Cale Yarborough

The Car Rather than experiment with strangers’ cars we decided to do our very first Riding Shotgun using one of our own cars. Katrina and I purchased this 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Cale Yarborough Special out of Iowa in the spring of 2005. At the time it was an average quality driver car. It had previously sat for many years having been sold new out of Marshalltown, Iowa and then spending time in areas around Oskaloosa (my hometown) and Ames (where I attended college). Although I lived...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 teams...Read Full Story

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 one...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 Glen...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 Series in...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 new...Read Full Story

Cale Yarborough by Ted Van Pelt (Wiki Commons) Cale Yarborough was not only one of the greatest stock car drivers to have lived but he was also an  accomplished sportsman, gaining a scholarship in football and was a Golden Glove champion.  He taught himself to fly in a Piper Cub aeroplane, learned to parachute and is reputed to have wrestled alligators, he’s an action man! Born on 27th March 1939 in Timmonsville, South Carolina William Caleb Yarborough was the eldest of three sons to Julian...Read Full Story

Here it is! The #21 Cale Yarborough 1968 Wood Brothers Cyclone diecast in 24th scale detail. Have it Autographed or not your choice. These are ready for pre-order right now but won’t be shipping until December 2011. Order yours now with free shipping at our online Store; just $89 Autographed or $69 without!Read Full Story

ABC NewsHall of Fame profile: Cale YarboroughSportingNews.comCale Yarborough was the first driver to win three consecutive Cup championships (1976-78). He won 28 of the series' 90 races in that stretch, finishing outside the top five only 20 times. Yarborough won 83 races in his 31-year career, which ranks sixth ...Yarborough, Waltrip among those voted into NASCAR HOFMiamiHerald.comDarrell Waltrip, Cale Yarborough to be inducted into NASCAR Hall of FameFlorida Times-UnionNASCAR Hall of Fame...Read Full Story

Globe and MailWaltrip, Yarborough highlight five voted into Hall of FameSportingNews.comCHARLOTTE—Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip, two drivers that helped push NASCAR onto the national stage and keep it there from the latter half of the 1970s through the 1980s, headline the five-member class of 2012 inductees for the NASCAR Hall of ...Give this HOF class an A+ gradeFOXSports.comWaltrip in 2012 NASCAR HOFCincinnati.comWaltrip, Yarborough make NASCAR Hall of FameTucson CitizenMiamiHerald...Read Full Story