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The 57 Truck and Daytona Incident

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Norm Benning's Backyard NASCAR Race Shop: Underdog Favorite Keeping Old School Ways Alive

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Norm presents photos of his 57 truck (Heinz sponsorship). He explains his efforts to obtain sponsorship from Heinz, mentioning that he eventually secured a deal with Schoene Homes out of Chicago instead, who helped fund his racing for a couple of years. He goes on to detail an incident at Daytona where a side window detached from his car while he was leading, resulting in a black flag, and shows his 57 truck that raced at Eldora.

Goal: Share the racing history and challenges associated with the 57 truck.

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the on his I don't know about the it's you know I wasn't around when he did that. I don't know who who designed that that they should have been shot. [Laughter] So was this the car that you said was Nhard's bird car? Yeah, as a matter of fact it was the one he hit the bird at. He was leading the race. Kind of ruined his day. test. I noticed that in some of these pictures it's still got the um the red interior. Yeah. How did you come to acquire that car? I actually got it through uh I believe it was Dave Dave Marcus somehow got me hooked up with that car. H and uh you know Dave worked with them quite a bit. I actually led that race and the side window came out with 18 laps to go. They black flagged me and that's the that's the car I ran at the brickyard 84 lumber. Then we ran it

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