Hershel McGriff remembers when it wasn’t that unusual to drive the car to the track, tape up the headlights, race 500 miles and if you didn’t wreck it or blow the engine, drive it home.
McGriff did that in 1950, when he drove cross-country from his home in Portland, Ore., to compete in the inaugural Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C. He finished ninth in the race, and photos from that day show McGriff’s car racing with Oregon license tags.
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