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That must be one of the last photos of Little Joe alive. He was killed at Riverside (where I'd guess that pic was taken) in a '64 Mercury. I don't think they ran the '64 body during the '63 season, so a little deductive reasoning leads me to believe that's the car.
Is that a license plate on the front?
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You're Right Gary.That's one of the last of Joe from Riverside 1964.A good friend of mine was watching from turn 6 when Joe hit the wall in turn 6 that day.Ironicaly his name is Joe also.We both agree from that photo,had Joe been wearing shoulder belts,he might have lived through the crash.I believe NASCAR added shoulder belts,and a window net later on that year.
From what I've read, Joe was scared to death of burning in a crash, so he used to wear his belts loose so that he could get out faster if his car caught fire. That looseness probably allowed his body to farther to the left at the point of impact, allowing his head to strike the wall on impact.
You would have thought that someone would have come up with the idea of window netting after this crash instead of after Petty's crash at Darlington in 1970, where he was hanging halfway out the window of his Plymouth.
When you think about it, it's amazing how many lives were lost because relatively simple devices weren't on the cars at the time.
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