33rd Annual Piedmont Racing Expo & Auction
Listing ID#: 89570

Auction Location

Raleigh, NC 27607
Auction Dates and TimesSALE IS COMPLETED
Friday Jan 18, 2019 Completed
Saturday Jan 19, 2019 Completed
Auction Type
 Live Auction 
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Funwood Auction

Contact: Kenneth Smithey
Phone: 336-344-8400
Email: funwoodauction@bellsouth.net
Website: funwoodauction.com

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Listing Terms and Conditions
TERMS: CASH, "APPROVED CHECK", CREDIT CARD, NO CHECKS, LOCAL OR OUT OF STATE, PERSONAL OR BUSINESS WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL AND A BANK LETTER OF GUARANTEE. (MUST BE APPROVED ATLEAST 3 DAYS PRIOR TO AUCTION DATE) 10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO PURCHASE PRICE. A 3% SURCHARGE WILL BE ADDED TO ALL CREDIT CARD PURCHASES. ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS WHERE IS WITH NO GUARANTEE WRITTEN OR IMPLIED, NO REFUNDS OR RETURNS NO EXCEPTIONS, PLEASE INSPECT ALL ITEMS BEFORE BIDDING, ALL ITEMS MUST BE PAID FOR ON DAY OF SALE, MUST HAVE PAID RECEIPT IN ORDER TO PICK UP FROM IMPOUND AREA. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS IN OR ON PROPERTY, ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE DAY OF SALE SUPERCEDE ANY PRINTED OR WRITTEN MATERIAL! ALL ITEMS MUST BE REMOVED FROM BUILDING BY 8PM JANUARY 19th 2019
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33rd Annual Piedmont Racing Expo & Auction

MOTORSPORTS TRADE SHOW, AUCTION & 

RALEIGH FAIRGROUNDS SPEEDWAY RACER’S REUNION

 

2 Days! Friday-Saturday, 

January 18th & 19th, 2019

 

Held at The North Carolina State Fairgrounds, in the Expo Building

1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

 

Event & Show Sponsorship available now!

Call Kenneth to showcase you business at 336-344-8400

 

Check Website for updates and more details!

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

 

Join us as we celebrate our

33rd  year for our Annual Short Track Motorsports Trade Show, Racer’s Reunion and Auction. 

We invite you to join us in our third decade of servicing short-track racers across the Southeast US including racers from NC, SC, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Indiana, West Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee. 

     Our shows are well respected in racing circles and our event is the longest running annual trade show and auction in the Southeast United States.

  This racing expo is the perfect place for vendors to showcase products and services to the racing community.  Our racing clientele includes short-track stock car racers, dirt track racers, vintage/old-timer racers, drag racers, plus muscle car and street rod enthusiasts.   We provide a targeted audience of potential customers for you.  Come on out and join us to jumpstart 2019!

 

 

Consignments Wanted!!!!

If you have new or used circle track or drag racing parts, cars, haulers, tools, racing equipment, trailers, safety equipment, complete engines, engine parts, transmissions, rear ends, street rod parts, rat rod parts, shocks, rolling chassis, NOS parts, wheels, firesuits, helmets, radios, vintage cars, vintage parts, or anything related to racing!

Call or email to reserve Lot numbers for your items!

Contact info:
Kenneth Smithey

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.
126 Citty Store Road,
Reidsville, NC 27320


Phone: 336-344-8400 


Email: kenneth@piedmontracingexpo.com

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

www.funwoodauction.com

 

(Note: Pre-Registered Lot numbers must be paid for in advance and if not confirmed by 2 pm on Thursday will be reassigned on a first come first served basis!) 

 

 

 

 

 

9th Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway

Racer’s Reunion

Former Grand National Driver Gene Hobby of Apex, NC, our Grand Marshall for the Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion, Saturday, from 11am-3pm, has been on the phone contacting our legendary drivers and family members inviting them to the Ninth Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion. We will also have many members of Bill Mangum's Virginia-Carolina Early Dirt Racer's Association with us. We will be conducting interviews and get 1st hand racing stories from behind the scenes of the past!

The following drivers, crew members, promotors and associates are expected to attend:  

Robin Agner, China Grove, NC
Wayne Andrews, Staley, NC
Billy & Karen Biscoe, Denton, NC
Hank Thomas, Winston Salem, NC
Bill Blair, Thomasville, NC
J.D. Blue, Carthage, NC
David Boggs, Rock Hill, SC
Johnny Handy, Greensboro, NC
Raymond Williams, Hillsborough, NC
Jerry Earl Hatcher, Mt. Airy, NC
Roy Hendrick, Mosely, VA
Bob Hissom, Denver, NC
Ray Lamm, RIchmond, VA
Bill Mangum, Danville, VA
H. L. "Peanut" Turman, Dugspur, VA

Larry Laney, Randleman, NC
Randy Myers, King, NC
Dink Widenhouse, Concord, NC
Lloyd Lane, Concord, NC
Terry Anderson, Lenoir NC
Gene Hobby, Apex, NC
Laura Pugh, Gretna, VA
Larry Glenn, Bunn, NC
Johnny Dolen, Winston Salem, NC
Garland Rickets, South Boston, VA
Wallace Smith, Durham, NC
Robbie Watson, Durham, NC
Wayne McGhee, Hillsborough, NC

Issace "Pete" Dease, Oxford, NC
Earl Arnold, Clayton, NC
Red Justice, Burlington, NC
Monk Tate, Draper, NC
Ronnie Hartsville, Apex, NC

Gary Lewallen

Kent Fogleman

Clyde Mangum

Ray Lamm

Ronnie Thomas

Gary Myers

Randy Myers

Chocolate Myers

Tiger Tom Pistone

Gary Lloyd

Phillip Walker

Clyde Still



Other drivers who ran at this famed 1/2 Mile Dirt Track and other Regional Tracks are invited to attend. 

Please check in at the Fairgrounds Speedway Desk in the Expo Bldg. Lobby.  

We honor the memory of the the following Friends of the Piedmont Racing Expo and the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion:

Carl Horton - 2018

* Carlton Pugh (2016) * Donnie Carver (Flagman, 2016) * Phil Finley (2015) * Maurice Hill (2015) * Earl Sears (2015) * Jim Massey (2015) * Glen McDuffie (2015) Rickey Page (2015) * Senator Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr. (2014) * Bobby Proctor Sr.(2014) * Ronnie Barnette (2013) * Rodney Cook (2013) * Dan Honeycutt  *  Margaret Moss Cooper  *  Donnie Watson  *  Larry Dease  *  Cecil Gordon  *  James Jones  * Bill Hollar* Wayne Patterson * and others that we may not know about

Last year’s reunion had 35 Legendary Drivers show up to sign autographs, take photos, share scrapbooks and tell old racing stories in their own words!   

Special thanks to Billy and Karen Biscoe for taking care of all the drivers at check in and setting up lunch for them again!

A Big Thanks to Bill Blair and Tim Leeming for all the Driver interviews and stories that tell the history of our sport! We will definitely be doing this again in 2019!

See legendary drivers and more at the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion on

Saturday, January 19th, 2019 from 11am-3pm.

See several Vintage Race Cars on display along with one of Richard Petty's race cars from the Petty Museum. 

Richard won the last NASCAR Grand National Race held on Dirt here at Raleigh on the 1/2 mile Fairgrounds Speedway track!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Racing Products & Business Vendors

 

Again we plan to have a great group of vendors with anything any racer would need!

We invite you to come Showcase your business!

Booths are available from as small as 10x10 up to 20x60.

  Vendors offer all kinds of Services and Promote many Products:

 Parts Dealers, Safety Equipment, Graphics, Fuels, Chassis Parts, Go Karts, Race Tracks, Race Cars, Drag Cars, Financial advice, Trailers, Engines, Racing Touring Series, Food, Tires, Upcoming Shows, Local Events, Charities, Car Shows, Racing News, Racing History, Racing Simulators, T-shirts, Uniforms, Vintage Racing Cars, Drag Racing Venues, Racing Services, and much more!

If you have a business or product you would like to promote during our event please contact us and Reserve your space early!



            Vendor Setup:

   

            Thu. 8am-5pm, Fri. 7am-10am


            Friday:    

            10AM..............Doors Open

            12noon-8pm+/-..Racers Auction 

            10am   -9pm .....Trade Show-Car Corral

            Saturday:  
            8am.................Doors open
            9am-5pm+/- ......Racers Auction
            8am-4pm ..........Trade Show-Car Corral
            11am-3pm.........8th  Annual Racers Reunion and
                                        Autograph Session for Raleigh
                                        Fairgrounds Speedway's Legendary
                                        Drivers sponsored by Holley Carbs and
                                       

                                                                                          

Vendors from 2017:

VIRGINIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

RALEIGH RACER'S REUNION GROUP

HISTORIC SPEEDWAY GROUP

RACERSREUNION.COM

SOUTHERN GROUND POUNDERS

CCAF CAROLINA COLLECTOR AUTO FEST

CHAMBERS - EXPO RACE CAR

PERFORMANCE TEES

4 BOYZ RACING SUPPLY

WINNERS CIRLCE

CREDIT DIVA

MOUNT JUBILEE MINISTRIES

SOUTH EAST LIMITED LATE MODEL

TRI-STAR RACE UNIFORMS

RENEGADE RACE FUEL

602 SUPER LIMITED LATE MODELS SERIES

CLARY'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY

BOWMAN GRAY LEGENDS OF THE MADHOUSE

CARTERETTE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

WAKE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

HOWELL RACE PRODUCTS

LEAF FILTER GUTTER SYSTEM

JC'S RACE PARTS

EAST CAROLINA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

SOUTHERN NATIONAL SPEEDWAY

SMITHEY’S FUNWOOD AUCTION

RACING ELECTRONICS

HANK THOMAS RACING

EDWARD JONES

JRP KART PERFORMANCE & PARTS

ACCELERATED GRAPHICS

KINGFISH SPEEDWAY

 

RACE CARS:

MARTY ROBBINS #777

FIREBALL ROBERTS CAR #22

#57 KECK CAR

TALBERT TRIBUTE CAR #68

GENE HOBBY TRIBUTE CAR #99

MIKE & PEGGY DONOHUE’S “THE SHOW” MUD TRUCK 





Event Schedule

Friday-Saturday, January 18th and 19th , 2019

Location:  State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

Building:  Expo Building (Consignors and Vendors, please check in at the Rear of the Expo Building.

Last year's Auction was almost full at over 1100 lots even with a snow xtorm! 

Get your numbers reserved early this year! Don't be left out!

Pre-register your Lot Numbers early for $2.00 each to reserve your spots in the auction. 

Due Date is January 4th 2019

 200 lot numbers Guaranteed to be available at check in on 1st come 1st serve basis on Thursday January 17th 2019

No Lot numbers will be reserved unless payment is received by January 4th  2019.

To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.



Auction Commission Schedule:

Minimum Per Lot Fee is:        $5.00

$ 1.00 - $25.00:   $5.00 Minumum

$25.01- $199.99:      25%

$200.00-$299.99:       20%

$300.00-$699.99        15%

$700.00-$999.99        10%

$1000.00-$3999.99      5%

$4000.00 and up:     $200.00 Max.

Reserve FEE= 1/2 Regular Commission based on Reserve Price

No Reserves on Items Valued Less than $200

NO LOTS WILL BE PRE-REGISTERED WITHOUT PAYMENT.  
To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, or use back of Post Card Mailer and complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.  (SEE EVENT SCHEDULE FOR CONSIGNMENT TIMES)

Make all checks out to:

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.

 

Consignment Check in Times:  

Wednesday January 16th   10am-8pm

Thursday  January 17th   8am-4pm



(NOTE):  Pre-Registered Lot Numbers will need to be confirmed by 12pm on Thursday, otherwise they will be available on a first come, first served basis with no refunds) 

Vendor Setup Times: Thu 12noon-8pm
                    Fri  8am-10am

Show Hours:         

Fri  10am-9pm  (auction starts at 12 Noon)

                                         

Sat 8am until  (auction starts at 9am)

Admission: 

 Adults: $10/day

 Ages 12-15 $5/Day

children Under 12 Free

 

Find more info about us on Facebook

Or either of our Web Sites

www.piedmontracing expo.com

www.funwoodauction.com

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Contact: Kenneth Smithey
Phone: 336-344-8400
Sale Location
1025 Blue Ridge Road 1025 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
Sale Dates and Times
Friday Jan 18, 2019 Completed
Saturday Jan 19, 2019 Completed
Sale Terms and Conditions
TERMS: CASH, "APPROVED CHECK", CREDIT CARD, NO CHECKS, LOCAL OR OUT OF STATE, PERSONAL OR BUSINESS WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL AND A BANK LETTER OF GUARANTEE. (MUST BE APPROVED ATLEAST 3 DAYS PRIOR TO AUCTION DATE) 10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO PURCHASE PRICE. A 3% SURCHARGE WILL BE ADDED TO ALL CREDIT CARD PURCHASES. ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS WHERE IS WITH NO GUARANTEE WRITTEN OR IMPLIED, NO REFUNDS OR RETURNS NO EXCEPTIONS, PLEASE INSPECT ALL ITEMS BEFORE BIDDING, ALL ITEMS MUST BE PAID FOR ON DAY OF SALE, MUST HAVE PAID RECEIPT IN ORDER TO PICK UP FROM IMPOUND AREA. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS IN OR ON PROPERTY, ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE DAY OF SALE SUPERCEDE ANY PRINTED OR WRITTEN MATERIAL! ALL ITEMS MUST BE REMOVED FROM BUILDING BY 8PM JANUARY 19th 2019
Listing Details

33rd Annual Piedmont Racing Expo & Auction

MOTORSPORTS TRADE SHOW, AUCTION & 

RALEIGH FAIRGROUNDS SPEEDWAY RACER’S REUNION

 

2 Days! Friday-Saturday, 

January 18th & 19th, 2019

 

Held at The North Carolina State Fairgrounds, in the Expo Building

1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

 

Event & Show Sponsorship available now!

Call Kenneth to showcase you business at 336-344-8400

 

Check Website for updates and more details!

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

 

Join us as we celebrate our

33rd  year for our Annual Short Track Motorsports Trade Show, Racer’s Reunion and Auction. 

We invite you to join us in our third decade of servicing short-track racers across the Southeast US including racers from NC, SC, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Indiana, West Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee. 

     Our shows are well respected in racing circles and our event is the longest running annual trade show and auction in the Southeast United States.

  This racing expo is the perfect place for vendors to showcase products and services to the racing community.  Our racing clientele includes short-track stock car racers, dirt track racers, vintage/old-timer racers, drag racers, plus muscle car and street rod enthusiasts.   We provide a targeted audience of potential customers for you.  Come on out and join us to jumpstart 2019!

 

 

Consignments Wanted!!!!

If you have new or used circle track or drag racing parts, cars, haulers, tools, racing equipment, trailers, safety equipment, complete engines, engine parts, transmissions, rear ends, street rod parts, rat rod parts, shocks, rolling chassis, NOS parts, wheels, firesuits, helmets, radios, vintage cars, vintage parts, or anything related to racing!

Call or email to reserve Lot numbers for your items!

Contact info:
Kenneth Smithey

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.
126 Citty Store Road,
Reidsville, NC 27320


Phone: 336-344-8400 


Email: kenneth@piedmontracingexpo.com

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

www.funwoodauction.com

 

(Note: Pre-Registered Lot numbers must be paid for in advance and if not confirmed by 2 pm on Thursday will be reassigned on a first come first served basis!) 

 

 

 

 

 

9th Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway

Racer’s Reunion

Former Grand National Driver Gene Hobby of Apex, NC, our Grand Marshall for the Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion, Saturday, from 11am-3pm, has been on the phone contacting our legendary drivers and family members inviting them to the Ninth Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion. We will also have many members of Bill Mangum's Virginia-Carolina Early Dirt Racer's Association with us. We will be conducting interviews and get 1st hand racing stories from behind the scenes of the past!

The following drivers, crew members, promotors and associates are expected to attend:  

Robin Agner, China Grove, NC
Wayne Andrews, Staley, NC
Billy & Karen Biscoe, Denton, NC
Hank Thomas, Winston Salem, NC
Bill Blair, Thomasville, NC
J.D. Blue, Carthage, NC
David Boggs, Rock Hill, SC
Johnny Handy, Greensboro, NC
Raymond Williams, Hillsborough, NC
Jerry Earl Hatcher, Mt. Airy, NC
Roy Hendrick, Mosely, VA
Bob Hissom, Denver, NC
Ray Lamm, RIchmond, VA
Bill Mangum, Danville, VA
H. L. "Peanut" Turman, Dugspur, VA

Larry Laney, Randleman, NC
Randy Myers, King, NC
Dink Widenhouse, Concord, NC
Lloyd Lane, Concord, NC
Terry Anderson, Lenoir NC
Gene Hobby, Apex, NC
Laura Pugh, Gretna, VA
Larry Glenn, Bunn, NC
Johnny Dolen, Winston Salem, NC
Garland Rickets, South Boston, VA
Wallace Smith, Durham, NC
Robbie Watson, Durham, NC
Wayne McGhee, Hillsborough, NC

Issace "Pete" Dease, Oxford, NC
Earl Arnold, Clayton, NC
Red Justice, Burlington, NC
Monk Tate, Draper, NC
Ronnie Hartsville, Apex, NC

Gary Lewallen

Kent Fogleman

Clyde Mangum

Ray Lamm

Ronnie Thomas

Gary Myers

Randy Myers

Chocolate Myers

Tiger Tom Pistone

Gary Lloyd

Phillip Walker

Clyde Still



Other drivers who ran at this famed 1/2 Mile Dirt Track and other Regional Tracks are invited to attend. 

Please check in at the Fairgrounds Speedway Desk in the Expo Bldg. Lobby.  

We honor the memory of the the following Friends of the Piedmont Racing Expo and the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion:

Carl Horton - 2018

* Carlton Pugh (2016) * Donnie Carver (Flagman, 2016) * Phil Finley (2015) * Maurice Hill (2015) * Earl Sears (2015) * Jim Massey (2015) * Glen McDuffie (2015) Rickey Page (2015) * Senator Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr. (2014) * Bobby Proctor Sr.(2014) * Ronnie Barnette (2013) * Rodney Cook (2013) * Dan Honeycutt  *  Margaret Moss Cooper  *  Donnie Watson  *  Larry Dease  *  Cecil Gordon  *  James Jones  * Bill Hollar* Wayne Patterson * and others that we may not know about

Last year’s reunion had 35 Legendary Drivers show up to sign autographs, take photos, share scrapbooks and tell old racing stories in their own words!   

Special thanks to Billy and Karen Biscoe for taking care of all the drivers at check in and setting up lunch for them again!

A Big Thanks to Bill Blair and Tim Leeming for all the Driver interviews and stories that tell the history of our sport! We will definitely be doing this again in 2019!

See legendary drivers and more at the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion on

Saturday, January 19th, 2019 from 11am-3pm.

See several Vintage Race Cars on display along with one of Richard Petty's race cars from the Petty Museum. 

Richard won the last NASCAR Grand National Race held on Dirt here at Raleigh on the 1/2 mile Fairgrounds Speedway track!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Racing Products & Business Vendors

 

Again we plan to have a great group of vendors with anything any racer would need!

We invite you to come Showcase your business!

Booths are available from as small as 10x10 up to 20x60.

  Vendors offer all kinds of Services and Promote many Products:

 Parts Dealers, Safety Equipment, Graphics, Fuels, Chassis Parts, Go Karts, Race Tracks, Race Cars, Drag Cars, Financial advice, Trailers, Engines, Racing Touring Series, Food, Tires, Upcoming Shows, Local Events, Charities, Car Shows, Racing News, Racing History, Racing Simulators, T-shirts, Uniforms, Vintage Racing Cars, Drag Racing Venues, Racing Services, and much more!

If you have a business or product you would like to promote during our event please contact us and Reserve your space early!



            Vendor Setup:

   

            Thu. 8am-5pm, Fri. 7am-10am


            Friday:    

            10AM..............Doors Open

            12noon-8pm+/-..Racers Auction 

            10am   -9pm .....Trade Show-Car Corral

            Saturday:  
            8am.................Doors open
            9am-5pm+/- ......Racers Auction
            8am-4pm ..........Trade Show-Car Corral
            11am-3pm.........8th  Annual Racers Reunion and
                                        Autograph Session for Raleigh
                                        Fairgrounds Speedway's Legendary
                                        Drivers sponsored by Holley Carbs and
                                       

                                                                                          

Vendors from 2017:

VIRGINIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

RALEIGH RACER'S REUNION GROUP

HISTORIC SPEEDWAY GROUP

RACERSREUNION.COM

SOUTHERN GROUND POUNDERS

CCAF CAROLINA COLLECTOR AUTO FEST

CHAMBERS - EXPO RACE CAR

PERFORMANCE TEES

4 BOYZ RACING SUPPLY

WINNERS CIRLCE

CREDIT DIVA

MOUNT JUBILEE MINISTRIES

SOUTH EAST LIMITED LATE MODEL

TRI-STAR RACE UNIFORMS

RENEGADE RACE FUEL

602 SUPER LIMITED LATE MODELS SERIES

CLARY'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY

BOWMAN GRAY LEGENDS OF THE MADHOUSE

CARTERETTE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

WAKE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

HOWELL RACE PRODUCTS

LEAF FILTER GUTTER SYSTEM

JC'S RACE PARTS

EAST CAROLINA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

SOUTHERN NATIONAL SPEEDWAY

SMITHEY’S FUNWOOD AUCTION

RACING ELECTRONICS

HANK THOMAS RACING

EDWARD JONES

JRP KART PERFORMANCE & PARTS

ACCELERATED GRAPHICS

KINGFISH SPEEDWAY

 

RACE CARS:

MARTY ROBBINS #777

FIREBALL ROBERTS CAR #22

#57 KECK CAR

TALBERT TRIBUTE CAR #68

GENE HOBBY TRIBUTE CAR #99

MIKE & PEGGY DONOHUE’S “THE SHOW” MUD TRUCK 





Event Schedule

Friday-Saturday, January 18th and 19th , 2019

Location:  State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

Building:  Expo Building (Consignors and Vendors, please check in at the Rear of the Expo Building.

Last year's Auction was almost full at over 1100 lots even with a snow xtorm! 

Get your numbers reserved early this year! Don't be left out!

Pre-register your Lot Numbers early for $2.00 each to reserve your spots in the auction. 

Due Date is January 4th 2019

 200 lot numbers Guaranteed to be available at check in on 1st come 1st serve basis on Thursday January 17th 2019

No Lot numbers will be reserved unless payment is received by January 4th  2019.

To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.



Auction Commission Schedule:

Minimum Per Lot Fee is:        $5.00

$ 1.00 - $25.00:   $5.00 Minumum

$25.01- $199.99:      25%

$200.00-$299.99:       20%

$300.00-$699.99        15%

$700.00-$999.99        10%

$1000.00-$3999.99      5%

$4000.00 and up:     $200.00 Max.

Reserve FEE= 1/2 Regular Commission based on Reserve Price

No Reserves on Items Valued Less than $200

NO LOTS WILL BE PRE-REGISTERED WITHOUT PAYMENT.  
To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, or use back of Post Card Mailer and complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.  (SEE EVENT SCHEDULE FOR CONSIGNMENT TIMES)

Make all checks out to:

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.

 

Consignment Check in Times:  

Wednesday January 16th   10am-8pm

Thursday  January 17th   8am-4pm



(NOTE):  Pre-Registered Lot Numbers will need to be confirmed by 12pm on Thursday, otherwise they will be available on a first come, first served basis with no refunds) 

Vendor Setup Times: Thu 12noon-8pm
                    Fri  8am-10am

Show Hours:         

Fri  10am-9pm  (auction starts at 12 Noon)

                                         

Sat 8am until  (auction starts at 9am)

Admission: 

 Adults: $10/day

 Ages 12-15 $5/Day

children Under 12 Free

 

Find more info about us on Facebook

Or either of our Web Sites

www.piedmontracing expo.com

www.funwoodauction.com

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33rd Annual Piedmont Racing Expo & Auction
 Live Auction
 
Auction Date(s)
Friday Jan 18, 2019 Completed
Saturday Jan 19, 2019 Completed
Auction Location

Raleigh, NC 27607
Company
Funwood Auction

Contact: Kenneth Smithey
Phone: 336-344-8400
Website: funwoodauction.com

Listing Terms and Conditions
TERMS: CASH, "APPROVED CHECK", CREDIT CARD, NO CHECKS, LOCAL OR OUT OF STATE, PERSONAL OR BUSINESS WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL AND A BANK LETTER OF GUARANTEE. (MUST BE APPROVED ATLEAST 3 DAYS PRIOR TO AUCTION DATE) 10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO PURCHASE PRICE. A 3% SURCHARGE WILL BE ADDED TO ALL CREDIT CARD PURCHASES. ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS WHERE IS WITH NO GUARANTEE WRITTEN OR IMPLIED, NO REFUNDS OR RETURNS NO EXCEPTIONS, PLEASE INSPECT ALL ITEMS BEFORE BIDDING, ALL ITEMS MUST BE PAID FOR ON DAY OF SALE, MUST HAVE PAID RECEIPT IN ORDER TO PICK UP FROM IMPOUND AREA. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS IN OR ON PROPERTY, ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE DAY OF SALE SUPERCEDE ANY PRINTED OR WRITTEN MATERIAL! ALL ITEMS MUST BE REMOVED FROM BUILDING BY 8PM JANUARY 19th 2019

33rd Annual Piedmont Racing Expo & Auction

MOTORSPORTS TRADE SHOW, AUCTION & 

RALEIGH FAIRGROUNDS SPEEDWAY RACER’S REUNION

 

2 Days! Friday-Saturday, 

January 18th & 19th, 2019

 

Held at The North Carolina State Fairgrounds, in the Expo Building

1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

 

Event & Show Sponsorship available now!

Call Kenneth to showcase you business at 336-344-8400

 

Check Website for updates and more details!

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

 

Join us as we celebrate our

33rd  year for our Annual Short Track Motorsports Trade Show, Racer’s Reunion and Auction. 

We invite you to join us in our third decade of servicing short-track racers across the Southeast US including racers from NC, SC, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Indiana, West Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee. 

     Our shows are well respected in racing circles and our event is the longest running annual trade show and auction in the Southeast United States.

  This racing expo is the perfect place for vendors to showcase products and services to the racing community.  Our racing clientele includes short-track stock car racers, dirt track racers, vintage/old-timer racers, drag racers, plus muscle car and street rod enthusiasts.   We provide a targeted audience of potential customers for you.  Come on out and join us to jumpstart 2019!

 

 

Consignments Wanted!!!!

If you have new or used circle track or drag racing parts, cars, haulers, tools, racing equipment, trailers, safety equipment, complete engines, engine parts, transmissions, rear ends, street rod parts, rat rod parts, shocks, rolling chassis, NOS parts, wheels, firesuits, helmets, radios, vintage cars, vintage parts, or anything related to racing!

Call or email to reserve Lot numbers for your items!

Contact info:
Kenneth Smithey

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.
126 Citty Store Road,
Reidsville, NC 27320


Phone: 336-344-8400 


Email: kenneth@piedmontracingexpo.com

www.piedmontracingexpo.com

www.funwoodauction.com

 

(Note: Pre-Registered Lot numbers must be paid for in advance and if not confirmed by 2 pm on Thursday will be reassigned on a first come first served basis!) 

 

 

 

 

 

9th Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway

Racer’s Reunion

Former Grand National Driver Gene Hobby of Apex, NC, our Grand Marshall for the Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion, Saturday, from 11am-3pm, has been on the phone contacting our legendary drivers and family members inviting them to the Ninth Annual Raleigh Fairgrounds Speedway Racer's Reunion. We will also have many members of Bill Mangum's Virginia-Carolina Early Dirt Racer's Association with us. We will be conducting interviews and get 1st hand racing stories from behind the scenes of the past!

The following drivers, crew members, promotors and associates are expected to attend:  

Robin Agner, China Grove, NC
Wayne Andrews, Staley, NC
Billy & Karen Biscoe, Denton, NC
Hank Thomas, Winston Salem, NC
Bill Blair, Thomasville, NC
J.D. Blue, Carthage, NC
David Boggs, Rock Hill, SC
Johnny Handy, Greensboro, NC
Raymond Williams, Hillsborough, NC
Jerry Earl Hatcher, Mt. Airy, NC
Roy Hendrick, Mosely, VA
Bob Hissom, Denver, NC
Ray Lamm, RIchmond, VA
Bill Mangum, Danville, VA
H. L. "Peanut" Turman, Dugspur, VA

Larry Laney, Randleman, NC
Randy Myers, King, NC
Dink Widenhouse, Concord, NC
Lloyd Lane, Concord, NC
Terry Anderson, Lenoir NC
Gene Hobby, Apex, NC
Laura Pugh, Gretna, VA
Larry Glenn, Bunn, NC
Johnny Dolen, Winston Salem, NC
Garland Rickets, South Boston, VA
Wallace Smith, Durham, NC
Robbie Watson, Durham, NC
Wayne McGhee, Hillsborough, NC

Issace "Pete" Dease, Oxford, NC
Earl Arnold, Clayton, NC
Red Justice, Burlington, NC
Monk Tate, Draper, NC
Ronnie Hartsville, Apex, NC

Gary Lewallen

Kent Fogleman

Clyde Mangum

Ray Lamm

Ronnie Thomas

Gary Myers

Randy Myers

Chocolate Myers

Tiger Tom Pistone

Gary Lloyd

Phillip Walker

Clyde Still



Other drivers who ran at this famed 1/2 Mile Dirt Track and other Regional Tracks are invited to attend. 

Please check in at the Fairgrounds Speedway Desk in the Expo Bldg. Lobby.  

We honor the memory of the the following Friends of the Piedmont Racing Expo and the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion:

Carl Horton - 2018

* Carlton Pugh (2016) * Donnie Carver (Flagman, 2016) * Phil Finley (2015) * Maurice Hill (2015) * Earl Sears (2015) * Jim Massey (2015) * Glen McDuffie (2015) Rickey Page (2015) * Senator Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr. (2014) * Bobby Proctor Sr.(2014) * Ronnie Barnette (2013) * Rodney Cook (2013) * Dan Honeycutt  *  Margaret Moss Cooper  *  Donnie Watson  *  Larry Dease  *  Cecil Gordon  *  James Jones  * Bill Hollar* Wayne Patterson * and others that we may not know about

Last year’s reunion had 35 Legendary Drivers show up to sign autographs, take photos, share scrapbooks and tell old racing stories in their own words!   

Special thanks to Billy and Karen Biscoe for taking care of all the drivers at check in and setting up lunch for them again!

A Big Thanks to Bill Blair and Tim Leeming for all the Driver interviews and stories that tell the history of our sport! We will definitely be doing this again in 2019!

See legendary drivers and more at the Raleigh Fairgrounds Racers Reunion on

Saturday, January 19th, 2019 from 11am-3pm.

See several Vintage Race Cars on display along with one of Richard Petty's race cars from the Petty Museum. 

Richard won the last NASCAR Grand National Race held on Dirt here at Raleigh on the 1/2 mile Fairgrounds Speedway track!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Racing Products & Business Vendors

 

Again we plan to have a great group of vendors with anything any racer would need!

We invite you to come Showcase your business!

Booths are available from as small as 10x10 up to 20x60.

  Vendors offer all kinds of Services and Promote many Products:

 Parts Dealers, Safety Equipment, Graphics, Fuels, Chassis Parts, Go Karts, Race Tracks, Race Cars, Drag Cars, Financial advice, Trailers, Engines, Racing Touring Series, Food, Tires, Upcoming Shows, Local Events, Charities, Car Shows, Racing News, Racing History, Racing Simulators, T-shirts, Uniforms, Vintage Racing Cars, Drag Racing Venues, Racing Services, and much more!

If you have a business or product you would like to promote during our event please contact us and Reserve your space early!



            Vendor Setup:

   

            Thu. 8am-5pm, Fri. 7am-10am


            Friday:    

            10AM..............Doors Open

            12noon-8pm+/-..Racers Auction 

            10am   -9pm .....Trade Show-Car Corral

            Saturday:  
            8am.................Doors open
            9am-5pm+/- ......Racers Auction
            8am-4pm ..........Trade Show-Car Corral
            11am-3pm.........8th  Annual Racers Reunion and
                                        Autograph Session for Raleigh
                                        Fairgrounds Speedway's Legendary
                                        Drivers sponsored by Holley Carbs and
                                       

                                                                                          

Vendors from 2017:

VIRGINIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

RALEIGH RACER'S REUNION GROUP

HISTORIC SPEEDWAY GROUP

RACERSREUNION.COM

SOUTHERN GROUND POUNDERS

CCAF CAROLINA COLLECTOR AUTO FEST

CHAMBERS - EXPO RACE CAR

PERFORMANCE TEES

4 BOYZ RACING SUPPLY

WINNERS CIRLCE

CREDIT DIVA

MOUNT JUBILEE MINISTRIES

SOUTH EAST LIMITED LATE MODEL

TRI-STAR RACE UNIFORMS

RENEGADE RACE FUEL

602 SUPER LIMITED LATE MODELS SERIES

CLARY'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY

BOWMAN GRAY LEGENDS OF THE MADHOUSE

CARTERETTE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

WAKE COUNTY SPEEDWAY

HOWELL RACE PRODUCTS

LEAF FILTER GUTTER SYSTEM

JC'S RACE PARTS

EAST CAROLINA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

SOUTHERN NATIONAL SPEEDWAY

SMITHEY’S FUNWOOD AUCTION

RACING ELECTRONICS

HANK THOMAS RACING

EDWARD JONES

JRP KART PERFORMANCE & PARTS

ACCELERATED GRAPHICS

KINGFISH SPEEDWAY

 

RACE CARS:

MARTY ROBBINS #777

FIREBALL ROBERTS CAR #22

#57 KECK CAR

TALBERT TRIBUTE CAR #68

GENE HOBBY TRIBUTE CAR #99

MIKE & PEGGY DONOHUE’S “THE SHOW” MUD TRUCK 





Event Schedule

Friday-Saturday, January 18th and 19th , 2019

Location:  State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607

Building:  Expo Building (Consignors and Vendors, please check in at the Rear of the Expo Building.

Last year's Auction was almost full at over 1100 lots even with a snow xtorm! 

Get your numbers reserved early this year! Don't be left out!

Pre-register your Lot Numbers early for $2.00 each to reserve your spots in the auction. 

Due Date is January 4th 2019

 200 lot numbers Guaranteed to be available at check in on 1st come 1st serve basis on Thursday January 17th 2019

No Lot numbers will be reserved unless payment is received by January 4th  2019.

To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.



Auction Commission Schedule:

Minimum Per Lot Fee is:        $5.00

$ 1.00 - $25.00:   $5.00 Minumum

$25.01- $199.99:      25%

$200.00-$299.99:       20%

$300.00-$699.99        15%

$700.00-$999.99        10%

$1000.00-$3999.99      5%

$4000.00 and up:     $200.00 Max.

Reserve FEE= 1/2 Regular Commission based on Reserve Price

No Reserves on Items Valued Less than $200

NO LOTS WILL BE PRE-REGISTERED WITHOUT PAYMENT.  
To Pre-Register Lot numbers, please print the pre-registration form, or use back of Post Card Mailer and complete the form and return to the address on the form with your check before the due date.  (SEE EVENT SCHEDULE FOR CONSIGNMENT TIMES)

Make all checks out to:

Funwood Auction Sales & Trading Post Inc.

 

Consignment Check in Times:  

Wednesday January 16th   10am-8pm

Thursday  January 17th   8am-4pm



(NOTE):  Pre-Registered Lot Numbers will need to be confirmed by 12pm on Thursday, otherwise they will be available on a first come, first served basis with no refunds) 

Vendor Setup Times: Thu 12noon-8pm
                    Fri  8am-10am

Show Hours:         

Fri  10am-9pm  (auction starts at 12 Noon)

                                         

Sat 8am until  (auction starts at 9am)

Admission: 

 Adults: $10/day

 Ages 12-15 $5/Day

children Under 12 Free

 

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Or either of our Web Sites

www.piedmontracing expo.com

www.funwoodauction.com