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Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE
BILL VUKOVICH AND I WENT TO THAT RACE! ERNIE PURCELL FLIPPED TO HIS DEATH GOING IN THE FIRST TURN DRIVING A SUPER MOD. IN A HEAT RACE AND AS THE CARS CAME DOWN THE FRONT STRAIGHAWAY TO THE RED FLAG DRIVER WALT REIFF WENT ON THE TRACK TO SLOW THEM DOWN AND A CAR SWUNG TO THE INSIDE AND RAN OVER WALT AND KILLED HIM! THEN IN THE FEATURE JIMMY GORDAN WAS KILLED ON THE BACK STRAIGHTAWAY WHEN HE FLIPPED IN LEN FASS'S SPRINT CAR THERE WAS SEVERAL CARS INVOVLED! THEN LATER OWN WAYNE WEILER TOOK PEAT BROTHER'S SUPER OVER THE FORTH TURN WALL AND WAS UNHURT! JERRY BLUNDY HAD ONE OF THE FIRST 4 BY 4 CHEVYS AND HIDE FROM THEM! MOST OF THESE GUYS HAD LITTLE OR TIME ON A MILE TRACK!:checkered:
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I've got some clips of that race on an old Dick Wallen VHS I have. It doesn't show the front stretch deal, but does mention it. It does show Jimmy Gordon's crash from a camera angle high in turn three. If I remember right, Gordon got on the inside berm and started a nasty series of flips down the backstretch. He flipped right into the path of (Ronnie?) Ray and Ray had nowhere to go. Gordon's car disintegrated, and you didn't have to wait for the tape to tell you that he didn't survive. It shows footage of a shaken, but unhurt, Ray getting into the ambulance after the crash. Bad deal, indeed.