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Clyde Minter

American stock car racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ66142170 ↗
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Clyde Dillard Minter (October 15, 1921 – December 21, 1971) was an American stock car racing driver. Minter competed in 42 NASCAR Grand National Series races between 1949 and 1955, where he reached the top-ten a total of 19 times. Minter died on December 21, 1971.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Clyde Minter” as american stock car racer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 1971, 1949, 1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Clyde, Minter and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american stock car racer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q66142170. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1971, 1949 and 1955.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clyde Minter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.