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Racing Past; Ford's racing roots began with Sweepstakes.(Ford 100)

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Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON

It's a race car. Really. It has no nifty painted numbers on it or advertising logos-not even one for its maker-but it's a genuine high-performance racing machine, direct ancestor to the GT40 and the Talladega, the Lotus 49 and the No. 9 NASCAR T-Bird that made Awesome Bill a millionaire. It's a few days before The Winston race and today, on the one-fifth-mile oval outside Turn Three at Lowe's Motor Speedway, usual home to Legends mini-car races, we're going to both ride on and drive this 26-hp thoroughbred. The prospect makes us a little anxious.

It's called the Sweepstakes, it dates to 1901, and it's the prize-winning stud that ...

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