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Darlington Raceway - Darlington tickets part of Smithsonian collection - Photo: Darlington Raceway president Chris Browning with a set of original tickets from all three races run at Darlington in 1950. The tickets were a gift from the Fayetteville Christian School in Fayetteville, NC. A matching set resides in the Smithsonian Institution's American History collection. The Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum was the recipient of a valuable addition to its memorabilia collection on Wednesday, January 11. ...(Click on link above for more of the article). Racing One - The Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum was the recipient of a valuable addition to its memorabilia collection on Wednesday, January 11. Fayetteville Christian School presented Raceway president Chris Browning with a complete set of original tickets from all three races run in Darlington during the track’s 1950 inaugural season, including an AMA motorcycle race, a “Big Car” (later Indy car) race, and the legendary Southern 500 stock car event....Click on link above for more on the article.. GNextInc. - Darlington tickets added to Smithsonian: The Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum was the recipient of a valuable addition to its memorabilia collection on Wednesday, January 11. Fayetteville Christian School presented Raceway president Chris Browning with a complete set of original tickets from all three races run in Darlington during the track’s 1950 inaugural season, including an AMA motorcycle race, a “Big Car” (later Indy car) race, and the legendary Southern 500 stock car event. More than 100 FCS middle-schoolers attended the press conference, prompting Browning to remark that the day represented a textbook blending of racing’s past and its future....(Click on link above for more on the article..

Local school hopes to cash in on vintage tickets  By Thomas Pope Motor sports editor Staff photo by Rachael Santillan Officials at Fayetteville Christian School hope to raise as much as $2 million by selling all the tickets to a single corporate buyer. If they can’t the tickets could be auctioned off to the public. ADVERTISEMENT DARLINGTON, S.C. — The past will play an important role in the future of Fayetteville Christian School. The school was the recipient of 248 sets of unused tickets from Darlington Raceway’s 1950 inaugural season. Each set includes a ticket from the Southern 500 — NASCAR’s first superspeedway race — as well as those for AMA motorcycle and AAA National Championship Trail events later that year. The ticket sets could be worth as much as $2 million toward the more than $20 million it will take to build a new school in western Cumberland County, said Perry Melton, Fayetteville Christian’s Director of Development. Two of the sets have been given away. The Smithsonian’s American History Museum in Washington, D.C., has one set in its sports collection, and the Darlington Raceway Museum possesses the other. The remaining 246 sets are under contract until July 30 to Antiquity Americana, which is trying to sell the lot to a single corporate buyer, Melton said. Once that deadline passes, the school will either renegotiate with Antiquity Americana or make them available to the public. If a corporate sale is unsuccessful, “We’ll probably put them up for bid with Sotheby’s or on eBay’s charitable auction site,” Melton said. “Whatever the market bears, that’s what they’ll go for.” The tickets were a gift from Ralph K. Anderson III, a South Carolina administrative law court judge. Anderson and his father were friends with Darlington founder Harold Brasington, and Anderson III is also friends with several people connected with Fayetteville Christian School. Hearing that the school has plans to move from its Ireland Drive location to a larger site, Anderson donated the tickets to help boost the building fund. “They’re the real deal,” said Daytona Beach, Fla., native Buz McKim, the former director of NASCAR’s archives department. “I’d give them a big 10-4. There’s a certain amount of trust involved in these kinds of things and the story was compelling. When you work around this kind of stuff, you have a feel for what’s bogus. They look real to me.” Brasington built the track after seeing the Indianapolis 500. He intended to construct a half-scale, 1.25-mile version of the famed Brickyard, but wound up with an egg-shaped speedway. The smaller end was purposely designed that way to avoid disturbing a fishing pond owned by his friend Sherman Ramsey, who donated the land for the track. “There’s a lot of interest in the old stuff here with the people who visit our museum, more than the new stuff,” said Chris Browning, the president of Darlington Raceway. “It’s really cool. I’d love to have a set of those tickets myself.” Motor sports editor Thomas Pope can be reached at popet@fayettevillenc.com or 486-3520.