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17 de sept. de 2021 · In his inaugural 1960 season, Richard Petty laid down a marker as he finished second in the championship, driving one of two identical Plymouth Fury race cars. Richard drove one of the team...
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- Richard Petty’s First Full Year in NASCAR
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The year 1960 marked Richard Petty’s first full season in NASCAR. He finished second in the championship. Petty Enterprises fielded two identical Plymouth Fury race cars in the 1960 season. One was for Richard’s father, Lee Petty, who was one of NASCAR’s first superstars. The other Fury racer was for Richard, at the time just 22 years old. Both car...
The 1960 Plymouth Fury was proudly displayed for a decade at Historic Auto Attractions, a museum located in Roscoe, Ill. Wayne Lensing, the museum’s owner, purchased the car—which had been restored in North Carolina—at Indiana’s Kruse auction in 2008. The current eBay sale includes a Notarized Certificate of Authenticity dated and signed by Richard...
The car’s legendary hue was a happy accident. As legend has it, the team was short on white paint while brother and crew chief Maurice Petty was rebuilding one of the team’s cars late in the 1959 season. Richard found some dark blue paint lying around in the shop. When the Petty brothers mixed the blue paint with the white paint, they made magic. P...
There’s no mistaking this meticulously restored race car for what it is. The door-sized #43 makes it instantly identifiable as Richard’s car. The finned Petty Blue quarter-panels carry sponsor decals from Air-Lift, Gabriel shocks, and AAMCO—all outfits still around today. When compared to a modern race car, the interior is beautiful, spartan, and a...
5 de oct. de 2022 · Petty drove this stunning blue and white Fury in the 1960 Grand National Series, scoring three wins and 16 top-five finishes. These wins were his second, third, and fourth triumphs in NASCAR's...
5 de feb. de 2024 · It came on Feb. 28, 1960 in a 100-mile race on the half-mile dirt Charlotte Fairgrounds. Richard qualified seventh in his No. 43 Plymouth and ran, staying near the front.
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11 de nov. de 2022 · One of Richard Petty’s most famous early cars was his 1960 Plymouth Fury, which Autoevolution recently revealed was up for sale on eBay. Petty drove the car in the 1960 Grand National Series, where he notched three wins and finished among the Top 16 five times.
1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979. [ editar datos en Wikidata] Richard Petty (Level Cross, Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos, 2 de julio de 1937) es un expiloto de automovilismo de velocidad estadounidense especializado en stock cars .
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving the No. 43 Plymouth/Pontiac for Petty Enterprises.
