I suspect this isn't much of a quiz and everybody probably already knew the answer, but Pearson & Trickle definitely shared one common trait. I always remember Buddy Baker talking abot how Pearson flicked his cigarette at him as he passed by going in the corner.
It would've been a cigar lighter, lol.
Pearson used to tape chewing gum to the dash? His Purolator Mercury at the NASCAR Hall of Fame had it.
Maybe to get the tar out of his mouth. He still smokes, when he was 2010 Grand Marshall at the Moonshine Festival, he was driving his old #3 in the parade wheel in one hand and cig in the other. haha
This should go over on the drag racing site but Bob Glidden taped cigarettes to the door of his Pro Stock car to smoke coming back down the return road.
Ya know even older than the Winston era, lots of drivers from the 40's and 50's would get cigars (sometimes unlit or lit) to keep the dirt from clogging their throats and lungs. Red Byron was known for this.
Jim, if you remember, that red shop rag in his mouth was why folks initially thought Richard had been seriously injured in his Darlington pit wall & rollover encounter.
I watched two-time (1962 & 1963) NASCAR National Modified Champion of Richmond (Glen Allen, Va.) EDDIE CROUSE drive many a modified race with a cigar hanging out at Southside, South Boston and Langley Field. CARL HORTON was hardly ever seen at Wilson or Wake County in his Late Model without his ever present cigar. 
Fun thread. I remember Todd Bettenhausen, son of Gary, had posted a pic of an ingenius device they had come up with on the fly in order to allow Gary to smoke one during a long red flag one time later in the his career when full-face helmets were the norm in Indycar racing. Wish I could find that pic.
