This was fun last year so we are going to do it again...
updated by @stars-radio: 08/05/18 09:17:33PM
This was fun last year so we are going to do it again...
Jack Smith, Darlington,1958 
46 to go - Bobby Johns in 1960 World 600 - from Ray Lamm
Roy Mayne, racing his '65 Chevy #46 out of Shaw Air Force Base, SC, is passed by one of TMC-Chase's buddies!
Eddid Pagan crash........great pic.........never seen this picture before. Car actually looks better than it appears in the 'classic' photos of the Pagan wreck.
Bill Seifert, owner of the #45 GN/Cup entry and its "regular" driver from 1966 - 1971, poses in the Daytona grass before the 1970 Firecracker 400, two years before Vic Parsons' first outing for Seifert.
The front end of Eddie Pagan's 1958 Southern 500 pole winning Ford sure looked better race day morning when he posed with his other front row companions, Fireball Roberts and Joe Weatherly. Check those bullet headlight covers:
Based on his looks, I believe Seifert could have been his team's accountant as well. (I think that type of stereotyping / generalization is within ROE. Right Gilder?)
Bill Seifert put his accounting talents to pretty good use tallying the cash he and partner Butch Stevens later took in at BSR selling parts to teams. I think we can get away with the stereotyping so long as we don't call it profiling. Also, do you reckon Seifert and Little Bud Moore were separated at birth?
Old time race car drivers used to have a knack for posing for pictures at a jaunty angle. Weatherly and Pagan are providing excellent examples of this in their start line photo, although neither can compare with the all time best Bob (King of the Jaunty Anglers) Welborn. Seifert and Moore obviously prefer crouching, and they're doing a nice job, but in my opinion the lateBobby Isaac will always be the best of the crouchers.
Lest we forget our own, here's a photo Jack Walker took and posted last year of RR's Jim Wilmore and his #45 Mason Day tribute car in victory lane after a Bell & Bell Vintage Series Sportsman win at Dublin, NC:
Go Jim!
#44 , LLoyd Dane was a terror on NASCAR's west coast tracks:
Russ Thompson's photo ofKen Rush 
Richard Brown 1973 Grand National East
Lee Petty in 1961 Daytona compact race - his final professional race win - Getty Images
The late Jim Sauter at Michigan in 1989 driving Bob Tullius' Group 44 number 44. Tullius himself raced a few events each year of the NASCAR Grand Touring, later Grand American circuit from 1968-1971.
Dennis, the Richard Brown Monte Carlo makes you wonder if Billy Hagan, Terry Labonte and Piedmont Airlines had that car in the back of their mind when they fielded Terry's Monte Carlo 11 years later in 1984.
The day he became "The King"
But there was another famous 43 before Richard driven by Jimmie Lewallen!
The #43 had a championship driver 5 years before Richard won his first Grand National title with Bob Ross winning the 1959 Pacific Coast Stock Car Championship.
Nashville's Jimmy Griggs often raced car number 709. But for 1963, he had car number...43.
The King's brother, Maurice Petty
The King's father, Lee Petty
The King's favorite driver, Jim Paschl, credits to Jack Walker and is Carolina Raceplace website
Rex White 1958
Friday Hassler, 1964 
Lee Petty wrecked the #38 in its NASCAR debut... Gilmer Goode could not have been happy to see this happen to his car on June 19, 1949 at the Charlotte Speedway!
Wayne Smith, the last regular #38 until Elliott Sadler
I could not find any pics of Gwyn Staley in the #38 in spite of him getting all his wins in that car.
Bill Hemby
Butch Torrie from "Butch Torrie in Memorium" Racers Reunion.com 
Here's Butch Torrie at Hampton, Virginia's Langley Field Speedway in 1964 with the Desoto powered #37 NASCAR Modified fielded by the father of our late RR member, Jack Carter.
Here's Timberville, Virginia's late Bub Strickler on his roof at Darlington in 1965 in the #37. The "King of Cautions" may have spun, crashed and brought out more yellow flags per mile in his 20 Grand National starts than any other driver in NASCAR history. At Rockingham's inaugural (and final) Peach Blossom 500 in 1966, Strickler was parked by NASCAR after several lone car spins. When he was allowed to return to the race, he promptly spun again!
Bub was running at the finish of just 3 of his 20 Grand National starts. His final running at finish race came in his last year - at Richmond, in 1980. Although he finished, he still managed to cause two yellow flags!!!
H.B. Bailey's 1968 Pontiac #36:
Looking back at all these photos sure makes you want to get rid of today's ground effect cars and get back to something that at least marginally resembles a showroom model. Seems that was what NASCAR's founders had in mind back in the late-40s.
Alan Kulwicki's #35 Quincy's Steak House Ford Thunderbird enroute to a 15th place finish in the Wrangler Jeans Indigo 400 on September 7, 1986 at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway:
Benny Parsons in the Hendrick Folgers Decaf Chevy 1987. From Brent Martin pics
Lee Petty in 1956 Southern 500
If Ray Lamm (or anyone else) has a photo of the #35 "Rebel Racing" Pontiac driven in 4 Grand National races by Ray Hendrick in 1962 (Bristol/Richmond) and 1963 (Richmond/Richmond) I'd sure love to see it.
Billy Scrotch, from Dargan Watts 
When they painted "I'm right here" beside the number on Pardue's car, it was in reference to the popular television show, "Car 54, Where Are You?"
Ray Fox's Chevy driven by Bunkie Blackburn and Buck Baker in 1965 - from Ray Lamm pics
Tommy Bostick..........Dennis Andrews collection 
David Bentley had posted a B&W of the famed #33 fuel injected NASCAR Modified owned by Mechanicsville, Virginia's Robert "Blue" Burton and driven to hundreds of wins by such drivers as Al Grinnan and Bill Dennis . That's Blue on the left and Al on the right around 1965 in Mechanicsville. The color photo of the #33 is the restoration of the original, owned by Al and taken at Richmond International Raceway in the early 90s before his passing:
The 1970 West Virginia 300. Pop's 1969 Cyclone was a former Wood Brothers car.
Gus Linder 1968 Permatex 300
E. Tennessee's legendary "Ghost Man", Paul Gose * * Tazwell Speedway Collection 
Brownie King from Debbie Moore collection:
Jesse James Taylor - 1951 - SMYLE Media:
Hilly Rife spins #30 at Marlboro, MD in 1953:
The Vintage Racer
Bobby Hillin Jr. Team Ireland
Dave, for some reason, I've always been interested in Jesse James Taylor.....he was WAY before my time, maybe I like his name. At any rate, a promising star with too short of a career. Thanks for including JJ in the countdown.
The best driver to run the #29 
The racing grandpa
A different #29... Dink was racing Before there were #29's, apparently, based on his B-29 car. One of the few drivers of the 1950s to finish on the lead lap of a race yet never win.
And one of a driver I get along really well with, Dave Dion, the New England short track master
Bill Hollar - from John Betts 1976 Michigan pics
Elliott Forbes-Robinson - from Randy Murphy pics
A.J. Foyt - from Danny Quick pics
Gordon Johncock and the Hoss Ellington #28 crew before Talladega's 1973 Winston 500 . He'd qualify 6th, but crash out and post a 38th place finish.
Photographer unknown - sourced from RR Gordon Johncock Club page
Tommy Irwin - from Buddy Burton pics
Junior Johnson - from Ray Lamm pics
And Paul Lewis - although he is sitting in Cale's #27 in this 1965 shot - from Paul Lewis pics
A Walt Wimer photo of NASCAR's 1965 Most Popular Modified Driver, Al Grinnan 's #27 fuel injected beast owned by fellow competitor, Sonny Hutchins who was driving the #90 Ford for Junie Donlavey at the time. The following year the car number was changed to #99 as seen in a recent 1967 newspaper photo posted here by Dennis Garrett.
RR member, Ray Lamm captured this photo of Junior Johnson taking the checkers in his #26 Holly Farms Ford to win the 1965 Richmond 250 on the old Strawberry Hill half-mile dirt layout. It was the first national telecast of a race from the Commonwealth of Virginia, airing as a tape delayed segment on ABC's Wide World of Sports with Bill Fleming and Chris Economaki announcing.
King Richard behind the wheel of Junior Johnson's Mercury in 1963 Golden State 400 at Riverside. - Don Smyle photo
DAVE,
ARE YOU MISSING AN PHOTO ?
Thanks for any information or photos posted.
Dennis Garrett
Richmond,Va.USA
You'll have to clarify, Dennis. Don't understand. Thanks.
Now, that is one cool photo!
Earl Brooks from Andy Towler pics
Curtis Turner - 1964 USAC - from Craig Bontrager pics
Russ Truelove - with an extra "2" - from Ron Wilson pics
Ferrum, Virginia's Paul Radford behind the wheel of the famed Clarence's Steak House #26 NASCAR modified coach:
As posted at JalopyJournal
Richmond 250 NASCAR VL - 1965 : News Photo
Richmond 250 NASCAR VL - 1965
Credit: RacingOne / Contributor
RICHMOND, VA March 7, 1965: Junior Johnson (L) is joined by his crew chief Herb Nab (R) in victory lane at Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds after he won the Richmond 250 NASCAR Cup race. The event was one of the first NASCAR short-track races to be covered by ABC Televisions popular Wide World of Sports, with broadcasters Bill Fleming and Chris Economaki covering the action. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
DAVE,
ARE YOU MISSING AN JUNIOR JOHNSON/HERB NAB VICTORY LANE PHOTO FOR THE ABOVE REPLY ?
IF NOT, PLEASE DISREGARD.
Thanks for any information or photos posted.
Dennis Garrett
Richmond,Va.USA
This is the photo, Dennis... is it not showing up above?
The #25 got it's first win with Jack White in 1949, but little to nothing about that race is known except that most of the people are dead. Here's the next #25, Dick Linder, on his way to winning a 1950 Grand National race at Dayton Speedway.
Lloyd Ruby drove this #25 in the 1969 Citrus 250 Grand American race on the Daytona road course. The car was mostly driven by Pete Hamilton, who won 12(?) races during the season driving for Gene White.
Gene White and Lloyd Ruby were better known for this non-stock car #25, however. There were no pictures of Gene White's NASCAR #25 that he drove to a top-5 finish in the 1959 Convertible Series.
And of course, everyone's favorite #25, Cerry Ezra himself!
Lee Roy
Like his father Jabe Thomas (pictured in the Alex FL Racing Fan post above) - 1978 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, Ronnie Thomas wheeled the #25 early in his career and resided in Christiansburg, Virginia like his father, Jabe as well as racing neighbor, Clyde Lynn - whose number won't come up for 5 days, when we reach 20 days to go.
Alex FL Racing Fan,
GENE WHITE ALSO RACED #25 57 CHEVY CONVERTIBLE RACES DURING 1958 BUT I CAN'T FINED ANY PHOTOS..
I FOUND THE FOLLOWING 1959 GENE WHITE #25 57 CHEVY CONVERTIBLE RACES PHOTOS AND INFORMATION FROM THE BOOK: RUMBLIN' RAGTOPS - THE HISTORY OF NASCAR'S FABULOUS CONVERTIBLE DIVISION BY GREG FIELDEN.
Thanks for any information or photos posted.
Dennis Garrett
Richmond,Va.USA
Here's "Flash" Gordon at Bristol in 1980, after he moved from Horseshoe, NC to South Hill, Virginia. That's the same South Hill, Virginia where Dale Earnhardt's one-time father-in-law and race car fabricator supreme - Robert Gee - was living when Rick Hendrick first met him and later hired him to supervise the building of cars for Rick. Sandwiched between "No Neck" (Cale Yarborough) in Junior Johnson's #11 and "Flash" in the #24 is not the "King" - but Joe Millikan wheeling the #43 in relief for Richard Petty.
Interesting photo.......it's from the (May) 1959 "Rebel 300" with Johnny Beauchamp driving the Petty-43. In this race, Richard Petty was driving Olds convertible #2. In February of the same year, Beauchamp and Lee Petty were both declared the winner of the inaugural Daytona 500.
Mickey York
What's number "24" without Jeff Gordon..............? Here's a little known picture from the early days, disguised as a '56 Ford. Who'd ever thought? 
The late Doug Yates (no relation to Robert Yates' son, Doug) drove Raeford Johnson's 1959 Plymouth #23 in the 1960 Rebel 300 at Darlington:
Yates and Johnson entered the '59 Plymouth #23 in Atlanta's inaugural race - the July 1960 Dixie 300 - this time in hard top livery and posted a 14th place finish.
Before Jeff or Cecil Gordon, the King considered the use of the 24 and raced the number in the 1959 season opener at Champion Speedway in Fayetteville NC.
TMC-Chase and Legend will recognize the guy at the head of the line in this 1961 Occoneechee Speedway photo taken in Hillsboro, NC. 3rd in line behind the future King, once again, was the #23 Raeford Johnson Plymouth wheeled by Doug Yates.
RR member, Woody Delbridge has a nice gallery of Bluff City, Tennessee's Larry Utsman and his #23 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman entry taken at Tennessee's Kingsport Speedway in 1979. This is just one of many:
David Allio got the shot below of Larry Utsman in the same #23 Late Model Sportsman on the low side and John A. Utsman on the high side - also at Kingsport in 1979:
April 1961. Note the Petty car is a 1960 Plymouth. Considering two of the team's brand new 1961 Plymouths were reduced to nothing more than scrap metal in February, I guess King (42) and Maurice (43) raced what they had available in those early season races following Daytona.
Also, the 85 on the high side that looks to be laying down a qualifying lap: Emanuel Zervakis.
Yes, Chase, that's definitely the "Golden Greek" from Richmond on the track in Monroe Shook's #85, built in the Rex White/Louis Clements garage in Spartanburg. The photo cut line, added some years later down in Daytona, contains a major error regarding which Petty is in #43 and another error regarding the month:
HILLSBORO, NC March 2. 1961: Emmanuel Zervakis (No. 85) is shown on his qualifying lap with his Chevrolet prior to the running of the NASCAR Cup race at Orange Speedway. Waiting in line for their turn to time trial are Richard Petty (No. 43) in a Plymouth, the No. 86 Chrysler of Buck Baker, Tommy Irwin's Thunderbird (No. 36), the Plymouth of Doug Yates (No. 23), Junior Johnson in a Pontiac (No. 27) and Rex White's Chevrolet (No. 4). (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
When I was sponsoring driver Derrike Cope and car owner George Jefferson for 7-Eleven on the NASCAR Winston West Circuit for the 1984 & 1985 season, I came to appreciate the efforts of driver St. James Davis and his wife, LaDonna who brought their #22 from West Covina, California to all the NASCAR Winston West races, including Riverside.
The car was never fast nor competitive, but all of the track promoters could count on the Davis couple's #22 being there. At the time, car count was an extreme priority in NASCAR Winston West racing. St. James Davis often started last or near the rear, but he was always there.
During a 20-year NASCAR Winston West career - 1978-1999, St. James Davis started 113 races, but posted only 4 top-10 finishes. Fortunately for us, RR member, Scott Baker has posted on his outstanding www.bakerracinpix.com site, a photo of the #22 of St. James Davis when he scored his first career top-10 - at the Laguna Seca road course in June 1981. Here's that photo:
The childless St. James and LaDonna Davis had "adopted" a male chimp named Moe who was treated like a son and lived with them for 30 years. Moe was present at their wedding as seen in the 1970 wedding day photo below:
St. James Davis and LaDonna Davis on Wedding Day - June 1970, with Moe the chimp
Getty Images
St. James and LaDonna Davis stopped racing after the 1999 NASCAR Winston West season - their 20th on the west coast NASCAR big time circuit. That might be the end of the story, but it isn't.
After 30 years, the couple had to put their chimp, Moe in an animal preserve as he became aggressive. On Moe's 39th birthday in 2005, St. James and LaDonna visited Moe at the preserve, taking him a birthday cake.
While celebrating Moe's birthday, two other chimps at the preserve escaped and St. James intervened as they attempted to attack his wife, LaDonna. The result was severe and grave injuries suffered by St. James Davis, who saved the life of his wife while risking his own.
St. James Davis survived and in 2009 Esquire Magazine related his story as the nation was transfixed by the story of an east coast woman whose pet chimp went on a rampage.
Tragedy seems to be a common thread of a number of drivers who've raced wearing the #22 on their doors and roof in various NASCAR divisions through the years. St. James did not pay the ultimate price, but his non-racing incident was horrific.
If you have a strong stomach, you can scroll down a bit and see a photo of St. James and LaDonna Davis in 2009, 4 years after the chimp attack. If not.... STOP HERE .
Former NASCAR Winston West #22 driver, St. James Davis & wife, LaDonna in 2009, 4 years after chimp attack.
Esquire Magazine
Here's Richmond, Virginia restaurateur, Sonny Hutchins with the fuel injected #21 Ford Coupe modified built for him by the Wood Brothers of Stuart, Virginia in 1967 and driven to victory by Sonny at Martinsville.
Here's a link to the television news footage of Sonny giving the Wood's hot coupe a hot ride!
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2218226
Cale
Road racing and Indy car star, Bobby Rahal made his only NASCAR career start in the final Cup race of the 1984 season when we (7-Eleven) put him in the Wood Brothers #21 at Riverside. RR member, Scott Baker captured these shots, including Rahal's rookie yellow bumper:
Said Rahal, "The car has no power, no brakes and no steering." The Woods did discover during practice that the tires were slipping on the chrome wheels.
Bailey, North Carolina's J.E. Beard drove his Mitchell Brothers Supermarkets #22 to a third place finish behind Sam Ard in the 1978 Cardinal 500 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman race at Martinsville. The #22, built in Richmond by Emanuel & Butch Zervakis, won the "Best Appearing Car" award.
Beard hailed from the Wilson County Speedway half-mile dirt track in eastern North Carolina, where he'd won dirt championships in 6 Cylinder and Late Model divisions. Here's one of his #22 dirt cars, also sponsored by Mitchell Brothers: (Photos by Tim Hamm)
Beard would go on to build racing engines for Jack Tant and while employed by driver/owner Lake Speed in Kannapolis, NC, he built the Oldsmobile motor that took Speed to victory in the 1988 Rebel 500 at Darlington.
Clyde Lynn (above-Alex FL post) was one of two drivers racing GN out of Christiansburg, Virginia in the 60s - the other being Jabe Thomas . Clyde, who passed in 1996 at age 60, competed in 165 events (with all but 8 coming in the 4-year period 1965-1968) , scoring 8 top-5s and 73 top-10s. In the photo below, Clyde appears to have the inside line in his #20 on Richard Petty:
(Gwadadone)
That's Clyde, below in the Firestone uniform on the hood of his #20, socializing with Christiansburg neighbor, Jabe Thomas - in glasses.
Ray Lamm photo
Clyde Lynn was a pretty recognizable figure at the track:
The pit stop of Clyde Lynn and his #20 below at Martinsville is illustrative of why NASCAR eventually mandated catch cans:
Herman Beam
J.T. Putney
I was surprised to be able to find this. I know who it is. Do you?
Henley 
J.T. Putney in his #19 , first for Herman Beam - then for himself - became my Grand National "independent" hero in 1965. Running against the Chrysler and Ford factory cars, J.T. pushed his #19 Chevy to finishes of 3rd, 4th, and 3rd in 1965-1966 in his first three appearances at my local Richmond Fairgrounds dirt half-mile, quite a feat for an independent driver. Although always listed as being from Arden, NC, J.T. was actually from Farmville, Va, making him a local driver to us in Richmond. I know bossman Jeff recognizes the sponsorship on J.T.'s front fender!
Dennis Wiser - former limited and late model sportsman racer at Nashville's Fairgrounds Speedway in the 1970s.
Man, I love this countdown and all the wonderful pictures of often forgotten drivers and beautiful race cars!
Imagine "The King's" crew chief for his 200th win in 1984 - Buddy Parrot - joining forces for 1985 with my fellow Richmonders, driver - Terrible Tommy Ellis and owner - Eric Freedlander from my very own high school - to field the #18 NASCAR Winston Cup entry. The driver and owner each went to Federal prison. Now NBC and NASCAR are using the same color scheme from Terrible Tommy's 1985 ride in commercials to promote their 2015 Cup coverage.
On September 10, 1972, Glen Allen, Virginia's Bill Dennis - NASCAR 1970 Grand National Rookie of the Year - hooked up for the first time with H.J. Brooking and his Emrick Chevrolet -sponsored #17 Monte Carlo for the Capital City 500 at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway , starting 2nd and finishing 3rd behind Richard Petty and Bobby Allison - quite a feat for the local hometown boy before a hometown audience. The Emrick Chevy dealership was located on Chamberlayne Avenue, just 3 miles from the Richmond track.
The sponsor of the Bill Dennis #17 - Emrick Chevrolet - had a lengthy and important history in Richmond. It's initial showroom building - near Adams and Broad Street, in the predominately black Jackson Ward neighborhood is a Richmond landmark.
As far back as 1925, Emrick Chevrolet featured a beautiful showroom sporting potted plants:
The dealership was no slouch when it came to promotions, either. Here's the front and back of an item they passed out in 1948 - the year I was born, the year the first NASCAR race was run in Virginia - at Richmond, and the year the South's first television station went on the air - Richmond's WTVR.
Dennis made 4 starts in the #17 in 1972 and 4 more in 1973, the year his fellow Southside Speedway competitor, Lennie Pond was named NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year.
Today, Dennis is best remembered by many for driving fellow Richmonder, Junie Donlavey's iconic #90 Fords and Mercurys to three consecutive Permatex 300 victories at Daytona from 1972-1974 - the first driver to accomplish that feat before Dale Earnhardt matched it..
Bill Dennis' daughter, Teresa , in 1982 became my 2nd "Miss Wrangler." That's her in the September 1982 Harvest 150 NASCAR Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series victory lane at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway with the late winner, Butch Lindley, late car owner, Emanuel Zervakis and late Richmond P.R. man, Kenneth Campbell.
Zervakis Family photo - Butch Zervakis
Fred Harb in a convertible #17 - 1958 Nashville - from Russ Thompson 's pictures
Any list of #17 rides would not be complete without a H-M car driven by David Pearson.
One of my dad's favorites - Butch Lindley
Farmer John Matthews was driving the Cliff's Drive-In #16 at eastern North Carolina's dirt half-mile Wilson County Speedway in 1975. Not only did Cliff Winstead own the popular drive-in on Goldsboro Street, he was also chief steward at the Wilson track. The second photo shows Mac Mangum "helping" Farmer John out of turn 2 onto the fast Wilson backstretch.
Tim Hamm photos
Rodger Ward
RR member, Ray Lamm caught Bobby hamming it up with Miss Winston in his Matador days!
Eastern North Carolina's Wilson County Speedway featured two superb dirt track talents wheeling a #15 on it's half-mile surface in the 1970s. Frederickburg, Virginia's Al Grinnan (above) was captured by RR member Tim Hamm in 1975 and that's Grifton, North Carolina's Carl Horton in Tim's 1976 photo below.
Dale Earnhardt spent two years wheeling 1982 and 1983 #15 Wrangler Jeans Thunderbirds for legendary car owner, Bud Moore, scoring three Cup wins.
Russ Thompson photo above
During the same 1982-1983 time period, Dale drove the #15 for his former father-in-law, Robert Gee in the new Budweiser Late Model Sportsman touring series, winning the first ever race at Daytona in 1982.
Dale Earnhardt in the Robert Gee #15 leads Charlie Luck in a NASCAR Budweiser LMS event.
Farmer John........classic look from the late '60's 
Farmer John.........early 80's 
Dale Earnhardt also drove the #15 in 1982-1983 sponsored by Wrangler for Ed Whitaker in Budweiser Late Model Sportsman short track events.
Wayne Andrews
Hershel McGriff with the #14 Frank Christian Olds in 1954 as captured by the late, great photographer T.Taylor Warren.
Smokey Yunick's 1963 Chevy #13 was driven at Daytona by Johnny Rutherford.
As posted on the web site www.trackforum.com by user IndyBigJohn.
IndyBigJohn is a RR member as well.
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/profile/JohnPotts
Jim Paschal raced #13 in a handful of GN races in 1954 for car owner Ernest Woods.
Thanks for the heads-up, Chase.
Another #14 Dave, Jerry Grant.
The car #12 Chevy II Sportsman built by Robert Radford for Eddie Cooke to race in 1975 at Wilson County Speedway. 
Robert Brent Radford collection
Ralph Moody has his #12 Ford beside Bill Blair in a color screen shot from 1956 Southern 500 film and is trying to coax his #12 Valiant to catch the Falcon of Curtis Turner in the 1961 Daytona Compact car race won by Lee Petty.
As posted by FallsCity48 at Randy Ayers site.
#11 Chevelle of Leroy Jones at Wilson County Speedway in 1975:
Tim Hamm photo
Roy Smith , of Victoria, British Columbia, wheeled his #11 to consecutive NASCAR Winston West championships in 1980 & 1981:
David Cox photo
Roger Baldwin: Getty Images
Elmo Langley: Ratus Walters Collection at Carolina Race Place
Nofolk, Virginia's Bill Champion with his #10 GN Ford Torino at Daytona in 1969:
The #10 of Rene "The Champ" Charland - NASCAR National Sportsman Division Champion in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965 - at the 1972 Daytona Permatex 300 bore a striking resemblance to a Bill Champion car. Is it a former Bill Champion GN ride?
Scott Seward
The #9 Kaddyshack Ford Thunderbird driven by Bill Elliott at the August 18, 1985 Washington 500 NASCAR Winston West race at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Washington was provided by car owner George Jefferson (Racing Reference is Incorrect - Harry Melling was NOT the car owner) and was a team car the winning 7-Eleven Ford #07 driven by Derrike Cope, who picked up $17,305 while Bill, who qualified 9th, expired early with an engine issue.
Car owner George Jefferson had no problem finding a #9 for the Bill Elliott car at Monroe.
Jefferson had run #95 for years, including the previous season for Derrike Cope when 7-Eleven first came aboard.
One of my dad's friends - Roy Counce - fielded the #10 Benward Construction Chevelle at Nashville in the 1970s. Was driven by a number of drivers including... (Russ Thompson photos)
Paddlefoot Wales
and Steve Spencer - who captured the 1977 late model sportsman championship (although not in Roy's car) and later became the pilot for Sterling Marlin
Dale Earnhardt's #8 superspeedway Late Model Sportsman owned & built by his former father-in-law, Robert Gee:
Joe Weatherly won the first race ever staged at the Fredericksburg (Va.) Speedway in 1953 driving the Flying #9 Rhodes Special .
Fredericksburg Free Lance Star from Robert Williams
RR member, Phil Wills in his #8 Camaro battles the Tiny Lund Pepsi entry during the inaugural Talladega race - the September 1969 'Bama 200 NASCAR GT event - in this photo originally posted at RR by member, Dennis Andrews.
Little Joe
Blind in his right eye, Bud Webster drove the "Eight Ball" Hudson Sedan for owner Lawrence Brooks of Arkansas City, Kansas.
Gary Virden Collection
In 1965, Yankee racer Dick Dixon of Warehouse Point, CT drove Dan Colone's 1963 "8-Ball" Ford to five Top-5 finishes in just 8 NASCAR Grand National starts. Dixon's amazing feat included 3rd places at Asheville and Harris, NC, a 4th place at Beltsville, MD and 5th place finishes at Manassas, VA and Islip, NY. Top-10s at Old Bridge, NJ and Moyock, NC tallied a total of 7 Top-10s in 8 1963 GN starts for Dixon. He ran no more GN races after that spectacular foray.
Harris, NC Speedway photo by Randy Gilbert
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Bob Flock, eldest of the racing brothers
Jim Reed, 1959 Southern 500 winner
Bobby Johns in the not-quite-#7
Dean Dalton: the only NASCAR driver to ever finish top-10 in season points and never qualify for a race at Daytona
Ricky Foss had two different #7 Sportsman (Limited) division rides in 1975 at Wilson County Speedway:
Tim Hamm photos
Ed Negre failed to finish well enough in his qualifying twin to transfer to the 1971 Daytona 500 - Ray Lamm
Another Bobby Johns #7
Lieutenant Marshall Teague in his "Fabulous Hudson Hornet." It even has the license plate on it.
Cotton Owens en route to being the first NASCAR driver to win a race behind the wheel of a Pontiac
David Pearson in his #6 passes Larry Frank in the #upside-down-6 at the Daytona 500. It's Frank's last race, and he went out with a top-10 while David went on to celebrate the first of many Grand National titles.
David Pearson
Al Unser
Roy Tyner 1968
The famed #4 "Snake Bite II" fuel injected Chevy coupe NASCAR modified of Richmond, Virginia's Ted Hairfield on the starting grid at Martinsville:
David Bentley
The #4X of "Terrible Tommy" Ellis chases fellow Richmonder Ray Hendrick in the "Flying 11" during Martinsville NASCAR Late Model Sportsman action:
The #4 Limited Sportsman and Late Model of Goldsboro, North Carolina's Durwood Peele are shown at Raleigh's Wake County Speedway in the top photo by Racin_Girl-22 posted at Local Race Chat and in the bottom photo by Tim Hamm at Wilson County Sppedway. Durwood, a one-time Wilson promoter, burned to death in a Wilson crash in the early 80s.
At Richmond's 1991 Busch Series Pontiac 200, Jeff Gordon's Carolina Ford Dealers car fielded by Bill Davis carried #4 , not the #1 the car ran the remainder of the year. Modified star, Tony Hirschman had #1 at Richmond that weekend.
Anybody (Woody Delbridge, Ray Lamm) have a photo of Gordon's only NASCAR career outing in #4?
Model posted for sale on ebay
Dale Earnhardt strapped into Richard Childress' car #3 for the very first time on August 16, 1981 at Michigan. His 1982-1983 car owner, Bud Moore walks by in the background.
John Betts photo
3-time NASCAR National Modified champion (1967, 1968, 1969) Bugs Stevens (Carl Bergman) ran car #3 before he started running #15 (just as Dale Earnhardt - above).
The famed 1963 "Mystery Chevy" #3 fielded by Ray Fox for Junior Johnson. It was said Ford Motor Co. spent millions trying to catch the porcupine head 427 powering the Mystery Chevy.
Ray Fox returned briefly to Chevy in 1965 fielding this #3 for LeeRoy Yarbrough.
Buddy Baker
Wrangler sponsorship appeared in NASCAR for the first time at the final race of the 1980 Cup season on the #2 Rod Osterlund ride driven to the 1980 Cup Championship by Dale Earnhardt. It was Earnhardt's first Championship and the final Cup race ever at Ontario.
The Earnhardt/Osterlund #2 looked quite different when it returned as the ride of the defending Champion for 1981. The cars had been downsized to a shorter wheelbase, Osterlund switched from Chevy to Pontiac and Wrangler created their own graphics package (using their corporate colors) , designed by a contract artist at Sid Morris' Morris-White Associates on East Boulevard in Charlotte.
Statsman Photo
The #2X fuel injected coupe of legendary northeastern NASCAR modified driver, "Steady" Eddie Flemke, inventor of the Flemke Front End and the mentor and hero of Daytona 500 winner, Pete Hamilton and Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, Dennis Zimmerman:
George M photo
The #2 6-cylinder ride of Raleigh's Walter Simpkins at Wilson County Speedway in 1975:
Tim Hamm photo
I was at Beltsville, Maryland the night of June 15, 1966 when Bobby Allison debuted J.D. Bracken's 1965 lightweight 327 cu. in. #2 Chevelle with a 4th place qualifying run. The car hadn't been lettered and had adhesive tape numbers. Bobby blew up the small block that night, but would score his first Grand National win in the same #2 Chevelle less than a month later at Oxford, Maine during the annual "Northern Tour." That's the car (now with painted numbers ) below chasing Big John Sears during the 1966 Northern Tour.
And somewhere along the line we lost a day because today, the 20th, should be 2 days to go!
I noticed that a while back myself but figured ehhh what the heck. Besides, the extra day allows for pics of 0 cars for drivers such as Delma Cowart and Dan Gurney! Ha.
I decided a while back that Jeff Gilder counts days like Fox TV counts laps when they tell me a green-white-checkers restart involves 3 laps of racing, rather than the actual two!!!
The #1 of Earl Arnold at Wake County Speedway in 1974, the #1 of Mac Mangum at Wilson County Speedway in 1976 and the bright red #M1 of Plymouth, NC's Shelton McNair at Wilson in 1976 are shown below in these Tim Hamm photos:
Tony Hirschman's #1 has the inside line on the #69 of Brian Ross in Winston Modified Tour action during the Winston Twin 200s at Richmond International Raceway on April 8, 1990:
Wonder if Earl Arnold was an Evel Knievel fan - or vice versa!
Judging from the Mark Bochiardy rendering of Earl at Fayetteville in 2006, appears he had gotten over the Evel stage some 32 years later... or perhaps this was his son. How about you Fayetteville attendees... is the Earl Arnold competing at Fayetteville in 2006 with his #1 the same Earl Arnold I watched in his #1 at Wake County and Wilson in the early-mid-70s?
This could be 2015's empty Daytona grandstands as Delma Cowart (the singing, partying piano player) passes by driving his #0 in 1997.
Wow, Dave, it does look like 2015!
One more day you say? Ok here is my entry to this
At age 45, Richmond, Virginia's Sonny Hutchins qualified the beautiful Emanuel Zervakis built powder blue #01 Dominion Oxygen Supply Monte Carlo on the front row and lead the first 79 laps of the 1974 Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville. It would be Sonny's final GN/Cup race in a stellar career.
All photos from Butch Zervakis collection
Jim Cook
Buddy Baker
Dan Gurney in his Holman-Moody Ford
#00 Buckshot Jones
Former NASCAR Modified Division Most Popular Driver and NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Division Virginia State Champion, Al Grinnan works a corner at Richmond's Southside Speedway in his #00 Coleman Mann ("From Powhatan") Chevelle in the early 70s:
AJ Foyt in the #00 Holman-Moody Ford BEFORE his huge lap 169 crash in the 1965 Motor Trend 500 at Riverside:
Genuine Jack
The #00s of Bobby Allison, Sam Ard and Buzzie Reutimann:
South Boston Gazette-Virginian
Freddie Borden at Brookline, NH in car #000 - 1959.
Marty Harty
