70 — The r/NASCAR Historian

Jim Hamlet on Instagram: "Richard Petty’s #43 1969 Ford Torino on Display | NASCAR Grand National Series | Mooresville, NC Take a close look at Richard Petty’s #43 1969 Ford Torino, a classic NASCAR Grand National Series car now on display in Mooresville, North Carolina. This iconic machine represents one of the most legendary eras in NASCAR history and showcases the “King’s” famous paint scheme. 📍 Location: Mooresville, North Carolina 🏁 Series: NASCAR Grand National Series 🚗 Car: 1969 Ford T

Jim Hamlet on Instagram: "Bobby Allison’s 1969 Mercury Cyclone on Display | NASCAR Grand National Series Take a close look at Bobby Allison’s 1969 Mercury Cyclone, a historic NASCAR Grand National Series race car now on display. This classic machine represents an important era of stock car racing and one of the legendary cars driven by Allison early in his NASCAR career. 🏁 Series: NASCAR Grand National Series 🚗 Car: 1969 Mercury Cyclone 👤 Driver: Bobby Allison"

Archive Racing🏎️🏁 on Instagram: "In the early days of stock car racing, NASCAR held races on the sand of Daytona Beach, using a public beach and road course that zigzagged between hard packed sand along the Atlantic shoreline and paved sections of South Atlantic Avenue in Florida. The layout stretched roughly 4.1 miles (about 6.6 km) and hosted NASCAR’s premier series, then called the Grand National Series, from 1949 through 1958. Cars thundered down the beach straight before turning back onto