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The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 12

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Gaffney, South Carolina
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Page 12 The Gaffney Ledger, Friday, June 10, 1983 Bandit to visit Cherokee ciczm caoifisF OflRRITy rortabli light Perfect for house, patio, boat or camper. Battery not Included. 4001 Nollrmod Rally tlock Quartz, timer alarm. Easy mount. Batteries not Included 1355 REB AJDOXX 1 I Slto Prtd $15.95 Less Mfg.

Malt-in Rebate $00 95 be $600, while the street division will offer. $200 for first place. Also, trophies will be presented to the first and second place winners in each division. Skoal (U.S. Tobacco Co.) has donated $1,000 to the event.

In addition, several of the Skoal Bandettes will be handing out bumper stickers and posters. Johnny Bruce, sales promotion and events manager for U.S. Tobacco, who also serves as the jackman in the Skoal, Bandit pit crew at all Winston Cup races, will also be on hand to answer questions people might have about the "Bandit" or racing. The Shrine, as a leader of child therapy in orthopedics, also contributes to medical science through the three burn in-stititues. Thousands of children are actually or potentially crippled by burns each year.

Many of these children are treated (at no cost) in one of the Shrine burn institutes located in Boston, Cincinnati or Galveston. Tickets are $6 grandstand and $7 pit pass. Children, ages 7-12, will be admitted for $1. Children 6-and-under accompanied by a parent will be admitted free. Cherokee Speedway is located northeast of Gaffney off Interstate 85, near the S.C.

18 interchange. While most bandits logically try to stay out of trouble, there's one bandit that will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people during 1983. It's the "Skoal and it's not the kind that robs bands. It's the gleaming 1982 Buick Regal stock car, a replica of the model which competes on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit. The Buick is identical to the one driver Harry Gant, who won at Darlington recently, is campaigning on the Winston circuit this year.

The green and white No. 33 Regal, owned by Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds, is NASCAR legal, equipped with a 358 cubic engine capable of 600 horsepower. Racing fans will have ample opportunity to see the "Bandit," along with the Skoal Bandettes, at the third annual Cherokee Shrine 100 June 14, 8:30 p.m., at Cherokee Speedway. A skydiving exhibition will opjen the festivities at 8. Race chairman Drayton Queen said that a purse of $10,160 will be paid for the meet, which "includes sportsman, cadet and street divisions.

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$3.75 21s 21 Automotive Car Care Center 128 E. Robinson St. 489-1110 Good at all participating CARQUEST Auto Parts Stores thru July 4, 1983. BOS SUPER Reconditioning Hand Wash Includes AT MOST lOCAHONS Compound I $69.95 Steam Clean Engine Shampoo Carpet Shampoo Interior Wax Paint Under Hood REGULAR Reconditioning Wash By Hand ldQQcTI ShamP Interior Shampoo Carpet 3 Compound Wax AUTO PARTS AND SUPPLY 1415 Cherokee Avenue Gaffney 489-1139 (Located in Old Salvation Army Building) IRON CITY AUTO PARTS 108 North Rutherford St. Blacksburg 839-2708 i i i i i i i i Wash Wax Clean Interior $39.95 Hand Wash Inside Out $8.50 We Also Stripe Cars Install Body Side Molding Multi-Stripe Pin Stripe $19.95 Body Side Molds Glue On $39.95 Win $50 Play Newspaper Bingo ddqv iiae iviuius vci un a THIRD ANNUAL SU fq) it Ik ace TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 8:30 P.M.

RAIN DATE JUNE 21 RUTHERFORDTON SKYDIVERS will jump over the Speedway at 8 p.m. $10,160 in prize money SPORTSMAN, CADET, and STREET Divisions A i i $6 Grandstands, $7 Pit Pass $1 Children 7-12 1 mm Xiti.jut SPfCAL ATTRACTION: "Skoal Bandit" Grand National Race Car No.33, wffi ffie "Bandettes" Mike Phillips, Gaffney See these and other sportsman drivers battle for $2,000 prize money IV! 4 -1 1981 ........0 Ni Champion MIKE C.R. Hames, Rutherfordton i DUVALL 1982 Champion C.L. PRITCHETT I -4 i a fcti til rii Ill CMEOMDKEE sp(B(Dw2aiy Gaffney, S.C."" 'T SourA'i fa.ip.r f)in Trar" i Aaron Gailey Jimmy Buck Simmons Bullock I. i Rick Jones, Forest City.

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