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	Curtis Turner - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		Curtis Turner was one of the pioneers of NASCAR stock car racing, a member of that hale and hearty band of competitors who raced hard, lived hard and enjoyed every moment of it.
		Turner's passing marked the end of an era in automobile racing, for today's professional is committed to the proposition that driving race cars requires complete dedication, with which parties cannot interfere.
		Turner was a different breed and his success earned him his lofty perch in motorsports history.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1992/Curtis_Turner_main.htm (772 words)

	Down Memory Lane ~ Curtis Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Curtis was born in 1924 in Floyd, Virginia, which lies just west of where the Blue Ridge Parkway traverses the mountains, and grew up with a father who was in the lumber business.
		Curtis was also an accomplished pilot and used his personal aircraft not only for traveling to races, but as a tool in his thriving lumber business.
		Curtis hired a skilled accountant to handle the speedway finances and within a year, many of the debts had been paid and there was light at the end of the tunnel.
	insiderracingnews.com /pk/110103.html (3187 words)

	SPEEDtv.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Curtis Turner is about to perform “an emergency landing he and his three passengers are dangerously low on whiskey,” and Turner has decided to land his twin-engine aircraft in the middle of Easley, South Carolina to replenish their liquor supply.
		Turner lands between two churches, leapfrogs cars on the roadwaydecides a pit stop for alcohol is out of the question full throttle clears a traffic light by inches, but pulls down some telephone lines.
		Turner eloped and was married in Bristol, Tennessee at age 22.
	www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/nascar/21914 (1224 words)

	Remember Curtis Turner? A Little More Trivia -»From the Voice of the NASCAR Nation
		A young man by the name of Curtis Turner took the pole, and was accompanied on the three wide front row by Jimmy Thompson and Gober Sosebee.
		Curtis Turner’s life was cut short when he was killed in a plane crash in 1970.
		Turner led a full and vigorous life, even though he died at the early age of 46.
	www.cupscene.com /120806lead2.htm (821 words)

	SpeedwayMedia.com, Online Resource For Motorsports Information
		Curtis Turner was born April 12, 1924 in Floyd, Virginia.
		Turner’s first race was in 1946 on a short track in Mount Airy, NC, he finished dead last in a field of 18 cars.
		Turner and golf pro, Clarence King were killed on October 4, 1970 when the plane Turner was flying crashed into a mountainside near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
	www.speedwaymedia.com /Articles/04/102304Madding.asp (907 words)

	ThatsRacin.com \| 03/17/2005 \| 'Full Throttle' \| Battling, then becoming Bobby Allison's friend
		And of course that cost Curtis his place in the race, the guy behind him went around and filled in behind the pace car, and so once I had him stopped against the wall, I let the entire field go by, and I backed up and attempted to start away.
		Turner gets out of his Ford and without a glance back, makes the slow walk to his street car, with Allison, winded and angry, staring after him.
		Turner drives off to Smithfield airport, gets into his plane and before heading for home, flies over Bowman Gray, making one last low sweep to dip his wing and say goodnight, to the roaring approval of the crowd.
	www.thatsracin.com /mld/thatsracin/11159648.htm (1171 words)

	Writing full throttle - Roanoke.com
		When he started researching his biography of Turner, Edelstein was aware only of the colorful outlines of Turner's life, which ended in a plane crash in 1970.
		France, who ruled NASCAR with a dictatorial hand, punished Turner for trying to form a union that would give drivers a say in how their sport was run.
		As Turner's first wife, Ann Turner, told Edelstein before she died in November 2003: "It was beating up his spirit.
	www.roanoke.com /extra/wb/xp-18703 (807 words)

	Amazon.com: Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner: Books: Robert Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Curtis Turner dominated the sport of stock car racing and thrilled fans with his daredevil driving in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, long before NASCAR became an official racing organization.
		Turner (1924–1970) started driving his father's car at age nine; by the time he was a teenager, he was running moonshine in the Virginia hills, becoming famous for his ability to outrun cops.
		Curtis Turner was one of the great drivers of the 50s, and played an important role in the growth of NASCAR.
	www.amazon.com /Full-Throttle-Times-Curtis-Turner/dp/1585674389 (1773 words)

	Curtis Turner 1
		Turner's passing marked the end of an era in automobile racing, for today's professional is committed to the proposition that driving race cars requirescomplete dedication, with which parties cannot interfere.
		Morton Turner was a true mountain entrepreneur so having a productive still was part of taking care of the family and since Curtis was part of that family, his job was delivering it to the customers.
		Curtis was badly shaken but not seriously hurt one of the most spectacular crashes ever, but Smokey fired Pops on the spot.
	www.fireballroberts.com /curtis_turner1.htm (3084 words)

	The Bayonet : : Digital Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Curtis and Ella Turner admire a box created by the students at Dexter Elementary School.
		Curtis Turner gave his life to God at a very early age.
		They capped off the Turners' House of Heroes experience by planting trees and flowers and presenting them a box of hand-made cards thanking the couple for their service.
	www.thebayonet.com /stories/2005/100705/02.htm (571 words)

	RacingOne - Nascar Racing: Auto Racing, Nascar News, Racing News, Nascar Online, Nascar 2006, Nascar Drivers, Nascar, ...
		Curtis Turner was an early legend of stock car racing, perhaps the roughest and toughest driver ever to turn a wheel in the sportâs history.
		Turner would give you one warning knock in the rear bumper to let you know he wanted by.
		But if you were to tell Turner NASCAR may very well take this race date away from Rockingham next year and move it to a track that has yet to offer much in the way of excitement during a stock car race, I donât think heâd understand that at all.
	www.racingone.com /article.aspx?artnum=16336 (1454 words)

	The Profile, Scott & Turner
		Turner’s “Mardi Gras” mentality and legendary lead foot “horsepowered” NASCAR throughout its pioneer rough and tumble beginnings.
		Turner, who achieved matinee idol popularity and co-founded The Charlotte Motor Speedway, was a constant thorn in the side of legendary NASCAR founder “Big Bill” France.
		In the twilight of his career, Turner teamed up with ace mechanic “Smokey” Yunick at the 1967 Daytona 500 -- where the two shocked the racing establishment by winning the pole in an un-sponsored, ‘trick’ Chevrolet Chevelle.
	www.americanstock.us /history04a.cfm (395 words)

	NASCAR history lesson \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Turner, an experienced pilot, lands his single-engine plane, with three passengers aboard, in Easley, S.C., on a Sunday night, scattering terrified churchgoers.
		Turner was planning to restock the travelers' liquor supply.
		Driving a Yunick-prepared Chevrolet (General Motors was not officially in NASCAR at the time), Curtis Turner won the pole for the 1967 Daytona 500.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/85119 (400 words)

	Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of NASCAR Legend Curtis Turner
		Curtis Turner was the most dynamic stock car racer of all time; he wrote the book on living fast and dying young.
		Turner was the first NASCAR celebrity, driving in the sport's first race in 1949, and he was the first NASCAR driver ever featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
		Full Throttle is the first-ever full-scale chronicle of Turner's legendary life, from his days as a teenage moonshine runner in Virginia, through millions earned (and just as quickly spent) in fearless finance deals, to his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit.
	www.themotorbookstore.com /futhliandfat.html (315 words)

	KNOW YOUR NASCAR > NASCAR'S 50 GREATEST DRIVERS > Curtis Turner
		In 1950, Turner led the competition in laps completed (1,626), laps led (1,110) and races led (12).
		Turner was killed in a crash of his private plane on Oct. 4, 1970.
		In 1971, Turner was inducted into the National Motor Sports Press Association's Hall of Fame at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
	premium.nascar.com /KNOW/history/greatestdrivers/CTurner00 (145 words)

	Curtis Turner 2
		Curtis Turner is featured in an interesting movie.
		In August 1966, he took on crusty veteran Curtis Turner on the quarter-mile, flat Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
		Turner's Ford spun, and he returned to the track moving slowly, waiting on Allison's Chevrolet.
	www.fireballroberts.com /Curtis_Turner_Page2A.htm (852 words)

	Home Page
		Curtis has earned the professional designations of Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant.
		In talking about his mission statement, Curtis is sincere and direct: "We will seek to establish long-term relationships by offering a broad range of financial products and services aimed at achieving sound financial goals.
		We have a few questions to ask you which will help Curtis to prepare a quote for you.
	www.geocities.com /curtisturner (233 words)

	Curtis Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curtis Turner (born April 12, 1924 in Floyd, Virginia - died October 14, 1970) was an early NASCAR driver.
		Turner conceptualized, secured financing for, and built Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 before being forced out by his business partners.
		Curtis Turner at International Motorsports Hall of Fame
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curtis_Turner (547 words)

	Joe Weatherly Stories
		Weatherly and Turner had an infamous apartment known as the "party pad" on Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach that was the place to be the night before the annual Daytona races.
		Curtis and Joe simply got their laughs by watching the reaction of people who had to walk past it on the way to their rooms.
		Weatherly became more and more agitated as the plane spiraled down in a shallow glide until Turner restored power to the engines, all the while forgetting that he was also scaring the daylights out of the poor journalist.
	www.joeweatherly.com /Stories.htm (2224 words)

	Curtis Turner, A Great Driver: And the partyingest SOB in NASCAR history: Books: Arts: Creative Loafing Charlotte
		By anybody's measure, Turner was one of the best — a moonshiner's son from the hills of Virginia who decided for awhile to ply his daddy's trade.
		Turner dazzled the crowds in his dirt track days, power-sliding into the turns in a ferocious, hell-for-leather ballet.
		But there were also the moments of seriousness and tragedy — a marriage that ended, a bitter and unsuccessful attempt to organize a union for the NASCAR drivers, and finally the day in 1970 when he flew his airplane into a mountain.
	charlotte.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:6421 (798 words)

	Curtis Turner Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This site is dedicated to the preservation and education of the early days of stock car racing, as it pertains to an extraordinary, independent, Virginia Pioneer of Racing, Curtis Turner.
		Curtis Turner was born April 12, 1924 in Floyd County, Virginia and died October 10, 1970.
		This site is maintained by Sue Turner Wright, daughter of Curtis Turner, legendary stock car racer.
	www.curtisturnermuseum.com (91 words)

	Chargers, Thinkers, and Planners: Round Two - 05/02/01
		Curtis Turner on the other hand was brash, aggressive in speech, and intimidating on the racetrack.
		Curtis would run over a scout troup if they happened to be between him and a higher finish.
		On the other hand, Turner simply drives his car through the first turn wall early in the race, attempting to win a race in an 8th place car.
	www.gordonline.com /beyond/050201.html (1517 words)

	Racing Champions Curtis Turner Racing #26 Lockheed Vega Airplane Bank, Racing Champions, Hats · Apparel, ...
		Curtis Morton Turner was a wild man and racing legend from Floyd, Virginia.
		Curtis began as a bootleg driver and went on to become the most infamous driver during Nascar's Golden era of 1948-1971.
		In 1957 Curtis vowed never to race again unless a fine of $50.00 was lifted for rough riding.
	www.gomotorbids.com /LotDetail.cfm?Lot_ID=5286 (695 words)

	Checkered Flag Waves for NASCAR Legends stories
		Now, Curtis was the kind of guy that would help a young driver with his racing career if he liked him, and there was nothing not to like about young Cale Yarborough.
		One summer, when Cale was visiting Curtis at his North Carolina home, he asked Curtis to explain to him the racing line at Darlington.
		That prompted Curtis to disappear for a few minutes, and when he returned, it was on his tractor.
	www.laidbackracing.com /TheOldDays/CurtisCale.html (188 words)

	NASCAR MODELS
		Curtis was a character and one of the pioneers of NASCAR, but often running afoul of Big Bill France, the founder of NASCAR, and the man in charge.
		The drivers were Joe Weatherly and Curtis Turner - a BAD pair to have under the same roof...
		In 1956, Turner spent most of his time running a '56 Ford in the Convertible Division, entering only 13 of the 56 NASCAR Grand National (now NEXTEL Cup) events, finishing 20th in points, and scoring one win at the Southern 500.
	sites.nexusisp.com /lgsmirle/lgs99ph.htm (1074 words)

	Bruce Curtis-Turner & Co - Poole, UK Based Dorset solicitors
		Amongst our workload, we undertake preparation of the latest forms of pre-nuptial agreements and pre-cohabitation agreements and Teresa Allen our specialist lawyer in respect of family matters, will be pleased to discuss same with you directly over the telephone to outline their effect in English Law generally.
		In 1981 Bruce Curtis Turner moved from Dorset Solicitors in central Bournemouth to form a new practice in Broadstone, initially focusing on the legal aspects of buying and selling residential and commercial properties, and general family Law as Dorset Solicitors.
		In 1999 Nicholas Drukker joined Bruce Curtis Turner as a partner in the Bruce Curtis Turner & Co Team to cement further our relationship with Nicholas Drukker at his separate practice at Mitre Court, 44-46 Fleet Street, London.
	www.sfla.co.uk /directory/Dorset/2516.php (353 words)

	Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner by Overlook Hardcover
		Curtis Turner's life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history.
		In gripping prose, and with full access to the files of Turner's widow, biographer Robert Edelstein thrillingly recreates the life of this American legend.
		Full Throttle is the first-ever full-scale chronicle of Turner's legendary life, from his days as a teenage moonshine runner, through his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit.
	www.php-web-hosting.us /stuff-1585674389.html (830 words)

	Turbo's Racing Photos - Vintage Stock Cars - Curtis Turner
		IT WAS TAKEN IN JANUARY 1966 AT THE MOTOR TREND 500.
		CURTIS IS STILL ON IT WHILE OFF TRACK.
		CURTIS WAS KNOWN TO DRIVE A HARD BUT HONEST RACE.
	www.mlodeent.com /OLDSTOCK/cturner.htm (94 words)

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	Curtis Turner OK
		Curtis Turner OK Welcome to Legends of NASCAR.com!
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	www.legendsofnascar.com /Curtis_Turner.htm (171 words)

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