Do you know your Nascar sponsors?

[Frasson118]

Norris Industries ... already been guessed, Bobby Allison in the Bud Moore 15
1st National City Travelers Checks ... several drievr, but the one I most connect is Benny Parsons
Truxmore... I always think of Bill Dennis, but not sure he was the first one.
Shoney's.... wow! Gonna have to give this some thought. I do own a Shoney's/Sterling Marlin T-Shirt, but that was strictly for his Nashville LM.
Dahlonega Ford Sales ... has to be Bill Elliott
Krystal ... Never knew they were involved at all. No guess
Transmissions Unlimited .... same for this one. No clue
Armor All... Neil Bonnet in the JD Stacy #5

[Frasson118]

A few more:

Eureka Vacuum Cleaners
Northwestern Security Life
Lifebouy
Slender You
Auto Bell Car Wash
Dow Chemical
Keystone Beer
Chatanooga Chew
Midwest Transport
Heilig-Meyers Furniture

[JackTripper]

Transmissions Unlimited - Dave Marcis
Lifebouy - Dave Marcis again? Trevor Boys perhaps?
Keystone Beer - Wally Dallenbach
Heilig-Meyers Furniture - Bobby Hillin Jr.

[Frasson118]

Some answers from earlier:


Eureka Vacuum Cleaners... Jimmy Means

Dirt-Devil Vacuum Cleaners... Kenny Wallace

Glad Trash Bags... Sammy Swindell, driving the Dick Moroso car after Rob's death. I think it was a one-time-only ride at Daytona.

Days Inn Hotels... Mickey Gibbs, in a Sam McMahon owned car. McMahon was convicted in a money skimming scam and went to the pokey. He also owed "Team III" that also ran as a #24.

Masters Inn.... Delma Cowart, who is famous for the quote "We ain't never won a race, but we ain't never lost a party!"

Jackaroo BBQ Sauce.... Jeff Purvis

SPAM... Lake Speed

Alka-Seltzer... Jimmy Means again

Evinrude Outboards Motors.... Jim Sauter

Winners Circle Auto Parts... Morgan Shephard, black & silver #97. This team was co-owned by Maurice Petty. His partner (can't remember his name) was convicted of something or other and spent time in the big house also. This same sponsor was also behind Bobby Labontes first BGN car, #44 also black & silver

Pannill Knits.... who could forget Buddy Arrington. He was also the last person to race a Dodge in Cup (prior to their return), and his Dodge Magnum #67 is in the Museum in Talladega (or was it Darlington?)

Coats & Clark... They are, of all things, a sewing thread manufacturer. Dale Jarrett, in an 18 car, drove this car, but it's not the Gibbs team with the same number

Freedlander.... Tommy Ellis. Eric Freedlander was another who crossed the line and found himself snuggled up to someone named "Hacksaw"

Bull Frog Knits.... I thought Buddy Baker, but the other guess of Lake Speed, in Hoss Ellingtons #1 is probably right.

Crisco... Buddy Baker did drive this car first. I still consider it one of the best looking racecars I've ever seen. What a beautiful car that was!

[Frasson118]

Quote from Osmosis Jones:

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

I think you're right Matt... I was thinking of King's ROW, not Inn. They were a full-time sponsor for Benny Parsons white & gold #72, but there was a contest held by Gater Racing News that awarded a "Grand National" ride at Pocono for a few years. I have a photo somewhere of Jan Opperman in the Parson's team car, numbered 77 for this race, running side by side with Kenny Brightbill who won a ride in the Walter Ballard #30. A different year also saw Carl "Fuzzy" Van Horn in a one-off ride, and later on Tighe Scott ran quite a few races in the Ballard 30. If not for a late caution in the Daytona 500, Scott may have won. I believe he wound up with a 6th place finish if my memory is anywhere close!

[mr south 59]

Frassin did pretty good with!

Truxmore I was thinking was.....Dick Brooks in a Junie #90 Mercury
Shoney's..... Dave Marcis
Krystal.... Grant Adcox
Transmision Unlimited.... Cecil Gorden

[Jimmy McKinley]

Wasn't Truxmore on the Donlavey car when Bill Dennis drove it at Daytona in the late '60s - early '70s?

Norris Industries - I thought that was on the Bud Moore Torino (it was actually a '76 Gran Torino if I recall) when Buddy Baker was driving it in about '76, '77, or '78; I have an 8x10 of that car in one of my photo albums somewheres...

Dow - I wanna say was on the 99 winged Dodge that won the first Talladega race in 1969 with Richard Brickhouse driving. Can't be sure of who the owner was, though...weren't they also on Ricky Craven's purple #99 before DuPont came along?

Olympia Beer was Hershel McGriff's longtime sponsor out west; he ran several of the California NASCAR races at Riverside.

Terminal Transport would probably be Richie Bickle's #45 car; I have a 8x10 of that car along with the #5 Late Model at Nashville. I think that Waltrip's sponsor his rookie year was "Terminal Trucking", not sure if it is or was the same group, just a different name.

Carling Black Label was on the #92 1973(?) Rookie of the Year, Earl Smith (?; I think it was "Smith" - never mind; I just seen that Frasson118 ahd answered that one already...LOL...it's Earl ROSS); at the time he was the first Canadian to win Rookie and actually won at Martinsville that year I believe, or something like that. Then Carling went to Cale Yarborough and Junior Johnson's team.

[Osmosis Jones]

yer both right....sorta.

Larry Smith had Carling the year after he won Rookie of the Year (1972). Unfortunately, he was killed in a crash at Talladega that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Smith_(NASCAR)

I thought I had seen someone ask about Sta-Power but not sure....they were Bud Moore's sponsor when Bobby Isaac was driving....before Buddy and Bobby......
Dang, they sure played musical cars back then a lot.

Hershel McGriff did have Olympia but Elder was first, I believe....

And Waltrip's sponsor was Terminal Transport same as Bickle and Gill and a few others in the Late Models.....looking for a picture of it.....and here it is....

[Osmosis Jones]

Maybe they were Terminal Trucking.....not sure but I think all of them said Terminal Transport......


Yep....Bickle and Gill's sponsor was Terminal Trucking....oh well....as seen here:

[Osmosis Jones]

Dave "La Machine" Westerman.....

Earlier I said I thought Coke was with someone else before it was on Allison's Junior Johnson owned Chevies and I was right.....except that it was on Allison's Holman and Moody owned Ford products......Mr. Westerman knew the right answer.....all hail "La Machine"......this is a scan from the back of an old SCR......

[Osmosis Jones]

I'll start a new thread with some more of these old photos....

Ya'll want to see more of the scans from the SCR's of my youth?

Picture 1.....guess who he is.....
Picture 2.....One of the driver's mentioned earlier....Ramo Stott....a very happy guy
Picture 3.....one of my favorite victory lane moments....."How you doin?" ....If ya can't read the name it's Ray Elder (pre-Olympia) looking for his lost keys.......lol

[mr south 59]

Jimmy,

I standed corrected about Norris Industries. I didn't go back far enough. In 1975 Bud Moore had Bud Moore Engineering on the #15 car with Buddy Baker than 1976 they got Norris on the #15 car and Buddy drove it in '76-'77 than Bobby Allison drove it in '78. In '79 Bud had Hodgdon / Moore on the #15.


What about,

Burger King
Encyclopedia Britannica

[derf]

Citicorp with Junior Johnsons' #11 Cale Yarborough driving.Junies' Truxmore sponsered ford had Jody Ridley for their only win.Mcgriiff and Olympia Beer went to LeMans and raced a Dodge Charger.Chattanoga Chew and David Pearson in the early 80's.Keystone and Wally Dallenbach at Roush.

[oneoff]

O. J. that would be......

............."The Tampa Terror" Will Cagle.

[Jimmy McKinley]

derf wrote:

Junies' Truxmore sponsored ford had Jody Ridley for their only win.

...That win came in 1981, but Truxmore was on Junie's cars LONG before then. I remember seeing it on a '69 Torino, probably a Sportsman car, at Daytona in the early - and I mean EARLY....LOL... - 1970's. I wanna say that it was Bill Dennis driving that car.

OJ - that pic (#1) appears to be Pearson with...I have no idea...LOL

And I recall Coke being on the Mercurys long before Allison hooked up with Junior. And yes, it was on Allison's short track cars as well, which were Chevys.

Slender You - Lee Faulk drove the car first, I believe, at Richmond in about '88 or '89; it was shortly after it was reconfigured into the 3/4-miler. Can't remember who they put in the car after Lee, though. It was the same owner as his NA$CAR All-American Challenge Series car (a rival series to the All-Pro Series at the time).

Sunny King Ford/Honda: would have to say ol' Elmo's 64, but he had several other drivers in that car, too. I remember a guy by the name of Tommy Gale driving that car (any relation to the current driver, Cale Gale?).

Folger's was first with country singer T.G. Sheppard (sp?) and his team, with Ruttman driving. It was the same dark red as Tim Richmond's 25 car, but it was before Hendrick bought that team and was #4.

I remember Bearfinder CBs on a #05 car Daytona in about '78 or '79; it was a big Chevelle Laguna, but I don't think it was Childress.