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Some legislators had already driven the car in Daytona Beach, Fla. Florida Congressman Bill Chapell (see photo) was so impressed he sent a telegram to Jimmy Carter: "I've seen it, I've driven it, and it works...
...needed six weeks and $10,000, of which $5,200 was the price of the Capri. They hope that they can eventually mass-produce the Moodymobile for as little as $7,400. Although noisy, the car already has its supporters. Says Bill Gordon, chairman of the automotives department at Daytona Beach Community College: "I was skeptical when they brought the car in for testing. But it does everything they said it would and more...
...Last year more than 1.5 million fans watched the races, and purses rose to $4.8 million, a 50% increase in five years. This season the money will climb to over $5 million. And this year, for the first time, national TV carried an entire race live; CBS covered the Daytona 500 in February and drew 40 million viewers...
...Yarborough and his rivals still drive as hard as they did years ago on the half-mile clay tracks of the South, which is why they are millionaires today. They put on a spectacular show. In the Daytona 500 last February, Yarborough and Donnie Allison bumped fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie...
While most of us are looking forward to spending our spring break in such mundane places as Daytona Beach or back home with the folks in Oshkosh, there are still a few hardy souls in our midst with a little imagination...