PODCAST: Hard Left Turn EXTRA - Early racing history from Greg Fielden

Over the years, there have been many books written on the history of NASCAR - but hardly anything has been printed on the history of stock car racing prior to 1948.  Until now.

On a special Hard Left Turn Extra podcast, Brandon Reed talks to racing historian Greg Fieldon, author of the "Forty Years of Stock Car Racing" series, "Real Racers", "High Speed at Low Tide" and other highly regarded racing history books about his new offering "Rebels Without Applause".

Fielden's new book centers on the birth of modern stock car racing, from the years 1938 (and the first true stock car race at Atlanta, Georgia's historic Lakewood Speedway), and moves forward to the first two years of Modified racing under the NASCAR banner, along with the birth of what would becomed the NASCAR Cup Series.

To order a copy of "Rebels Without Applause", send $38.95 plus $5 shipping via check to:

Greg Fielden
721 2nd Avenue North
Myrtle Beach, SC 29575

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Lloyd Seay, of Dawsonville, Georgia, was famous for bicycling his race car on two wheels through the north turn of the Daytona Beach and Road course in Daytona Beach, Florida. Seay scored the win on the Daytona sands on August 24, 1941. Photo: Georgia Racing Hall of Fame

Raymond Parks, of Dawsonville, Georgia, was NASCAR's first championship car owner and a pioneer of the early days of stock car racing. Photo: Georgia Racing Hall of Fame

Greg Fielden's new book, "Rebels Without Applause", documents stock car racing from 1938 through 1939.

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