The 1951 Hudson Hornet did not just win races, it rewrote what a stock car could be. In the early years of NASCAR, when big V8s and body-on-frame sedans were supposed to rule, a low-slung straight-six ...
The Lonsdale Sports Arena in Cumberland, Rhode Island, hosted the first sanctioned stock car race outside the South in 1947. Fonty Flock won the national championship race at the arena, witnessed by ...
CUMBERLAND – What is now a shopping plaza that includes a Stop & Shop and a McDonald's holds a noted place in American auto racing history: It is the site of the first sanctioned stock car race in the ...