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Ten Years After: Dale Earnhardt's Mother, Martha, Shares Memories

To live in Kannapolis, N.C., during the 20th century was to live in a company town, and if folks there didn't exactly sell their soul to the company store, everyone lived by the pulse of the massive Cannon Mills, provider of fluffy cotton towels and washcloths to a increasingly cleanliness-conscious nation. "They had...

Ten Years After: Dale Earnhardt Was Gray London's Crew Chief

Once there was a time when the great Dale Earnhardt was a crew chief. As you might expect, it was before he could legally drive. From the age of 13 until well after he got behind the wheel of a race car, Earnhardt was the crew chief for Gray London, a Kannapolis sandwich maker who took up racing in the 1960s to escape...

Ten Years After: Dale Earnhardt's Co-Biographer Shares His Memories

I stopped in a line of traffic, the nose of my car just short of the rail tracks that run in front of Richard Childress's shop complex in Welcome, N.C. The line of cars began to build behind me. I heard a loud train horn. I didn't exactly jump, but I looked quickly left and right, up and down the tracks, just to be sure....

Ten Years After: In His Own Words, Dale Earnhardt Reflects on His Life and Career

It was the end of the 1995 Winston Cup season, and Jeff Gordon -- "Wonder Boy" -- was the new NASCAR champion, set to be formally crowned at the annual banquet at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. High up in his lavish suite on the 36th floor, a day before the banquet, the runner-up, Dale Earnhardt, sat down...

Ten Years After: Sharing Final Moments and a Driver's Seat With Dale Earnhardt

"So, you got any advice for me here coming up?'' Dale Earnhardt radioed to Andy Pilgrim while slowly driving caution laps around Daytona International Speedway, preparing for the final race restart with 21 laps to go in the 2001 Daytona 500. Only two weeks earlier, the NASCAR icon had co-driven to a runner-up GT Class...

Background on Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart.

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