Do you know your Nascar sponsors?

[ancrdave]

Buddy Baker drove the original Crisco car...

[Frasson118]

You got it Dave. The "hint" I was giving, was that the correct answer was on the line right above the hint!

[Osmosis Jones]

I think Buddy Baker was in the Crisco ride also....
I think Purolator came with AJ Foyt to the Woods Brothers and then they stayed after they picked up Pearson. I remember they sponsored Foyt's red Chevelle #14 when he raced NASCAR. In USAC it was just blank or said Gilmore on it.


A couple more....

Kings Inn
Sunny King Ford-Honda
Rumple (Furniture I think)
Blue Max (car polish)
Red Baron Pizza
Levi Garrett (Chewin Tobacky)
another oldie....Bearfinder (CB's)
Citibank
Quaker State Oil
Laredo Boots
CRC (parts cleaner in a can)

Hylton was sponsored by a frame machine company I can't remember the name of.....they used to advertise in SCR.......dang......

Oh....anybody remember how big "Cam2" was for a few years?

[Osmosis Jones]

Takes me too long to respond.....another dang it moment....

[Winger]

Darn old age has caught up with me. I should know a bunch of these but can't seem to place the image with names. Rumple was the sponsor of the driver killed at Watkins Glen but I can't think of the name.
Red Baron was on Ken Schrader's car, Brett Bodine had Quaker State, and Levi Garret was on Geoff Bodine's. But none of these may be the first. CNC and Blue Max, I should know but can't place.

I do remember Cam2 though. Had a sweatshirt of their's that my son requisitioned.

[JackTripper]

Rumple - JD McDuffie
Blue Max - Rusty Wallace

[Frasson118]

Kings Inn.... Benny Parsons, and a one-off ride for Jan Opperman
Sunny King Ford-Honda.... Elmo Langley, Tommy Gale
Rumple (Furniture I think).... JD McDuffie
Blue Max (car polish)... Rusty Wallace
Red Baron Pizza... Ken Schrader
Levi Garrett (Chewin Tobacky)... Joe Ruttman
another oldie....Bearfinder (CB's)..... wild guess - Eddie Bierschwale?
Citibank.... clueless
Quaker State Oil.... was Joe Ruttman first or Morgan Sheppard?
Laredo Boots... no idea
CNC (parts cleaner in a can)... Richard Childress, as a driver

[mr south 59]

I was looking through a few of my old programs and found these.

Norris Industries
1st National City Travelers Checks
Truxmore
Shoney's
Dahlonega Ford Sales
Krystal
Transmissions Unlimited
Armor All

[Osmosis Jones]

I got it!

It hit me while I was mowing the lawn!
The frame machine company that sponsored James Hylton was KANSAS JACK
Man....that was driving me nuts.

Winger was right about McDuffie with Rumple getting killed at the Glen
Sunny King Ford Honda was on a BUNCH of cars back in the 70's....usually found him on the Donlavey ride during Daytona....

Kings Inn was on Roger Hambys #17...don't know if he was the first.

Citibank also jumped around but I remember it on Parsons and Yarboroughs cars....

You got CRC Jerry but Bearfinder was another of Childress'...I remember that one because we had a Bearfinder CB....

Nobody remembers those ads with Cale Yarborough standing in a 4 ft tall Laredo Boot? I bet he regretted that after he saw it in a magazine....lol

Norris was Bud Moore's sponsor for a couple of driver's.....also Warner Hogdon(sp)

[mr south 59]

Does anybody know who sponsored Jimmy Lee Capps. I can't find it anywhere.

[AB195]

A/C DELCO car, i think, was driven by Fort Wayne's Steve Chistman in the late '80's early '90's for a brief time, don't know who the Team Owner was.
Currently drives a Mod and/or a Truck in the midwest....still around.

[mr south 59]

I found who sponsored Jimmy Lee Capps. I was looking through my older programs. I didn't realize it was 1976 when he had Gary's Gaurd and 1977 and "78 when he had Herhe Produce. Jimmy Is from Jax, fl.

O.K I will give you one.

Norris Industries...... Bobby Allison

[Osmosis Jones]

Jerry...

Check this out....might stay up tonite and scan in some stuff from that stack of mags I told you about.

And I had it wrong....it's CRC....not CNC. Duh....

[flraceguy]

Here's the answers I was looking for, but again, I can't be positive I'm right either:

The original Skoal Bandit, was Stan Barret in the #22 car, co-owned by Burt Reynolds among others. Hence the "Bandit" part of the team name. Harry came along as a team driver to help get the whole program up to speed.

Sunoco was first with Charlie Rudolph, a NY Modified racer. He is the son of Jim, an accomplished racer of his own, and the father of Erick who is quickly making a name for himself in the Northeast.

Mark Martin first came South with Apache Stoves on the side of his cars. I think Apache also made an appearance with Dave Marcis.

Kellogg's came to Atlanta with Chuck Bown & Tex Powell when they were testing the Nascar waters.

Interstate Batteries (Powertron) was with Stanley Smith. A lot of people remember the Talladega crash when Jimmy Horton flew right out of the ballpark, but not many know that Stanley had severe head injuries in the same crash, and almost didn't make it. Fortunately he is back, and recently ran at Lakeland.

Alan Kulwicki first showed up in a Bill Terry owned #35 with Quincy's Steak House colors. After missing Daytona, and Richmond had qualifying rained out (field lined up by points, and he had none after Daytona), he decided to go on his own. I believe this was the only time Alan ever ran for an "owner" besides himself.

Texaco... I could be wrong about this, but I do remember Janet Guthrie running a White & Red Texaco car, possibly #82. This was after the Green & White 68 Kelly Girl cars.

Texaco Diesel... again the details are sketchy, but somewhere I have a picture of that car, and I'm pretty sure it was Jeremy Mayfield. He was driving for the Sadler Brothers team (Earl & Check... not Hermie & Elliott) in the ARCA series at the time. The Sadler also entered a handful of Cup races a year with their ARCA stuff. I think Jeremy was only 17 at the time.

Piedmont Airlines was with Richard Childress and his new driver Ricky Rudd, when Dale Earnhardt left, took Wrangler with him, and wound up in the Bud Moore 15. This might have been the only stretch that Dale ever drove a Ford product.

Pepsi Cola... I was thinking Tiny Lund, as I saw him in 1970 with that sponsor, but I believe AncrDave schooled me on this one. I now go with Roy Tyner. Another piece of history about Roy Tyner is that he was the subject of the Jim Croce song "Rapid Roy, The Stock Car Boy". I also heard his fast lifestyle wound up getting him murdered along the way by someone who felt Roy did him wrong. The detalis of that story I don't recall.

Publix was on the side of Junie Donlaveys #90 at Atlanta when the Ford Motor Company wanted to give some seat time to one of their "protoge's", a Desert racer named Robby Gordon. Junie was called on a lot of times by Ford to give their "factory" guys a chance. Others included Kenny Schrader and Dorsey Schroeder.

Dupont will forever be linked to Jeff Gordon, but the first driver was Ricky Craven in the Busch series, driving a Purple #99.

Jasper Engines, one of the largest engine rebuilders in the country, first appeared with Ken Ragan, father of David Ragan. He ran some ARCA & some Cup races with the #74 & #77 cars.


Thanks for playing along. If you want more, let me know!

Well lets see... Accordinig to "www.legends of nascar.com"... Roy Tyner died in 1989 after being shot in his truck, and then the truck was set afire...

Little tidbit that I hadn't noticed...

[flraceguy]

Coincedently..

Roy Tyner was also the first Native American to drive in the Busch Series, SCR Magazine--Circa 1969