In the early seventies a driver by the name of Dan White drove a 72 plymouth with the number 99. I saw him race the miller high life 500 at Ontario motor speedway with this number.
Actually, that is 1980. They only ran the caprice in that year.The picture is from the 1980 night race at bristol. I was there, it was Richard's last pole position.
Chrysler ran out of $ for engine design and performance parts it wasn't so much the car ... it came around with some top 5 & 10s. All Chrysler teams ran out of blocks about that time and were scrounging in junkyards for performance parts.
this photo is exactly what im looking for, thank you soo much for posting it, as I currently have a beater 1972 pontiac lemans / endura option car, with same front clip as above car, and am concidering a vintage nascar build up, as the car is just covered in rust, this might be how it ends up looking. ill send pix if I get any progress done soon, and if you find any more shots of this car can ya send them to me? thanks rampbrian@yahoo.com
After Harry Hyde sued Jim Stacey for not paying the bills to keep the team going a court Judge ordered the Dodge Magnums (3 of them I think) and spare parts padlocked behind a fence in June 1978. Stacey rented this Chevy and an Olds and hired pit crews on a week by week basis to keep Neil Bonnet (and Ferril Harris for two races) going thru the end of the season. The financial disruptions (and the switch away from the superbly prepared Hyde Dodges) really messed up the rest of Neil's year with only one top-10 finish (after parking the Magnums) to show for his superior talents.
One of the very few times in the 80's when there was more than one Mopar on a race track. In 83 Cecil Gordon campagined this #24 Imperial (a former Negre Bros Mirada re-skinned) in ARCA and in the 8 cup races he managed to qualify for. As Buddy Arrington generally only ran the Dodge Mirada (either in all Blue or this blue/red scheme) on the short/medium tracks I'm guessing that's where this pix is from. Buddy suffered a down season in 83 (after his 1982 7th place in points effort) by finishing in the top 10 only twice. Cecil's best finish in the Imperial was 15th, but only had one DNF in his eight races. After the 83 season he sold the car.
Buddy Bakers Pety built 71 Charger. This car raced thru the end of the 72 season (painted STP red) and then was sold to Ray Elder who raced it as a Charger until end of 77. It was then re-skinned as a Magnum for the 1978 season and raced until 1983 in ARCA. The car was discovered last year virtually intact (as a Magnum) in a junkyard in SoCal and is now owned by Mr. Darryl Kinnane who (as of our last correspondance) is restoring it though he is waffling between making it a Petty Magnum, or putting a Charger body back on it and making it look like this picture. I have been trying to persuade him to keep it as a Magnum, as it is the only one (other than Marty Robbin's in the Talledega museum) still in existance!
Cecil's last machine for CUP races was this #24 Chrysler Imperial. I believe I read somewhere that this car was Norm Negre's 81 Mirada (which was run approx 8 times by Dave Marcis, Rick Wilson, and Randy Becker during the 81-82 seasons) and was reskinned to an Imperial (as it was a bit cleaner for the superspeedways) and then sold to Cecil just before the start of the 83 season. Cecil managed to qualify for 8 races (though he tried on several more instances) with 15th being his best finish. After the end of the season Cecil sold the car and retired. The car probably made its way to ARCA though hard to say.
One of Petty's Chargers in its final season (1977) colors. These cars raced up until the January 1978 Riverside race, then were replaced with newly built Magnums.
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