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Like Elvis, Dale Earnhardt's legend lives on.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. _ Like a cross reverently fixed to a country church's steeple, a large No. 3 _ six feet of hand-carved wood painted to a sparkling black sheen _ is nailed to the side of a clapboard home along Route 52, several miles south of here.
Eighteen months after Dale Earnhardt's death, the number _ as well as the image, the memory and the legend _ of the wildly popular driver lives on in this NASCAR-crazed corner of America as intensely as Elvis Presley's legacy hovers over Memphis.
Earnhardt's dramatic demise _ at age 49, in a crash near the finish of the 2001 Daytona 500 _ transformed him from racing legend to cultural icon. In death, perhaps more than in life, the black-clad, sneering, fearless "Intimidator" has become a symbol, not just of NASCAR, but of daring and defiant independence.
"These people love him because he was one of them, one of the boys," said Ron Hyatt, a NASCAR enthusiast and a professor with the University of North Carolina's department of exercise and sports science. "He raced on the edge. He didn't back down."
And while this cult of affection might be most evident amid his _ and NASCAR's _ rural Carolina roots, it exists wherever motor racing is popular.
Recently, a busload of fans from Vermont ...
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