You've heard me speak many times of the amazing Late Model Sportsman rides built by his father-in-law, Robert Gee for Dale Earnhardt. This opening ESPN segment of the 1983 Coca-Cola 200 Budweiswer Late Model Sportsman Series event at Rockingham shows the car on the pole. That's where it started and that's where it finished. The car carried #15 with its blue & yellow Wrangler colors to match the car number on Dale's Bud Moore Winston Cup ride. This same Pontiac Ventura would later be re-skinned as a Chevy Nova and carry Goodwrench sponsorship.
That last place finisher, John Linville, was the father of Kevin Harvick's wife, Delana.
1983 Coca-Cola 200
NASCAR Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series race number 3 of 35
March 5, 1983 at North Carolina Motor Speedway, Rockingham, NC
197 laps* on a 1.017 mile paved track (200.3 miles)
Time of race: 1:36:57
Average Speed: 91.892 mph
Pole Speed: 141.027 mph Cautions: n/a
Fin St # Driver Sponsor / Owner Car Laps Money Status Led Points
1 1 15 Dale Earnhardt Wrangler (Robert Gee) Pontiac 148 7,500 running 92 180
2 7 88 Bobby Allison Frank Plessinger Pontiac 148 4,250 running 0 170
3 14 01 Butch Lindley Oldsmobile 148 4,250 running 0 165
4 23 34 L.D. Ottinger Fred Kelly Pontiac 148 2,550 running 0 160
5 32 70 Bosco Lowe Pontiac 148 1,900 running 0 155
6 2 75 Neil Bonnett Hodgdon (Butch Mock) Pontiac 148 1,700 running 41 150
7 17 6 Tommy Houston Mike Day Oldsmobile 147 2,300 running 0 146
8 4 11 Jack Ingram J.W. Hunt Produce (Jack Ingram) Oldsmobile 147 2,500 running 0 142
9 10 28 Phil Parsons Johnny Hayes Pontiac 146 900 running 0 138
10 8 1 Pete Silva Pontiac 146 850 running 0 134
11 11 12 Tommy Ellis Pontiac 146 1,770 running 0 130
12 6 00 Sam Ard Howard Thomas Oldsmobile 146 1,750 running 15 127
13 12 32 Dale Jarrett PET Dairy (Horace Isenhower) Pontiac 144 725 running 0 124
14 9 26 John Utsman Oldsmobile 144 700 running 0 121
15 20 35 Barry Bostick Pontiac 141 675 crash 0 118
16 33 69 Junior Miller Junior Miller Buick 140 650 running 0 115
17 29 56 Howard Rose Pontiac 139 600 running 0 112
18 26 67 Glen Armstrong Chevrolet 139 575 running 0 109
19 18 95 Bubba Nissen Pontiac 138 550 crash 0 106
20 28 97 Harry Lee Hill Harry Lee Hill Pontiac 135 525 crash 0 103
21 36 61 Ronnie Silver Pontiac 133 450 crash 0 100
22 35 91 Danny Weese Pontiac 131 425 running 0 97
23 5 89 Geoffrey Bodine Pontiac 118 420 crash 0 94
24 30 37 Chip Lain Pontiac 103 415 engine 0 91
25 15 23 Davey Allison Bobby Allison Pontiac 91 410 crash 0 88
26 13 52 Morgan Shepherd Ed Whitaker Pontiac 90 405 crash 0 85
27 24 86 Mike Watts Pontiac 87 400 crash 0 82
28 21 29 Satch Worley Buddy Arrington Dodge 73 395 transmission 0 79
29 16 24 Glenn Jarrett Marvin Thackston Ford 69 385 rear end 0 76
30 19 50 Larry Hoopaugh Ford 67 380 engine 0 73
31 3 21 Larry Pearson Chattanooga Chew (David Pearson) Pontiac 37 380 crash 0 70
32 31 03 J.D. McDuffie Chevrolet 28 375 steering 0 67
33 25 33 George Dalton Pontiac 21 360 engine 0 64
34 22 42 Allan Powell Pontiac 19 355 brakes 0 61
35 34 68 Lamar Grover Pontiac 8 350 crash 0 58
36 27 62 John Linville John Linville Pontiac 3 350 oil pump 0 55
Stats from Racing Reference
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
