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Title: Dink Widenhouse oral history interview, 2007 January 25
Creator: Widenhouse, Dink, 1932-
Date Created: 2007-01-25
Subjects--Topical: Automobile racing, Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock car racing--Accidents, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Distilling, Illicit
Description: 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 ...

Title: Frances Flock oral history interview, 2008 January 30
Creator: Flock, Frances, 1928-
Date Created: 2008-01-30
Subjects--Topical: Automobile racing, Motorsports, Stock car racing, Automobile racing drivers' spouses, Labor unions--Organizing, Distilling, Illicit
Description: Frances Flock, the wife of stock car driver Tim Flock, reminisces about her early life, Mr. Flock's career, and her involvement in the motorsports community. She talks about growing up in rural Atlanta, Georgia in the 1930s and 1940s, her cou...

Title: Harold Smith oral history interview 2, 2008 March 19
Creator: Smith, Harold, 1932-
Date Created: 2008-03-19
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Drag racing, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Motors--Modification, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile racing--Accidents, Automobiles, Racing--Maintenance and repair, Automobile racing--Employees, Automobile racing drivers--Family relationships
Description: In this second interview, modified stock car mechanic, pit crew member, and motorsports enthusiast Harold Smith reflects on his experiences in the racing community from the 1950s through the time of interview. Mr. Smith describes how he began work...

Title: Howard DeHart oral history interview, 2008 March 20
Creator: DeHart, Howard
Date Created: 2008-03-20
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile mechanics, Pit crew chiefs, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobiles, Racing--Motors
Description: Howard DeHart reflects on his life, the early days of NASCAR, and his career with the Holman Moody racing shop in Charlotte. Growing up on his family's farm in rural Virginia during the Great Depression, Mr. DeHart explains how his interest in mec...

Title: Rex White oral history interview, 2008 May 15
Creator: White, Rex, 1930-
Date Created: 2008-05-15
Subjects--Topical: Farm life, Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Motorsports, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Chassis, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Sports--Corrupt practices, Automobile racing--Psychological aspects
Description: In this interview, Rex White recounts his early life and his career as a stock car driver from the 1950s to 1965. He begins by describing his life growing up in rural Taylorsville, North Carolina, including experience working on his father's Ford ...

Title: T. Taylor Warren oral history interview 1, 2005 December 7
Creator: Warren, T. Taylor (Thomas Taylor), 1925-2008
Date Created: 2005-12-07
Subjects--Topical: Stock car racing, Motorsports, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Sports photographers, Photography of sports, Photojournalism, Photography--Equipment and supplies, Hasselblad camera, Photography--Techniques
Description: T. Taylor Warren reflects on his life, his photography career, and the early days of photographing NASCAR racing. He recalls his budding interest in photography as a boy and describes his education at Rochester Institute of Technology and the teac...

Title: T. Taylor Warren oral history interview 2, 2006 January 12
Creator: Warren, T. Taylor (Thomas Taylor), 1925-2008
Date Created: 2006-01-12
Subjects--Topical: Sports photographers, Photography of sports, Photojournalism, Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Motorsports, Motorsports--Economic aspects, Women automobile racing drivers, African American automobile racing drivers, Automobile racing managers, Automobile racing--Employees, Automobile racing--Sociological aspects
Description: Motorsports photographer T. Taylor Warren reflects in this second interview on the culture of NASCAR during the 1950s-1980s and on how the stock car industry has changed through the time of the interview in 2006. He begins by discussing the Nation...