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Thanks to his 28 Top 10 finishes (25 Top 5 finishes and 8 victories), Petty went on to win his 4th NASCAR Cup Series championship. 1972 was a year of change in other ways, as it was the last year where Petty would campaign a Plymouth-based race car; as in the middle of the year, he debuted to drive a newly built 1972 Dodge Charger in a few ...
The 1974 National 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series ... his #3 Dodge Charger finished 29th after a blown engine with ... Richard Petty '74 Dodge: 34.276: 157.545 ...
Petty won 200 races from 1960 to 1984. Of those, 196 wins came with Petty Enterprises, mainly in the No. 43 but also in Nos. 41 and 42 from 1962 to 1966.Petty ran two dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises, winning both starts.
Dodge Charger. We aren't talking about the muscle car of today, or even the one Richard Petty won races with in the early 1970s: We're talking about the ugly, god-forsaken “luxury” vehicle ...
Petty's fans were also mostly Dodge fans, so when word got out about the Mirada, over 15,000 people attended just to watch Petty test. Unfortunately for Richard, the Dodge's top speed averaged at 186 miles per hour, about 8 miles per hour slower than his fellow GM and Ford competitors. So, Petty abandoned the Dodge Mirada, and purchased a Buick ...
Richard Petty won 35 races with this body style between 1972 and 1977, when NASCAR allowed the Chargers to run a few years longer than normal because Chrysler did not have a replacement car. A 1974-bodied Charger driven by Neil Bonnett scored Dodge's last NASCAR victory (until 2001) at the December 1977 Los Angeles Times 500. Richard Petty ...
Richard Petty won 200 races from 1960 to 1984. Of those, 196 wins came with Petty Enterprises , mainly in the No. 43 but also in Nos. 41 and 42 from 1962 to 1966. Petty ran two dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises, winning both starts.
Richard Petty: Petty Enterprises: 1974 Dodge: 200 $39,650 74 3:11:38 2 4 11 Cale Yarborough: Richard Howard 1974 Chevrolet: 200 $21,250 9 +47 Seconds 3 12 83 Ramo Stott: Norris Reed 1974 Chevrolet: 200 $11,390 0 Lead lap, under green flag 4 31 14 Coo Coo Marlin: H. B. Cunningham 1973 Chevrolet: 200 $8,350 7 Lead lap, under green flag 5 35 50 A ...