Via, Roland. "Gentlemen, Start Your MemoriesLocals Claim Their Place in Racing History.

" Banjo
Matthews. 8 June 2012. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.
This website is one of the best websites I have found. It is sort of an overview of his career as a
whole. The article starts out talking about Banjos career as a race car driver at a young age. He was 15
when he first started racing and decided then he was going to make a career out of it. Banjo raced for a
little less than 20 years on asphalt and dirt. After that he stopped racing personally and began to build
the race cars for other drivers. This enhances my knowledge about him, because at this point in time I
didnt know much and this gave me a quick overview of him personally.
This article helped me to gain some basic knowledge of Banjo and what he did in the racing
industry. It is an overview. It goes into detail on some of the information such as the numerical values in
how many races he won or how many races his team cars won.

"NASCAR Scrapbook: Banjo Matthews - The Henry Ford of Race Cars." Circle Track. 1 Feb. 1997. Web. 20
Oct. 2014.
This website relates to the first one in a very close way. This website has a lot of the information
that the one above has, except this site has a more personal outlook. There is a few quotes from Banjos
fellow racers and teammates. Banjo was thought highly of by his competitors and his cars were also
highly respected. This gives me Banjos social status among the industry and how he became the Henry
Ford of race cars.
The website takes the stance of the public view on Banjo. This allows me to gain some
background on who liked him and who didnt. Most people liked Banjo, but every now and then tension
between some rose. Overall he was a well-liked and respected man who was a legend in the sport. I can
use the friendship and feuds in my paper.

"'Iron Man' Jack Ingram's Career Spanned Multiple Racing Eras." SpeedwayMediacom RSS. 24 Jan. 2014.
Web. 21 Oct. 2014.
This site has Banjo as a crew chief of one of the drivers. This driver is Jack Ingram, who is also a
legend of his own. He raced in the town of Asheville NC, which just so happens to be where I grew up.
Banjo also raced there and lived there for a majority of his life. Banjo did almost every job you can
possibly do in the NASCAR industry. All of the sites so far have a lot of matching information, so it all
seems to be authentic.
My connection to this topic is that Banjo and Jack lives/lived in Asheville, NC. I also live in
Asheville and have met Jack multiple times. My Uncle also dated the mother of Jacks grandkids in the
early 1990s.

Sarzynski, Brian. "Gentlemen, Start Your Memories." Mountain Xpress. 24 Sept. 2003. Web. 21 Oct.
2014.
The article here tells about Banjo and his roots in Asheville. Asheville used to be huge on the
racing scale. Asheville slowly fell off the grid later in the 1990s. The track is no longer used for racing, but
is a local attraction. The biggest names in NASCAR raced there back in the late 1900s. Now that history
of the Asheville community is none existent and hardly talked about.
This part of history interests me because I grew up just minutes from that track. Ive been there
multiple times to walk the track until I was told it used to be used as a short track race track back in the
day. I always thought it was just a small circuit track, but no it was a big name race track in its time
period.
"Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials." Find A Grave - Millions of
Cemetery Records and Online Memorials. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.
The find a grave website is extremely helpful, because it allows me to track Banjo back into his
early childhood. It has a link to his mother on the site, who died after him sadly. There is not much on
the childhood of Banjo, but there is a little about his teenage years. He began racing at the young age of