Charlie Blanton (December 29, 1935 – October 17, 2018) was a

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race car driver who raced from 1973 to 1978.''Charlie Blanton''
racing information at Racing Reference

Career

This driver participated in 634 laps of racing action - the equivalent of . He would earn a total of $3,135 in his total racing career ($ when adjusted for inflation) while starting and finishing in 27th place on average. He appeared in the January 1970 issue of

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alongside

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, Randy Hutchison,

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, and

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. One of Blanton's more notable non-Winston Cup Series performances was at the 1971

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; a NASCAR Grand American Series event where Blanton finished in fourth place. The race took two hours and twenty-nine minutes to finish. While never winning at the Winston Cup Series level, Blanton did exceptionally well on dirt tracks in the other series; he managed to finish in second to

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at the 1972 Bold City 200 in

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. Blanton was the winner of the 1973 Daytona ARCA 300 race. His primary car in the NASCAR Cup Series would be the #59 Chevrolet sponsored by Mr. Danny Queen.''Charlie Blanton'' sponsor information
at Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet

References

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