University of North Carolina at Asheville
D. Hiden Ramsey Library
Special Collections/University Archives

Oral History Register
for

J.B. Day
The Dan Pierce NASCAR Collection

 

Title

 J.B. Day Oral History
Creator Daniel Pierce, PhD, History Department Chair UNCA, Associate Professor

Alt. Creator

Interviewer: Daniel Pierce, PhD, History Department Chair UNCA, Associate Professor

Subject
LCSH:

Day, J.B.
Pierce, Dan
NASCAR (Association) -- History
Stock car racing -- United States -- History
Distilling, Illicit -- North Carolina -- History -- Anecdotes
 

Subject
Keyword: 

J. B. Day; Riverbend Racing Museum; autoracing history; Greenville-Pickens Speedway: International Motorsports Hall of Fame;

Description

 

Publisher

D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804

Contributor

 Daniel Pierce, PhD, History Department Chair UNCA, Associate Professor

Date

Electronic Record Issued: 2008-12-12

Type

Sound ; Text

Format

1 90 minute cassette converted to CD ; TRANSCRIPT

Identifier

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/NASCAR/day_jb.html

Source

NASCAR Oral History Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Language

English

Relation

 The six Oral Histories in this collection:
J. B. Day
Ned Jarrett
Junior Johnson
Richard Petty
Gordon Pirkle
H.A. Wheeler

Coverage

 1940s-2005
Rights Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Acquisition

Donor number: 345;  Date of acquisition: May 2008

Processed By

 Special Collections staff

Interview Date

 2005-07-25
Interview Location  

Biography

 J. B. Day opened the Riverbend Old Stockcar Racing Museum near the Greenville-Pickens Speedway, South Carolina.  His collection began with restoring replicas of cars that played a role in the evolution of NASCAR.  In 2002, J. B. Day was invited to display two replicas from the collection at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talledega, Alabama. One of these replicas is the 1937 Ford that Fonty Flock drove when he won the championship at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in 1959.  Before he died in 1998, Flock asked Day to lead his funeral procession to his grave, behind the wheel of the replica. 
List of Names Dan Pierce
Fonty Flock, NASCAR racer
 

 

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