Langley Speedway (Dude Ranch) Hampton, VA Dave here are 14 tracks that I remember listed below the car ran on. Ing, I guess that I will never forget those times at the races. We had so much fun back then even going and com
My brother and I were just kids back then and didn't get to go to all of the tracks that were miles away. But they could have because they traveled a lot back in the day running at many tracks. Got this response back this morning from member Jack Carter regarding whether he knew if the cars his dad owned - the #37va DeSotos - had raced at Fredericksburg Speedway:ĭave I don't remember hearing them talk about running at Fredericksburg Speedway.
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