1968 Peach State 200 1968 Peach State 200 The 1968 Peach State 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on November 3, 1968, at Jefco Speedway in Jefferson, Georgia. The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s; most of the cars were trailered to events or hauled in by trucks. Two hundred laps were completed on an oval track spanning . The race took one hour,
James and the Giant Peach Thereafter, James and the bugs approach New York City; whereupon the military, police, fire department, and rescue services are all called, and people flee to air raid shelters and subway stations, mistaking the peach to be a bomb and believing the city is about to be destroyed. A huge passenger jet flies past the giant peach and severs the silken strings connecting the seagulls to the peach, which is then impaled upon the mast of the Empire State Building. The people on the 86th floor at first believe the inhabitants of the peach to be monsters but when James appears