Some old NASCAR trivia

[ancrdave]

Here's a good one... Which NASCAR Cup owner had 66 different drivers race for him?

[83earnhardt]

OKay, how about this one, how many NASCAR races were won by the AMC Matador.
And by whom?

[83earnhardt]

Here's a couple more to keep your brain's functioning......

1 - Who was the first driver (ever) to crash in a NASCAR Cup race?
2 - Who was the first driver to win a NASCAR Cup race in a car with power steering?

Already got #1, Lee Petty, #2 is Bobby Allison. Bobby won on May 16, 1982, at Dover Downs International Speedway

I found the website also.

[83earnhardt]

Who was the first driver to win a NASCAR Cup race driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo? What year was it, and at which track? Also.... This driver had to use a relief driver in this race, Who was the relief driver? Good luck!!

A win by Kevin Harvick's at New Hampshire International Speedway marked the 400th time a Chevy Monte Carlo crossed a NASCAR finish line at the front of the pack. Since the Chevrolet Monte Carlo's first year of NASCAR competition in 1971, the car has been one of GM's biggest successes in racing and the ball started rolling with a win (and a record set) by Charlie Glotzbach - with help from Friday Hassler - at Bristol on July 11, 1971.

[ancrdave]

#2 is pretty easy, so I'll let other get this one...

#1 - Lee Petty - who crashed on lap 107 of the very first Cup race held at Charlotte Speedway... The tale is that the Buick he was driving was his wife's car that he drove to the track and entered the race with...

[Jacque Debris]

NASCAR Jeopardy

Here's a couple more to keep your brain's functioning......

1 - Who was the first driver (ever) to crash in a NASCAR Cup race?
2 - Who was the first driver to win a NASCAR Cup race in a car with power steering?

[Jacque Debris]

1) Benny Parsons qualified for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 200.175 mph, which was the first NASCAR qualification run over 200 mph...

2) Harry Gant in 1991 - Won five times in Winston Cup (tied with Davey Allison for most wins) and won five BGN races which was two more than Jimmy Hensley, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett and Chuck Bown who had three each...

Ancrdave...... Right on both...... Harry Gant was the man back in his prime. You never hear much anymore about him. I wonder what he's up to in his retirement days? I think I remember him in some sort of legends race at Bristol a couple of years ago. I remember somebody in that race getting hurt pretty badly after getting T-Boned after spinning out, but I can't remember who it was. I want to say it was Larry Pearson.

[ancrdave]

1) Benny Parsons qualified for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 200.175 mph, which was the first NASCAR qualification run over 200 mph...

2) Harry Gant in 1991 - Won five times in Winston Cup (tied with Davey Allison for most wins) and won five BGN races which was two more than Jimmy Hensley, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett and Chuck Bown who had three each...

[Jacque Debris]

More famous firsts

Let's see if I can stump anybody with these questions..... I doubt it!

1 - Who was the first NASCAR Cup driver to post a "qualifying" speed over 200 mph?

2 - Who was the first driver to post the most victories in a single season (in the same year) in both the Grand National and NASCAR Cup series? Also.... what year did this driver accomplish this?

[Jacque Debris]

Rex White, 1960

Yep.... That's the one I was looking for. But you were right about Richard Petty. Only he did it four years later.

[Jack Burroughs]

Tiger Tom

That pic of Tom looks to me to have be the dashboard of a '57 Chev. When I went to the U of M. in 1959, I had a roommate from Chicago that personally knew Tom from back up norf.

[Jimmy McKinley]

Was this the same Tiger Tom Pistone that was featured on a episode of "American Pickers"?

Yep.

That episode, though...was kinda....misleading. From what I understand (from guys that I "know" through model-car building message boards that were *there* back in the day), a LOT of that stuff was "planted"...and/or fake. Like that so-called "Petty door". It doesn't even look like a Plymouth door, and the font of the number never matched anything that the Pettys ran.

[Trash Inturn4]

You have #1 & #2 right...... #3 was earlier than 1964.

Rex White, 1960

[Jacque Debris]

1) Neil Bonnett won on February 21, 1988, at Richmond International Raceway.

2)Buddy Baker. Buddy won the Winston 500 at Alabama International Motor Speedway on May 2, 1976, in a Dodge in 2:56:37 with an average speed of 169.887.

3)Richard Petty, 1964

You have #1 & #2 right...... #3 was earlier than 1964.

[steadysteve]

Tiger Tom

1) Tom Pistone... se photo
2) Daytona International Speedway hosted Bethune-Cookman College and high school football games in the grass of the tri-oval during the early-1960s... Not sure if that's what you are looking for, but it's a fact!

Was this the same Tiger Tom Pistone that was featured on a episode of "Americam Pickers"?

Also,didnt Daytona also have a football field that hosted high school football games,back when the race track opened?