Card #73 - Phoenix International Raceway (Capacity 67,000)
NASCARD Radio take away: Phoenix International Raceway, also known as PIR, is a one-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. The track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. Phoenix International Raceway is home to two annual NASCAR race weekends, one of 13 facilities on the NASCAR schedule to host more than one race weekend a year. The track is both the first and last stop on the West Coast, as well as the second and second-to-last track on the schedule.
Card #76 - Benny Parsons (July 12, 1941 - January 16, 2007) Age 65
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 21 years in 526 races with 21 Wins, 199 Top Fives, 283 Top Tens and 20 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Benny started one Cup race in 1964 at the age of 22 and left to run Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) races. 5 years later (1969) he came back to Cup racing to run 4 races. In 1970 at the age of 27 he ran Cup races till he retired in 1988 at age 47. He was nicknameed BP and The Professor.
He won the championship in 1973 and was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. He passed away in 2007 from complications resulting from lung cancer.
Two scenes in Days of Thunder were inspired when he drove for Hendrick Motorsports in 1987 as a substitute for driver Tim Richmond. During the first lap of a race at Darlington Raceway, Parsons hit the wall and badly damaged his race car. He was able to continue, but had to make several pit stops for repairs. At one point, his crew chief, Harry Hyde refused to allow Parsons to pit because he and the crew were on an ice cream break. Another scene in the film was inspired by a real-life incident at Martinsville Speedway involving Parsons and the notoriously cantankerous Hyde: Hyde sarcastically told Parsons to hit the pace car on a restart because it was the only thing on the track Parsons had not hit.
He began announcing as a pit reporter in the 1980s on ESPN and TBS while he was still racing part-time. After permanently retiring from racing in 1988, Parsons became a broadcaster – first on ESPN, and then with NBC and TNT in 2001. He received an ESPN Emmy in 1996, and the ACE Award in 1989.
Card #78 - Phil Barkdoll (September 9, 1937 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 9 years in 23 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 0 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Phil Barkdoll is a former NASCAR owner-driver from Phoenix, Arizona who only ran at two tracks in his entire career: Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.
Card #78 - Phil Barkdoll (September 9, 1937 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 9 years in 23 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 0 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Phil Barkdoll is a former NASCAR owner-driver from Phoenix, Arizona who only ran at two tracks in his entire career: Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.
NASCARD Radio take away: Charlotte Motor Speedway is the innovator for the sport. The combination of owner Bruton Smith and former President, General Manager and promoter Humpy Wheeler have set the standard when it comes to NASCAR racing innovation like the Speedway club, condos, lighting the track and safe barriers to name a few.
Card #82 - Riverside International Raceway (Closed)
NASCARD Radio take away: Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as RIR or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989. The original course design proved to be dangerous, and it was partially reconfigured in 1969.
The track was known as a relatively dangerous course, with its long, downhill back straightaway and brake-destroying, relatively slow 180-degree Turn 9 at the end. During the 1965 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race, Indycar great A.J. Foyt suffered a brake failure at the end of the straight, going end-over-end at high speed. Crash crews assumed Foyt was dead at the scene, until fellow driver Parnelli Jones noticed a twitch of movement.
Ford factory sports car driver Ken Miles was killed there in a testing accident in August 1966 when his Ford GT-prototype (known as the J-car) became aerodynamically unstable and flew out of control at the end of the back straight. In December 1968, American Formula 5000 champion Dr. Lou Sell crashed and overturned in Turn 9 on the first lap of the Rex Mays 300 Indianapolis-style race, suffering near-fatal burns.
These accidents and others caused track management to reconfigure Turn 9, giving the turn a dogleg approach and a much wider radius (a water improvement also closed the raceway for a few months).
In January 1964, Riverside also claimed the life of 1962–'63 NASCAR champion Joe Weatherly, who refused to wear a shoulder harness and wore his lap belt loosely. Weatherly died when he lost control entering Turn 6, hitting the steel barrier almost broadside and had his head snapped out the window against the barrier.
Nevertheless, in 1983 Turn 9 was the site of the only fatality in IMSA GTP history. In the 1983 Times Grand Prix, Rolf Stommelen's Joest-constructed Porsche 935 lost its rear wing at the Dogleg and hit two freeway-type barriers sending it into a horrific roll at Turn 9.
After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his #3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 25 years in 560 races with 0 Wins, 15 Top Fives, 103 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole
NASCARD Radio take away: Raced from 1964 to 1988 and was an Independent driver which means he didn’t have factory support from the car companies. If they tore up the race car it had to be fixed which cost money and it was better to finish the race in one piece. A wreck could be season ending on the budgets these independent drivers had. Race winnings were small compared to today and most of these Independent drivers had other jobs and worked on the car in their spare time. They also purchased used parts from the factory guys so they were running worn or older parts.
Card #85- Connie Saylor - (June 3, 1940 - February 4, 1993) Age 52
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 11 years in 58 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He did one-off events in the Winston Cup series during the 1980s and early '90s, and also raced in ARCA and Late Model sportsman series. Connie was married to Shirley Nowlin and had two children, Tracy and Tim Saylor. He started a mining/industrial tire and wheel business in Johnson City, TN in 1977 and it's still in operation today by his family.
Saylor was from Johnson City, Tennessee and he passed away due to cancer at the age of 52.
Card #86 - North Wilkesboro Speedway (Capacity 40,000)
NASCARD Radio take away: North Wilkesboro Speedway was a short track that held races in NASCAR's top three series from NASCAR's inception in 1949 until its closure in 1996.
Card #87 - 1987 Winston Cup Champion (Dale Earnhardt)
NASCARD Radio take away: This was considered Dale Earnhardt's rookie card back in 1988 (1983 UNO was XRC) since the #99B Promo was not released until 1994.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 5 years in 33 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: This card has two versions. The first is the Myrtle Beach version where the back has “Engaged” on it. The Charlotte version has “Wife” on it. 'Myrtle Beach version below'
Card #90 - Cale Yarborough (March 27, 1939 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 31 years in 560 races with 83 Wins, 255 Top Fives, 319 Top Tens and 69 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Cale raced for 31 years (1957 - 1988) and won 3 consecutive championships (1976, 1977 & 1978) and placed second in championship points 3 times as well. He ran a limited schedule from 1981 to 1988. He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest drivers and 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.
Card #91 - Michigan International Speedway (Capacity 85,000)
Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile (3.22-km) moderate-banked D-shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) in Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a "sister track" to Texas World Speedway, and was used as the basis of Auto Club Speedway. The track is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation (ISC). Michigan International Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports' premier facilities because of its wide racing surface and high banking (by open-wheel standards; the 18-degree banking is modest by stock car standards).
Michigan is now one of the fastest tracks in NASCAR due to its wide, sweeping corners and long straightaways; typical qualifying speeds are in excess of 190 mph (310 km/h) and corner entry speeds are anywhere from 215-220 mph (320 km/h).
I'd think any of the 1988 MAXX set Earnhardt cards (well ones where he is pictured, and not just the car) would be considered rookies. I do NOT consider the one many folks are all lala about which was a post set issue being a rookie. If the one above is considered the true rookie by the insiders, then so be it. even better, because I have a few ! Have seen those gold stamped versions of the 88 Maxx after set published 'non rookie' go for big dollars. Not supportive of that.
Card #92 - Eddie Bierschwale (June 29, 1959 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 10 years in 117 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He made his Cup debut in 1983 in a car owned by his father Don. In 1985 he got a full-season ride with D.K. Ulrich and stayed with the team until the end of the 1986 season when he was let go. After bouncing from team to team in 1987 he returned to his father's team in 1988 and participated in a partial schedule with them until he retired from racing in 1992. His best Cup finish was a 10th in the 1989 Daytona 500 (he started the car, but jumped out of the car in favor of Kyle Petty, who had failed to qualify for the race in his #42).
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 13 years in 313 races with 15 Wins, 68 Top Fives, 124 Top Tens and 22 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Ernie Irvan raced from 1987 to 1999. He is best remembered for his comeback after a serious head injury at Michigan International Speedway in 1994. During the first 20 races of the 1994 season Irvan was a contender for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series Championship. Entering the GM Goodwrench Dealer 400 at Michigan in August, Ernie matched Dale Earnhardt win for win with three each, led in Top-5 finishes and winnings and trailed Earnhardt by 27 points after having led the standings for most of the season. Although only running 20 out of 31 races in the 1994 season, Irvan led all drivers in miles led that season.
His chase for the championship ended on a Friday early-morning practice session at Michigan. According to drivers on the track, a right front tire deflated, sending Irvan's car into the Turn Two wall at over 170 miles per hour. Emergency workers at the track extricated him from the car, and he was immediately airlifted to Saint Joseph's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was diagnosed with critical brain and lung injuries and given only a 10% chance of surviving the night. Irvan clung to life for the first two days. By early September, Irvan was listed in "fair" condition and was removed from ventilator support. A few weeks later he was deemed well enough to be transferred to the Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation in Charlotte. A few weeks following the transfer, Ernie appeared and addressed the fans at the Charlotte Motor Speedway at the start of the UAW-GM 500.
Less than two months later, at the gala NASCAR Awards Banquet in New York, Irvan walked on stage at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's Grand Ballroom to receive the True Value Hard Charger Award. Despite missing the final 11 races at the end of the season, Ernie had still ranked among the top five for the most laps led. In addition, Ernie tied Geoff Bodine for the most poles won during the season.
He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
Card #98 - Michael Waltrip (April 30, 1963 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics **** (Still Racing Part-Time) **** Raced 28 years in 767 races with 4 Wins, 39 Top Fives, 129 Top Tens and 4 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Michael Waltrip is co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, and a published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500; having won the race in 2001 and 2003. He is also a commentator for SPEED TV's coverage of the Camping World Truck Series and is an analyst on the Showtime series Inside NASCAR, along with Chris Myers, Brad Daugherty, and Randy Pemberton. He currently drives the No. 40 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry part-time.
NASCARD Radio take away: #99 was supposed to be Dale Earnhardt in the 1988 Maxx set but legend has it Maxx and Dale Earnhardt could not come to terms. Unlike the other sports there is no players association in NASCAR so the card companies have to deal with each individual person to get their permission and compensate them for their likeness. Dale Earnhardt was one of the first to challenge companies and would sue if they used his likeness without compensation.
The #99 Dale Earnhardt card was designed and put on the 1988 Charlotte edition uncut sheets. There is a picture of the sheet, which included the #99 Earnhardt, in the October 1996 Beckett Racing Monthly Issue #26. So the card was printed and cut but held at the factory from being included in the 1988 Maxx packs and sets.
For a long time the 1988 Maxx set card #87 was considered his rookie card because he was pictured on it with his team. That's the closest fans could get to having a 1988 Maxx Dale Earnhardt rookie card. Maxx and Earnhardt came to terms in 1989 and Maxx used the same photo that they used for the 1988 #99 promo card for the 1989 Maxx #3 card.
The only licensed versions of the 1988 Maxx card are the ones with the Gold stickers numbered to 999 and the signed versions numbered to 100. You can read more about them here.
There are also counterfeit versions of the #99 Dale Earnhardt. You can find out information about the difference here as well.
The second version was of #99 is "Great Body" and that was used for both print runs.
NASCARD Radio take away: There are two version of the #4 Checklist. The Myrtle Beach version of the #4 checklist has Printed by Sheiar Press Myrtle Beach, SC on them.
Checklist #100 - Myrtle Beach Printing
Checklist #100 - Charlotte Printing
Recap First Edition Set = Myrtle Beach Set
First Annual Edition = Charlotte Set
Early in the 1989 Season this small Preview set came out. It included some unnumbered 1989 Maxx cards with 3 unopened 1988 Maxx packs. One thing I like about it is that on the back is a price guide for the 1988 Maxx cards. The first price guide for NASCAR Trading cards was born.
Close up of price guide back. Notice that #87 (Dale Earnhardt with team) is the most $$$ at 4.00!
It's early 1989 and we have seen some promotional cards given out in 1972, 1983, and 1985. The 1986 SportStars Photo-Graphics cards were not successful in the sense it made money for the person producing them.
In 1988 we saw the first mass distributed NASCAR trading card set. It was a huge hit and Maxx negotiated a 3 year exclusive license with NASCAR.
At this point all sports cards were getting national attention. Early in the 1989 season the Winners Circle Auto Parts Company led by W.C. Shackelford and Maurice Petty & Associates came up with a promotion. It was Say NO! To Drugs. If you lived through the 80's you have heard that saying many times.
The promotion went like this. Each week at a different track they would give away 5 different cards. The promotion included and might have started at Richmond International Speedway in February of 1989. Kids would sign a form stating that they would say No to drugs and they were given the cards. They were also given to schools that registered for the promotion. The kids would recieve a few cards.
Only Fred Lorenzen and Charlie Glotzbach had cards produced prior to this set! This set has 42 XRC rookie cards out of 45 cards in it. One card is a checklist.
Card #1 - Lee Petty (March 14, 1914 - April 5, 2000) Age 86
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 16 years in 427 races with 54 Wins, 231 Top Fives, 332 Top Tens and 18 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He raced 16 years from 1949 - 1964 (Age 50) Lee Arnold Petty was thirty-five years old before he began racing. He began his NASCAR career at NASCAR's first race at the three-quarter mile long dirt track, Charlotte Speedway. He finished in the Top 5 in season points for NASCAR's first eleven seasons. He won the NASCAR Championship on three occasions and the inaugural Daytona 500 in 1959. He was the cup champion 3 times (1954, 1958 & 1959). Lee Petty was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
This is his first card and was voted in to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in the Class of 2011. There is a variation on the card where NASCAR is missing on the back next to Career Highlights under Statistics.
Card #2 - Fred Lorenzen (December 30, 1934 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 12 years in 158 races with 26 Wins, 75 Top Fives, 84 Top Tens and 32 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Fred Lorenzen first appeared in the 1972 STP set. He only raced in the big events and about 50% of the time he finished in the Top 5! Fred Lorenzen was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 11 years in 130 races with 2 Wins, 29 Top Fives, 53 Top Tens and 5 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: "Tiger" Tom is a former NASCAR Grand National driver from Chicago. He made his Grand National debut in 1955. He won two races and finished 6th in championship points in the 1959 season for Carl Rupert, his best season statistically. He was away from NASCAR in 1963 and 1964, but returned in 1965 to drive in 33 races for Glen Sweet and Emory Gilliam, a career high, but only 8 top tens and a 32nd place points finish came of it.
In 1960, he wore a life preserver and an oxygen tube in his car while racing at Daytona for fear of running into the lake in the middle of the speedway and drowning. This happened after Tommy Irwin ran into the lake in the first qualifying race. Irwin did not drown, however.
On October 17, 2010, Pistone was one of the year's 15 inductees to the Racers' Reunion Hall of Fame, located at Memory Lane Museum in Mooresville NC.
Still active in racing at age 81, Pistone has a thriving race car parts business in Charlotte, NC, and can often be found mentoring young drivers at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He prepares and crews for several Legends and Bandolero drivers in the Winter Heat and Summer Shootout series.
In April 2011, Pistone appeared on an episode of The History Channel's American Pickers in which he sold items to be placed in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Card #4 - Tiny Lund (November 14, 1929 - August 17, 1975) Age 45
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 20 years in 303 races with 5 Wins, 54 Top Fives, 119 Top Tens and 6 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: DeWayne Louis "Tiny" Lund was ironically nicknamed "Tiny" due to his rather large and imposing size. His first win is the stuff of legends. If you saw it in a movie you would say it was fake.
In February 1963, Lund went down to Daytona shopping around for any ride. Lund's friend Marvin Panch, the driver for the Wood Brothers racing team, had an accident while testing an experimental Ford-powered Maserati sports car for the second Daytona Continental three-hour sportscar race (a precursor to the Rolex 24). Panch's car swerved out of control, flipped over and burst into flames. Lund ran into the inferno and managed to pull Panch out of the wreckage. For his actions, Lund was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Honor.
Panch, in hospital, asked Lund to race his car and Glen Wood agreed. He timed in fourth in individual qualifying trials, and finished sixth in the second qualifying race. Lund took the green flag from 12th on the grid.
The start of the race was delayed due to heavy rains, and then the first 10 laps were run under caution. As the green flag waved on the Great American Race, it was Fireball Roberts on pole and "Flying" Fred Lorenzen outside of him. Lorenzen led the race. Lund worked his way through the field. The Wood Brothers team had an ace up their sleeve – they planned to complete the race on one stop less than the field. Lund managed to take the lead very late in the race. Lorenzen passed Lund with 10 laps left to go, but Lorenzen ran out of gas and had to dive down pit road out of contention. Then Ned Jarrett made the pass on Lund for the top spot but with three to go he also ran out of gas. Lund's car ran out of fuel on the final lap, but he managed to coast home to win the 1963 Daytona 500.
In 1975, he entered an A.J. King Dodge in the Talladega 500 as first alternate; when Grant Adcox's car was withdrawn from the event, Lund was in and after a short track event that Saturday was flown down in Bobby Allison's private airplane. The race was delayed a week by heavy rains but on August 17 the green flag was waved by Juan Manuel Fangio.
On the seventh lap, Lund and J. D. McDuffie collided on the backstretch; Lund and McDuffie spun down the track as it turned into chaos behind them. Rookie Terry Link was spun straight into the drivers' door of Lund's Dodge and Link's Pontiac exploded in flames. Two spectators in the infield climbed over the catch fence, and with help from driver Walter Ballard, pulled Link from his car and managed to revive him. Lund, however, was pronounced dead at the scene. Drivers in race were not informed of the tragedy.
He was the NASCAR Grand American division champion 3 times (1968, 1970, 1971) and is named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
Card #5 - Paul Goldsmith (October 2, 1927 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 11 years in 127 races with 9 Wins, 44 Top Fives, 59 Top Tens and 8 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Goldsmith was a famous A.M.A. Grand National Championship motorcycle racer during the late 1940s through the mid-1950s. Paul Goldsmith raced in the cup series from 1956 to 1958 and then again from 1961 to 1969.
He was the winner of the final race at the famous Daytona Beach Road Course in 1958. He was also the only driver to win the Daytona Beach Road course both in a stock car and on a motorcycle.
Card #6 - Dick Hutcherson (November 30, 1931 - November 6, 2005) Age 73
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 4 years in 103 races with 14 Wins, 64 Top Fives, 73 Top Tens and 21 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Dick Hutcherson was an American businessman and a former stock car racer. A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Hutcherson drove in NASCAR competition from 1964 to 1967. In 1965 he finished second in the overall NASCAR Drivers Championship and had nine wins. In those 4 years 70.8% of the time he finished in the top 10 and 61% in the top 5, incredible!
He retired from full-schedule racing to concentrate on his chassis-building business in Charlotte. After four years of top-level racing he became crew chief for his friend and fellow driver David Pearson in 1968. The combination won the Cup championship in 1968 and 1969. In 1968 he also appeared in the Elvis Presley stock car racing movie Speedway.
Another step in his career became a reality after his tenure with Pearson when he was named general manager of Holman-Moody, a position he held until December 1971 when he and West Coast driver Eddie Pagan formed Hutcherson-Pagan, a business to build and repair race cars. The two were very successful as they built cars for A.J. Foyt, Darrell Waltrip, Rick Wilson, and others.
Card #8 - Charlie Glotzbach (June 19, 1938 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 15 years in 124 races with 4 Wins, 38 Top Fives, 50 Top Tens and 12 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Raced for 15 years (1960 to 1992). Ten of those years he raced in 9 or fewer races. A race season could have between 28 and 54 races per year. Charlie Glotzbach first appeared in the 1972 STP set.
Card #9 - Bob Welborn (05-05-1928 - 08-10-1997) Age 69
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 13 years in 183 races with 9 Wins, 58 Top Fives, 102 Top Tens and 7 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Bob Welborn was a former NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) driver. He was named to NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers list in 1998. He won the final three NASCAR Convertible Division championships in 1956, 1957, and 1958. Bob Welborn
Card #10 Bob Flock ( April 16, 1918 - May 16, 1964) Age 46
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 7 years in 36 races with 4 Wins, 11 Top Fives, 18 Top Tens and 3 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Before the Petty's & Earnhardt's there were the Flock's. Bob was the brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock and Fonty Flock, and the second female NASCAR driver Ethel Mobley. The four raced at the July 10, 1949 race at the Daytona Beach Road Course, which was the first event to feature a brother and a sister, and the only NASCAR event to feature four siblings. Ethel beat Fonty and Bob by finishing in eleventh. Bob raced from 1949 - 1956. He broke his neck in an accident at the end of the 1951 season - and then returned at Weaverville in 1952 and won. He ran four races in his final season in 1956 before he retired.
He sat on the pole for NASCAR's first race at Charlotte Speedway on June 19, 1949. He had two wins that season, and finished third in the points behind Lee Petty and champion Red Byron.
Funny Story The Flock family had an illegal moonshine business. The federal agents discovered that Bob Flock would be running a race in Atlanta, and they staked out the place to make an arrest. A gate opened as the race was beginning, and he drove on the track to take the green flag. The police vehicles quickly appeared on the track. They chased Flock for a lap or two before he drove through the fence. The police followed him until he ran out of gas later. Reminiscing years later, Bob said, "I would have won that race if the cops had stayed out of it".
Card #11 Fonty Flock ( March 21, 1920 - July 15, 1972) Age 52
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics Raced 9 years in 153 races with 19 Wins, 72 Top Fives, 83 Top Tens and 33 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Before the Petty's & Earnhardt's there were the Flock's. Fonty (Truman Fontello Flock) was the brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock and Bob Flock, and the second female NASCAR driver Ethel Mobley. The four raced at the July 10, 1949 race at the Daytona Beach Road Course, which was the first event to feature a brother and a sister, and the only NASCAR event to feature four siblings. Ethel finished 11th and beat Fonty (19th) and Bob (22nd). Fonty started racing in 1941 and won the championship in 1947 and after NASCAR was formed he ran from 1949 - 1949 to 1957.
During the early 1950s, Flock drove mostly in Grand National events. He finished second in the point standings in 1951, fourth in 1952, fifth in 1953, and tenth in 1955. He had established an insurance agency in Nashville and raced only part-time beginning in 1954. Link His First card.
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Card #72 - Harry Ranier/Lundy Shop
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Card #72 - Harry Ranier/Lundy Shop
This is the team that Robert Yates eventually bought with Davey Allison as the driver.
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Card #73 - Phoenix International Raceway (Capacity 67,000)
NASCARD Radio take away: Phoenix International Raceway, also known as PIR, is a one-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. The track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. Phoenix International Raceway is home to two annual NASCAR race weekends, one of 13 facilities on the NASCAR schedule to host more than one race weekend a year. The track is both the first and last stop on the West Coast, as well as the second and second-to-last track on the schedule.
Card #74 - Ken Schrader (May 29, 1955 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 28 years in 744 races with 4 Wins, 64 Top Fives, 184 Top Tens and 23 starting at the Pole.
Card #75 - Darrell Waltrip : Tide Chevrolet
Card #76 - Benny Parsons (July 12, 1941 - January 16, 2007) Age 65
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 21 years in 526 races with 21 Wins, 199 Top Fives, 283 Top Tens and 20 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Benny started one Cup race in 1964 at the age of 22 and left to run Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) races. 5 years later (1969) he came back to Cup racing to run 4 races. In 1970 at the age of 27 he ran Cup races till he retired in 1988 at age 47. He was nicknameed BP and The Professor.
He won the championship in 1973 and was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. He passed away in 2007 from complications resulting from lung cancer.
Two scenes in Days of Thunder were inspired when he drove for Hendrick Motorsports in 1987 as a substitute for driver Tim Richmond. During the first lap of a race at Darlington Raceway, Parsons hit the wall and badly damaged his race car. He was able to continue, but had to make several pit stops for repairs. At one point, his crew chief, Harry Hyde refused to allow Parsons to pit because he and the crew were on an ice cream break. Another scene in the film was inspired by a real-life incident at Martinsville Speedway involving Parsons and the notoriously cantankerous Hyde: Hyde sarcastically told Parsons to hit the pace car on a restart because it was the only thing on the track Parsons had not hit.
He began announcing as a pit reporter in the 1980s on ESPN and TBS while he was still racing part-time. After permanently retiring from racing in 1988, Parsons became a broadcaster – first on ESPN, and then with NBC and TNT in 2001. He received an ESPN Emmy in 1996, and the ACE Award in 1989.
Card #77 - Watkins Glen International (Capacity 41,000)
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Card #77 - Watkins Glen International (Capacity 41,000)
This was pre bus stop Watkins Glen due to J.D. McDuffie's fatal crash.
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Card #78 - Phil Barkdoll (September 9, 1937 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 9 years in 23 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 0 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Phil Barkdoll is a former NASCAR owner-driver from Phoenix, Arizona who only ran at two tracks in his entire career: Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.
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Card #78 - Phil Barkdoll (September 9, 1937 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 9 years in 23 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 0 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Phil Barkdoll is a former NASCAR owner-driver from Phoenix, Arizona who only ran at two tracks in his entire career: Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.
I believe Phil is an auctioneer these days.
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Card #79 - Charlotte Speedway Club
NASCARD Radio take away: Charlotte Motor Speedway is the innovator for the sport. The combination of owner Bruton Smith and former President, General Manager and promoter Humpy Wheeler have set the standard when it comes to NASCAR racing innovation like the Speedway club, condos, lighting the track and safe barriers to name a few.
Card #80 - Sterling Marlin (June 30, 1957 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 33 years in 748 races with 10 Wins, 83 Top Fives, 216 Top Tens and 11 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year.
Card #81 - Ken Schrader - Folgers Chevrolet
Card #82 - Riverside International Raceway (Closed)
NASCARD Radio take away: Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as RIR or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989. The original course design proved to be dangerous, and it was partially reconfigured in 1969.
The track was known as a relatively dangerous course, with its long, downhill back straightaway and brake-destroying, relatively slow 180-degree Turn 9 at the end.
During the 1965 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race, Indycar great A.J. Foyt suffered a brake failure at the end of the straight, going end-over-end at high speed. Crash crews assumed Foyt was dead at the scene, until fellow driver Parnelli Jones noticed a twitch of movement.
Ford factory sports car driver Ken Miles was killed there in a testing accident in August 1966 when his Ford GT-prototype (known as the J-car) became aerodynamically unstable and flew out of control at the end of the back straight. In December 1968, American Formula 5000 champion Dr. Lou Sell crashed and overturned in Turn 9 on the first lap of the Rex Mays 300 Indianapolis-style race, suffering near-fatal burns.
These accidents and others caused track management to reconfigure Turn 9, giving the turn a dogleg approach and a much wider radius (a water improvement also closed the raceway for a few months).
In January 1964, Riverside also claimed the life of 1962–'63 NASCAR champion Joe Weatherly, who refused to wear a shoulder harness and wore his lap belt loosely. Weatherly died when he lost control entering Turn 6, hitting the steel barrier almost broadside and had his head snapped out the window against the barrier.
Nevertheless, in 1983 Turn 9 was the site of the only fatality in IMSA GTP history. In the 1983 Times Grand Prix, Rolf Stommelen's Joest-constructed Porsche 935 lost its rear wing at the Dogleg and hit two freeway-type barriers sending it into a horrific roll at Turn 9.
After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his #3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.
Card #83 - Buddy Arrington (July 26, 1938 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 25 years in 560 races with 0 Wins, 15 Top Fives, 103 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole
NASCARD Radio take away: Raced from 1964 to 1988 and was an Independent driver which means he didn’t have factory support from the car companies. If they tore up the race car it had to be fixed which cost money and it was better to finish the race in one piece. A wreck could be season ending on the budgets these independent drivers had. Race winnings were small compared to today and most of these Independent drivers had other jobs and worked on the car in their spare time. They also purchased used parts from the factory guys so they were running worn or older parts.
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(I just realized they lifted my photo of his card for their web site from a site I use to have up on 1988 Maxx cards!)
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Card #84 - Double Pleasure
Card #85- Connie Saylor - (June 3, 1940 - February 4, 1993) Age 52
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 11 years in 58 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He did one-off events in the Winston Cup series during the 1980s and early '90s, and also raced in ARCA and Late Model sportsman series. Connie was married to Shirley Nowlin and had two children, Tracy and Tim Saylor. He started a mining/industrial tire and wheel business in Johnson City, TN in 1977 and it's still in operation today by his family.
Saylor was from Johnson City, Tennessee and he passed away due to cancer at the age of 52.
Card #86 - North Wilkesboro Speedway (Capacity 40,000)
NASCARD Radio take away: North Wilkesboro Speedway was a short track that held races in NASCAR's top three series from NASCAR's inception in 1949 until its closure in 1996.
Card #87 - 1987 Winston Cup Champion (Dale Earnhardt)
NASCARD Radio take away: This was considered Dale Earnhardt's rookie card back in 1988 (1983 UNO was XRC) since the #99B Promo was not released until 1994.
Card #88 - Ken Bouchard (April 6, 1955 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 5 years in 33 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: This card has two versions. The first is the Myrtle Beach version where the back has “Engaged” on it. The Charlotte version has “Wife” on it.
'Myrtle Beach version below'
'Charlotte version below'
Card #89 - Havoline Star Ford - Driver: Davey Allison
Card #90 - Cale Yarborough (March 27, 1939 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 31 years in 560 races with 83 Wins, 255 Top Fives, 319 Top Tens and 69 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Cale raced for 31 years (1957 - 1988) and won 3 consecutive championships (1976, 1977 & 1978) and placed second in championship points 3 times as well. He ran a limited schedule from 1981 to 1988. He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest drivers and 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.
Card #91 - Michigan International Speedway (Capacity 85,000)
Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile (3.22-km) moderate-banked D-shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) in Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a "sister track" to Texas World Speedway, and was used as the basis of Auto Club Speedway. The track is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation (ISC). Michigan International Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports' premier facilities because of its wide racing surface and high banking (by open-wheel standards; the 18-degree banking is modest by stock car standards).
Michigan is now one of the fastest tracks in NASCAR due to its wide, sweeping corners and long straightaways; typical qualifying speeds are in excess of 190 mph (310 km/h) and corner entry speeds are anywhere from 215-220 mph (320 km/h).
Card #92 - Eddie Bierschwale (June 29, 1959 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 10 years in 117 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 1 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He made his Cup debut in 1983 in a car owned by his father Don. In 1985 he got a full-season ride with D.K. Ulrich and stayed with the team until the end of the 1986 season when he was let go. After bouncing from team to team in 1987 he returned to his father's team in 1988 and participated in a partial schedule with them until he retired from racing in 1992. His best Cup finish was a 10th in the 1989 Daytona 500 (he started the car, but jumped out of the car in favor of Kyle Petty, who had failed to qualify for the race in his #42).
Card #93 - Jim Sauter (June 1, 1943 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 14 years in 76 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 4 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
Card #94 - Bobby Allison / Benny Parsons Cars
Card #95 - Ernie Irvan (January 13, 1959 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 13 years in 313 races with 15 Wins, 68 Top Fives, 124 Top Tens and 22 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Ernie Irvan raced from 1987 to 1999. He is best remembered for his comeback after a serious head injury at Michigan International Speedway in 1994. During the first 20 races of the 1994 season Irvan was a contender for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series Championship. Entering the GM Goodwrench Dealer 400 at Michigan in August, Ernie matched Dale Earnhardt win for win with three each, led in Top-5 finishes and winnings and trailed Earnhardt by 27 points after having led the standings for most of the season. Although only running 20 out of 31 races in the 1994 season, Irvan led all drivers in miles led that season.
His chase for the championship ended on a Friday early-morning practice session at Michigan. According to drivers on the track, a right front tire deflated, sending Irvan's car into the Turn Two wall at over 170 miles per hour. Emergency workers at the track extricated him from the car, and he was immediately airlifted to Saint Joseph's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was diagnosed with critical brain and lung injuries and given only a 10% chance of surviving the night. Irvan clung to life for the first two days. By early September, Irvan was listed in "fair" condition and was removed from ventilator support. A few weeks later he was deemed well enough to be transferred to the Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation in Charlotte. A few weeks following the transfer, Ernie appeared and addressed the fans at the Charlotte Motor Speedway at the start of the UAW-GM 500.
Less than two months later, at the gala NASCAR Awards Banquet in New York, Irvan walked on stage at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's Grand Ballroom to receive the True Value Hard Charger Award. Despite missing the final 11 races at the end of the season, Ernie had still ranked among the top five for the most laps led. In addition, Ernie tied Geoff Bodine for the most poles won during the season.
He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
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Card #96 - Red Baron Frozen Pizza Oldsmobile - Driver: Buddy Baker
Card #97 - Filling The Stands
Card #98 - Michael Waltrip (April 30, 1963 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics **** (Still Racing Part-Time) ****
Raced 28 years in 767 races with 4 Wins, 39 Top Fives, 129 Top Tens and 4 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Michael Waltrip is co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, and a published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500; having won the race in 2001 and 2003. He is also a commentator for SPEED TV's coverage of the Camping World Truck Series and is an analyst on the Showtime series Inside NASCAR, along with Chris Myers, Brad Daugherty, and Randy Pemberton. He currently drives the No. 40 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry part-time.
Card #99 - Great Body Dale Earnhardt (unlicensed)
NASCARD Radio take away: #99 was supposed to be Dale Earnhardt in the 1988 Maxx set but legend has it Maxx and Dale Earnhardt could not come to terms. Unlike the other sports there is no players association in NASCAR so the card companies have to deal with each individual person to get their permission and compensate them for their likeness. Dale Earnhardt was one of the first to challenge companies and would sue if they used his likeness without compensation.
The #99 Dale Earnhardt card was designed and put on the 1988 Charlotte edition uncut sheets. There is a picture of the sheet, which included the #99 Earnhardt, in the October 1996 Beckett Racing Monthly Issue #26. So the card was printed and cut but held at the factory from being included in the 1988 Maxx packs and sets.
For a long time the 1988 Maxx set card #87 was considered his rookie card because he was pictured on it with his team. That's the closest fans could get to having a 1988 Maxx Dale Earnhardt rookie card. Maxx and Earnhardt came to terms in 1989 and Maxx used the same photo that they used for the 1988 #99 promo card for the 1989 Maxx #3 card.
The only licensed versions of the 1988 Maxx card are the ones with the Gold stickers numbered to 999 and the signed versions numbered to 100.
You can read more about them here.
There are also counterfeit versions of the #99 Dale Earnhardt. You can find out information about the difference here as well.
The second version was of #99 is "Great Body" and that was used for both print runs.
Unlicensed #99 Dale Earnhardt card
Myrtle Beach & Charlotte Print Runs
Card #100 - Checklist # 4
NASCARD Radio take away: There are two version of the #4 Checklist. The Myrtle Beach version of the #4 checklist has Printed by Sheiar Press Myrtle Beach, SC on them.
Checklist #100 - Myrtle Beach Printing
Checklist #100 - Charlotte Printing
Recap
First Edition Set = Myrtle Beach Set
First Annual Edition = Charlotte Set
Early in the 1989 Season this small Preview set came out. It included some unnumbered 1989 Maxx cards with 3 unopened 1988 Maxx packs.
One thing I like about it is that on the back is a price guide for the 1988 Maxx cards. The first price guide for NASCAR Trading cards was born.
Close up of price guide back. Notice that #87 (Dale Earnhardt with team) is the most $$$ at 4.00!
It's early 1989 and we have seen some promotional cards given out in 1972, 1983, and 1985. The 1986 SportStars Photo-Graphics cards were not successful in the sense it made money for the person producing them.
In 1988 we saw the first mass distributed NASCAR trading card set. It was a huge hit and Maxx negotiated a 3 year exclusive license with NASCAR.
At this point all sports cards were getting national attention. Early in the 1989 season the Winners Circle Auto Parts Company led by W.C. Shackelford and Maurice Petty & Associates came up with a promotion. It was Say NO! To Drugs. If you lived through the 80's you have heard that saying many times.
The promotion went like this. Each week at a different track they would give away 5 different cards. The promotion included and might have started at Richmond International Speedway in February of 1989. Kids would sign a form stating that they would say No to drugs and they were given the cards. They were also given to schools that registered for the promotion. The kids would recieve a few cards.
Only Fred Lorenzen and Charlie Glotzbach had cards produced prior to this set! This set has 42 XRC rookie cards out of 45 cards in it. One card is a checklist.
Card #1 - Lee Petty (March 14, 1914 - April 5, 2000) Age 86
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 16 years in 427 races with 54 Wins, 231 Top Fives, 332 Top Tens and 18 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: He raced 16 years from 1949 - 1964 (Age 50) Lee Arnold Petty was thirty-five years old before he began racing. He began his NASCAR career at NASCAR's first race at the three-quarter mile long dirt track, Charlotte Speedway. He finished in the Top 5 in season points for NASCAR's first eleven seasons. He won the NASCAR Championship on three occasions and the inaugural Daytona 500 in 1959. He was the cup champion 3 times (1954, 1958 & 1959). Lee Petty was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
This is his first card and was voted in to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in the Class of 2011.
There is a variation on the card where NASCAR is missing on the back next to Career Highlights under Statistics.
Lots of Hall of Famers and future Hall of Famers
The black borders can be a beast.
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Card #2 - Fred Lorenzen (December 30, 1934 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 12 years in 158 races with 26 Wins, 75 Top Fives, 84 Top Tens and 32 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Fred Lorenzen first appeared in the 1972 STP set. He only raced in the big events and about 50% of the time he finished in the Top 5! Fred Lorenzen was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
Card #3 - Tom Pistone (March 17, 1929 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 11 years in 130 races with 2 Wins, 29 Top Fives, 53 Top Tens and 5 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: "Tiger" Tom is a former NASCAR Grand National driver from Chicago. He made his Grand National debut in 1955. He won two races and finished 6th in championship points in the 1959 season for Carl Rupert, his best season statistically. He was away from NASCAR in 1963 and 1964, but returned in 1965 to drive in 33 races for Glen Sweet and Emory Gilliam, a career high, but only 8 top tens and a 32nd place points finish came of it.
In 1960, he wore a life preserver and an oxygen tube in his car while racing at Daytona for fear of running into the lake in the middle of the speedway and drowning. This happened after Tommy Irwin ran into the lake in the first qualifying race. Irwin did not drown, however.
On October 17, 2010, Pistone was one of the year's 15 inductees to the Racers' Reunion Hall of Fame, located at Memory Lane Museum in Mooresville NC.
Still active in racing at age 81, Pistone has a thriving race car parts business in Charlotte, NC, and can often be found mentoring young drivers at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He prepares and crews for several Legends and Bandolero drivers in the Winter Heat and Summer Shootout series.
In April 2011, Pistone appeared on an episode of The History Channel's American Pickers in which he sold items to be placed in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
This is "Tiger" Tom's first card.
Card #4 - Tiny Lund (November 14, 1929 - August 17, 1975) Age 45
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 20 years in 303 races with 5 Wins, 54 Top Fives, 119 Top Tens and 6 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: DeWayne Louis "Tiny" Lund was ironically nicknamed "Tiny" due to his rather large and imposing size. His first win is the stuff of legends. If you saw it in a movie you would say it was fake.
In February 1963, Lund went down to Daytona shopping around for any ride. Lund's friend Marvin Panch, the driver for the Wood Brothers racing team, had an accident while testing an experimental Ford-powered Maserati sports car for the second Daytona Continental three-hour sportscar race (a precursor to the Rolex 24). Panch's car swerved out of control, flipped over and burst into flames. Lund ran into the inferno and managed to pull Panch out of the wreckage. For his actions, Lund was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Honor.
Panch, in hospital, asked Lund to race his car and Glen Wood agreed. He timed in fourth in individual qualifying trials, and finished sixth in the second qualifying race. Lund took the green flag from 12th on the grid.
The start of the race was delayed due to heavy rains, and then the first 10 laps were run under caution. As the green flag waved on the Great American Race, it was Fireball Roberts on pole and "Flying" Fred Lorenzen outside of him. Lorenzen led the race. Lund worked his way through the field. The Wood Brothers team had an ace up their sleeve – they planned to complete the race on one stop less than the field. Lund managed to take the lead very late in the race. Lorenzen passed Lund with 10 laps left to go, but Lorenzen ran out of gas and had to dive down pit road out of contention. Then Ned Jarrett made the pass on Lund for the top spot but with three to go he also ran out of gas. Lund's car ran out of fuel on the final lap, but he managed to coast home to win the 1963 Daytona 500.
In 1975, he entered an A.J. King Dodge in the Talladega 500 as first alternate; when Grant Adcox's car was withdrawn from the event, Lund was in and after a short track event that Saturday was flown down in Bobby Allison's private airplane. The race was delayed a week by heavy rains but on August 17 the green flag was waved by Juan Manuel Fangio.
On the seventh lap, Lund and J. D. McDuffie collided on the backstretch; Lund and McDuffie spun down the track as it turned into chaos behind them. Rookie Terry Link was spun straight into the drivers' door of Lund's Dodge and Link's Pontiac exploded in flames. Two spectators in the infield climbed over the catch fence, and with help from driver Walter Ballard, pulled Link from his car and managed to revive him. Lund, however, was pronounced dead at the scene. Drivers in race were not informed of the tragedy.
He was the NASCAR Grand American division champion 3 times (1968, 1970, 1971) and is named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.
This is Tiny's first card.
Card #5 - Paul Goldsmith (October 2, 1927 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 11 years in 127 races with 9 Wins, 44 Top Fives, 59 Top Tens and 8 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Goldsmith was a famous A.M.A. Grand National Championship motorcycle racer during the late 1940s through the mid-1950s. Paul Goldsmith raced in the cup series from 1956 to 1958 and then again from 1961 to 1969.
He was the winner of the final race at the famous Daytona Beach Road Course in 1958. He was also the only driver to win the Daytona Beach Road course both in a stock car and on a motorcycle.
His first card.
Card #6 - Dick Hutcherson (November 30, 1931 - November 6, 2005) Age 73
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 4 years in 103 races with 14 Wins, 64 Top Fives, 73 Top Tens and 21 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: Dick Hutcherson was an American businessman and a former stock car racer. A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Hutcherson drove in NASCAR competition from 1964 to 1967. In 1965 he finished second in the overall NASCAR Drivers Championship and had nine wins. In those 4 years 70.8% of the time he finished in the top 10 and 61% in the top 5, incredible!
He retired from full-schedule racing to concentrate on his chassis-building business in Charlotte. After four years of top-level racing he became crew chief for his friend and fellow driver David Pearson in 1968. The combination won the Cup championship in 1968 and 1969. In 1968 he also appeared in the Elvis Presley stock car racing movie Speedway.
Another step in his career became a reality after his tenure with Pearson when he was named general manager of Holman-Moody, a position he held until December 1971 when he and West Coast driver Eddie Pagan formed Hutcherson-Pagan, a business to build and repair race cars. The two were very successful as they built cars for A.J. Foyt, Darrell Waltrip, Rick Wilson, and others.
His first card.
Card #7 - Louise Smith (July 31, 1916 - April 15, 2006) Age 89
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 3 years in 11 races with 0 Wins, 0 Top Fives, 0 Top Tens and 0 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD Radio take away: She was the first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1999.
USA Today Article
Legends of NASCAR Link
Her first card.
Card #8 - Charlie Glotzbach (June 19, 1938 - Present)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 15 years in 124 races with 4 Wins, 38 Top Fives, 50 Top Tens and 12 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Raced for 15 years (1960 to 1992). Ten of those years he raced in 9 or fewer races. A race season could have between 28 and 54 races per year.
Charlie Glotzbach first appeared in the 1972 STP set.
Card #9 - Bob Welborn (05-05-1928 - 08-10-1997) Age 69
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 13 years in 183 races with 9 Wins, 58 Top Fives, 102 Top Tens and 7 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Bob Welborn was a former NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) driver. He was named to NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers list in 1998. He won the final three NASCAR Convertible Division championships in 1956, 1957, and 1958. Bob Welborn
This is his first card:
Card #10 Bob Flock ( April 16, 1918 - May 16, 1964) Age 46
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 7 years in 36 races with 4 Wins, 11 Top Fives, 18 Top Tens and 3 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Before the Petty's & Earnhardt's there were the Flock's. Bob was the brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock and Fonty Flock, and the second female NASCAR driver Ethel Mobley. The four raced at the July 10, 1949 race at the Daytona Beach Road Course, which was the first event to feature a brother and a sister, and the only NASCAR event to feature four siblings. Ethel beat Fonty and Bob by finishing in eleventh. Bob raced from 1949 - 1956. He broke his neck in an accident at the end of the 1951 season - and then returned at Weaverville in 1952 and won. He ran four races in his final season in 1956 before he retired.
He sat on the pole for NASCAR's first race at Charlotte Speedway on June 19, 1949. He had two wins that season, and finished third in the points behind Lee Petty and champion Red Byron.
Funny Story
The Flock family had an illegal moonshine business. The federal agents discovered that Bob Flock would be running a race in Atlanta, and they staked out the place to make an arrest. A gate opened as the race was beginning, and he drove on the track to take the green flag. The police vehicles quickly appeared on the track. They chased Flock for a lap or two before he drove through the fence. The police followed him until he ran out of gas later. Reminiscing years later, Bob said, "I would have won that race if the cops had stayed out of it".
Flock Family
His First card.
Card #11 Fonty Flock ( March 21, 1920 - July 15, 1972) Age 52
NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics
Raced 9 years in 153 races with 19 Wins, 72 Top Fives, 83 Top Tens and 33 starting at the Pole.
NASCARD RADIO.COM take away: Before the Petty's & Earnhardt's there were the Flock's. Fonty (Truman Fontello Flock) was the brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock and Bob Flock, and the second female NASCAR driver Ethel Mobley. The four raced at the July 10, 1949 race at the Daytona Beach Road Course, which was the first event to feature a brother and a sister, and the only NASCAR event to feature four siblings. Ethel finished 11th and beat Fonty (19th) and Bob (22nd). Fonty started racing in 1941 and won the championship in 1947 and after NASCAR was formed he ran from 1949 - 1949 to 1957.
During the early 1950s, Flock drove mostly in Grand National events. He finished second in the point standings in 1951, fourth in 1952, fifth in 1953, and tenth in 1955. He had established an insurance agency in Nashville and raced only part-time beginning in 1954.
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His First card.