Many of the trophies Cale Yarborough won across a 30-year career in auto racing no longer exist. Some were lost in a 1988 fire at his Florence, SC automobile dealership, and others vanished when a propane gas tank explosion destroyed one of the outbuildings on his farm in Sardis, S.C.
Not even a swath of destruction, however, could reduce the impact of this spark plug of a driver from South Carolina farm country. Racing on barely pennies at the start of his career, he persevered to become...Read Full Story
Emmy Award-winning NASCAR Media Group and SPEED announced today that a biography series of all five 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees will air on SPEED beginning this Friday, Dec. 9 with back-to-back shows featuring Cale Yarborough at 8 p.m. ET and Dale Inman at 9 p.m. ET.
The remaining biographies, also produced by NASCAR Media Group, will air on SPEED throughout December and January 2012: Richie Evans on Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. ET; Darrell Waltrip on Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET and...Read Full Story
If you have been following along for any time at all you know that the Forge Muscle Car Show in Kingsport TN on Oct. 1 and 2 is going to be home of the First ever Ford Talladega Family Reunion . The “Family” consists of three 1969 Ford products. The first is the Ford Talladega, the second is the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II and the third one is the car we cover today; the 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler.
1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler
During the 1968 NASCAR racing season the Ford Motor Company...Read Full Story
Jody Ridley (source : dirtfans.com )
Jody Ridley’s main claim to fame in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was that he earned the only Cup victory for the Donlavey team. Junie Donlavey provided cars for top drivers such as Joe Weatherly , Buck Baker , David Pearson , to name a few, for over more than fifty years but not one of these leading drivers were able to bring home the Cup for him.
Jody was already a successful short-track driver when the Donlavey team offered him a ride in the cup...Read Full Story
We will be attending the Good Guys Nashville event this weekend. We will be taking our Cale Yarborough and Dan Gurney Mercury Cyclones to the Muscle Car lot. We will also be looking for Feature Cars for the site. If you have an unusual Rat Rod, cool Hot Rod, wild Custom or outstanding Muscle Car send us an email or give us a call and we will look you up.
Better yet, if you are running in the speed event and be featured on our site also contact us. We want a few volunteers to run our...Read Full Story
Thank you very much. Cale Yarborough. He was always about believing in oneself, self-reliance, and the imagination to test it and test it completely. Dream big. That was Cale. Now, that was a gift that Julian and his mother, Anna Mae, they provided their ...
Photos courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame It’s been years now since NASCAR began the windup for its coming season with its annual Media Tour of shops and such in the Charlotte area. More recently, it’s been transitioning into a fan fest built around inductions of the sport’s greats into NASCAR’s Hall of Fame downtown. Each [...]
Yarborough, who won three straight Cup championships from 1976-78, was introduced by announcer Mike Joy. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Family was the prevailing theme as NASCAR inducted its third, and most diverse, class into the Hall of Fame. Cale Yarborough ...
Timmonsville South Carolina’s Cale Yarborough joins the other 14 men who have been inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Photo by Hunter Thomas
By: Hunter Thomas
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – After a long, rough career, Timmonsville’s Cale Yarborough was finally inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Friday, January 20.
From farming in nearby Sardis, S.C. in the hot summers, to racing underneath the Friday night lights at Florence Motor Speedway...
"The thing that separated Cale was he was as tough as a railroad spike," says long-time racing promoter Humpy Wheeler. Yarborough was struck by lightning while standing inside his home in his early teens. "What looked like a big fireball came ...
BRISTOL, Tenn. â NASCARâs legends were back where they belonged. And Sterling Marlin showed that he still has it. Marlin led all 35 laps and grabbed the checkered flag in the first-ever Scotts Saturday Night Special legends race at Bristol Motor ...
William Caleb (Cale) Yarborough (born March 27, 1940 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, near the famous Darlington Raceway), is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series ...