The first of its kind ever to enter international competition, a Homwet turbine-powered car is shown as driver Dick Thompson maneuvers it through one...
Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough and Kee Roy Yarborough, three high qualifiers in the Daytona "500," the world's richest stock car race.
Cale Yarborough is shown in the winner's circle after the Daytona 500. Yarborough took the 500 mile stock car race in a '68 Mercury, driving it at an...
This photo shows cars driven by Donal Bumgardner and Lennie Pond colliding during the Nascar 300 race. The front end of Pond's car was torn up while...
Richard Childress ran this 1968 Chevrolet Camaro in the first race ever held at Talladega Superspeedway, the Bama 400 for NASCAR Grand Touring cars...
Daytona 500: NASCAR founder and president Bill France Sr. Walking down raceway at Daytona International Speedway. Daytona, FL 2/16/1968 CREDIT: Eric...
Driver Red farmer poses in car before the Daytona 500 race on February 25, 1968 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Al Unser Sr. Next to the Cotton Owens '68 Dodge Charger prior to the 1968 running of the Daytona 500.
Martinsville Speedway began as a half-mile dirt oval in 1947, and remains as NASCAR's oldest sanctioned track.
Ground was broken for Talladega Superspeedway on May 23 and the first race was held September 14, 1969. In that time, the track has earned a...
Cale Yarborough passed LeeRoy Yarbrough with four laps to go and won the 1968 Daytona 500 on Februaru 25, 1968 in Daytona Beach, Florida by one...
Late-1960s: Between 1967 and 1970, Cale Yarborough won four NASCAR Cup races at Daytona International Speedway driving cars for the Wood Brothers...
Late-1960s: Leonard Wood of the Wood Brothers NASCAR Cup team next to an already well-worn Ford Torino Talladega that driver Cale Yarborough has put...
February 1968: Jeff Hawkins of Greenville, SC, drove this 1960 Ford to a fifth place finish in the Permatex 300 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman race at...
February 1971: Chuck Green drove this 1968 Ford to a seventh place finish in the Permatex 300 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman race at Daytona...
Late-1960s: Car owner Glen Wood rolls a tire through the garage area of Atlanta International Raceway before a NASCAR Cup race.
July 1969: After winning the Firecracker 400 NASCAR Cup race at Daytona International Speedway in both 1967 and 1968, things did not go as well for...
February 1968: Petty Enterprises chose to race “in style” for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup race at Daytona International Speedway, as Richard Petty’s...
Cale Yarborough dominated NASCAR Cup action during the year at Daytona International Speedway. Driving a Ford Torino for the Wood Brothers,...
Ray Hendrick sits inside his traditional coupe-style NASCAR Modified before a race at Martinsville Speedway.
Daytona 500: Portait of Cale Yarborough , LeeRoy Yarbrough , Mario Andretti , Richard Petty , and David Pearson before race at Daytona International...
July 20, 1968: Marty Robbins moves his Dodge Dart to the inside of the Plymouth Barracuda of Arnett Awtry during the Bristol 300 NASCAR Grand Touring...
“Little” Bud Moore of Charleston, SC, ran this Mercury Cougar for car owner Bob Wilson in several NASCAR Grand Touring races during the year.
McDuffie of Sanford, NC, ran the only Buick on the NASCAR Cup circuit during the season, a 1967 Skylark model. At Martinsville Speedway, McDuffie...
Tennessee driver Friday Hassler ran in 135 NASCAR Cup races between 1960 and 1972, taking a total of 48 top 10 finishes. Here, he works on a ’67...
February 24, 1968: Driver Pete Hamilton had a long association with Gene White, a Firestone Tire distributor out of Atlanta, GA, who sponsored this...
Paul Goldsmith ran 14 of the 15 NASCAR Cup races he entered in Plymouths and Dodges owned by Ray Nichels and sponsored by Valleydale Meats. His other...
Three-time NASCAR National Modified champion Bugs Stevens ran in the Permatex 300 at Daytona International Speedway four times from 1967 through...
Russ Moyer was a NASCAR vice president. He died at age 66 on April 17 after a long illness. He began with NASCAR in 1962, and was named executive...
1970s: Russ Moyer was a NASCAR vice president. He died at age 66 on April 17 after a long illness. He began with NASCAR in 1962, and was named...
Ken Rush, a veteran of the sportsman and modified ranks, became Talladega Superspeedway?s very first winner in its initial season, 1969. He was...
September 22, 1968: Buddy Baker drives the Ray Fox Dodge Charger around the Pontiac of Roy Tyner and the Buick of J. D. McDuffie during the Old...
Jimmy Vaughn of Greenville, SC, and his Chevrolet Camaro were regular fixtures with NASCAR’s Grand Touring/Grand American Division from 1968 through...
Late-1960s: Carl Bergman of Rehoboth, MA, started his racing career while he was serving in the military using the name "Bugs" Stevens, as the...
October 1968: Driver Marty Robbins helps change a tire on his Dick Behling-owned 1967 Dodge Charger during practice for the National 500 NASCAR Cup...
Driving the K&K Insurance Dodge of Nord Krauskopf, with Harry Hyde as crew chief, Bobby Isaac took a 36th place finish in the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup...
Hunt of Atlanta, GA, ran this Chevrolet Camaro on the NASCAR Grand Touring/Grand American circuit from 1968 through 1971, and took numerous top five...
July 1968: After winning the Firecracker 400 NASCAR Cup race the year before, Cale Yarborough gets set for another try in the event with the Wood...
February 25, 1968: Richard Petty leaves pit road after his crew had used duct tape to help hold the black vinyl top in place on his Plymouth during...
David Pearson checks out a photo of one of his biggest competitors, Fred Lorenzen, at a NASCAR Cup race. Oddly enough, it would be Pearson himself...
David Pearson began racing on the NASCAR Cup circuit in 1960 and continued to do so through 1986. During that period, Pearson entered 574 races and...
May 5, 1968: David Pearson pits his Holman-Moody Ford Torino during the Fireball 300 NASCAR Cup race at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway. Pearson went...
October 18, 1968: David Pearson in victory lane after winning the Western North Carolina 500 NASCAR Cup race at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway....
February 1974: Randy Bethea of Johnson City, TN, at Daytona International Speedway where he finished 26th in the Permatex 300 NASCAR Late Model...
Richard Brickhouse of Rocky Point, NC, began his NASCAR career in this former Petty Enterprises 1967 Plymouth owned by Dub Clewis. Brickhouse ran the...
Brothers Bobby and Donnie Allison at a NASCAR Cup race. Donnie leans against the car he was driving at the time, Banjo Matthews’ Ford Torino. Donnie...
Despite only a third grade education, Jake Elder became one of the top crew chiefs and mechanics on the NASCAR Cup circuit. Starting as a fabricator...
Richard Petty with his Plymouth NASCAR Cup car at Daytona International Speedway prior to the Daytona 500. Petty went on to an eighth-place finish in...
Al Unser with Cotton OwensÕ Dodge Charger at Daytona International Speedway. Unser drove the car to a fourth-place finish in the Daytona 500 NASCAR...
Sam McQuagg with his 1967 Dodge Charger at Daytona International Speedway. McQuagg started 10th in the Daytona 500 but a blown engine dropped him to...
Cars line up for the first race of the 1968 NASCAR Cup season at Middle Georgia Raceway. LeeRoy Yarbrough starts from the pole. Bobby Allison,...
David Pearson ran 27 seasons on the NASCAR Cup circuit and his 105 wins rank him second all-time behind Richard Petty. He finished in the top 10 in...
Car owner Cotton Owens and driver Buddy Baker shake hands. Baker ran the season opening NASCAR Cup race at Riverside, California, for Owens, and then...
Car owner Banjo Matthews with driver Donnie Allison. Allison ran 12 NASCAR Cup races for Matthews during the year, scoring a win in the Carolina 500...
Tiny Lund with Bud Moore's Mercury that he drove to a 9th-place finish in the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
Miami, Florida native Bobby Johns poses with his 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle that he drove in NASCAR Grand National competition from 1966 through 1968.
This Ford Pinto modified was built exclusively for the Permatex Corp. Without any engine gaskets to prove that Permatex sealants were strong enough...
Driving a Ford Torino for Holman-Moody Racing, David Pearson won NASCAR Cup championships in both 1968 and 1969.
Early-1960s: Bill Stroppe of Long Beach, CA, helped develop Ford Motor Company's motor racing program for Indy Cars, Stock Cars and road races. He...
September 22, 1968: Buddy Baker races his damaged Ray Fox 1968 Dodge Charger around the 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle of Dave Marcis , as David Pearson...
