{"id":2926,"date":"2016-06-01T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T00:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2016-06-01T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T00:20:48","slug":"nascar-goodness-1964-firecracker-400-brochure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/nascar-goodness-1964-firecracker-400-brochure\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Goodness: 1964 Firecracker 400 Brochure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fantastic piece of racing history. It&#8217;s a promotional brochure for NASCAR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/auto-racing\/nascar\/other\/1964-firecracker-400.html\">Firecracker 400<\/a>, scheduled for July 4, 1964 at Daytona International Speedway. It features a great aerial shot of the track, as well as a few cool action photos from the 1963 running. Oh, and did I mention it&#8217;s partially sponsored by Eastern Airlines?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2929\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR Goodness: 1964 Firecracker 400 Brochure\" width=\"1576\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1.jpg 1576w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-1-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8217;64 Firecracker 400 (currently\u00a0known as the Coke Zero 400) was won by racing legend A.J. Foyt, who repeated his victory in 1965. This brochure gets into the history of the race, as well as that of Daytona Speedway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2930\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR Goodness: 1964 Firecracker 400 Brochure\" width=\"1217\" height=\"1574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1964-nascar-firecracker-400-brochure-2-792x1024.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1217px) 100vw, 1217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more NASCAR goodness, check out the main <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/auto-racing\/nascar\/nascar-index.html\">NASCAR cover section<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s look at this cool piece of racing history, a promo brochure for the 1964 Firecracker 400, a NASCAR race at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[21,147,235,353,354,144,11],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-ephemera","tag-1960s","tag-auto-racing","tag-brochures","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-firecracker-400","tag-nascar","tag-series","wpcat-135-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}