Charles Everett “Hoss” Ellington passed away May 31, and another small part of NASCAR’s colorful history has been silenced. Ellington, a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, was 79.

Former NASCAR team owner and driver Charles "Hoss" Ellington has passed away at the age of 79. Ellington, a native of Wilmington, N.C., won five races as a car owner in NASCAR's premier division ...

Back in 1987, Bodine was simply grateful for the chance to run a partial schedule in Hoss Ellington's No. 1 Bull's Eye Barbecue Sauce Chevrolet and green enough to worry that a rookie mistake ...

Former NASCAR driver and team owner Hoss Ellington, 79, died at his Wilmington home Saturday morning after a long battle with liver cancer. Ellington made 21 NASCAR Cup starts in the 1968-70 seasons.

Hoss Ellington drove Cale Yarborough home from Daytona Beach, Fla., on that February Monday 30 years ago. He did so because he said he would, and if his driver and chief mechanic followed through ...

Growing up in Wilmington, N.C., Michael Jordan would hop on his bicycle, meet his buddies from junior high and head down to Hoss Ellington’s nearby garage. The sounds, smells and occasional ...

Many years ago in Wilmington, North Carolina, Michael Jordan's father once worked on cars together with longtime NASCAR car owner Hoss Ellington. Decades after his father's work with Ellington ...

And you know what? It was." No one enjoyed the gamesmanship of bending the NASCAR rulebook more than Hoss. It was Ellington's car that A.J. Foyt was driving when it won the pole for the 1976 ...

Sterling Marlin, driving Hoss Ellington’s Chevrolet, put Wednesday’s troubles on ice Thursday to set a Firecracker 400 record qualifying lap of 203.666 mph. Ellington was fined $5,000 after a ...