The statue stands in a tidy brick plaza just off Main Street, in a part of downtown Kannapolis, N.C., that was once in the shadow of a textile mill. Dale Earnhardt, all nine feet and 900 bronze-cast pounds of him, stares down with that little smirk, his arms folded, looking as sharp as ever in his Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots.
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