Dink Widenhouse oral history interview, 2007 January 25

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Dink Widenhouse oral history interview, 2007 January 25

2007-01-25

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:358

Stock car driver and Concord, North Carolina native David "Dink" Widenhouse discusses his racing career from the late 1940s-1960s and his experiences with members of the racing community. Mr. Widenhouse describes how he began racing at the age of fifteen and won his first NASCAR race at the age of eighteen, even though the rules required that drivers be at least twenty-one. He describes how he primarily drove in modified stock car races on dirt tracks in the Charlotte region, including the now-defunct track at the Southern States Fairgrounds and Charlotte Speedway off Wilkinson Boulevard. Other topics include details about racing and the mechanics of race cars, race car accidents, and the connection between the bootleg liquor industry and stock car racing.

1 audio file (2:42:01) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (78 pages : PDF)

eng, Latn

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