Clifton “Coo Coo” Marlin, the NASCAR original who died Sunday at 73 with son Sterling Marlin at his side, got his nickname in a more innocent way than you might think. As a toddler on a Tennes ...

Clifton “Coo Coo” Marlin, 73, one of NASCAR’s early stars and father of current Nextel Cup driver Sterling Marlin, died of lung cancer Sunday in Columbia, Tenn. Although he never won a ...

Learn more. COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) – Clifton “Coo Coo” Marlin, one of NASCAR’s early stars and father of current Nextel Cup driver Sterling Marlin, died early Sunday after a battle with lung ...

NASCAR's early stars and father of current Nextel Cup driver Sterling Marlin, died Sunday after a ... donations can be made in Coo Coo's name to the American Lung Association.

Clifton “Coo Coo” Marlin, one of NASCAR’s early stars and father of current Nextel Cup driver Sterling Marlin, died early Sunday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 73. Marlin died in ...

He breathed his last on August 14, 2005. As a kid, Clifton Marlin was never able to pronounce his name properly and could only manage to say “Coo Coo”. Therefore, everyone started calling him ...

L.W. Wright, a con man, convinced Coo Coo Marlin and his son Sterling to sell him a race car and act as his pit crew chief for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega. Wright falsely claimed to have a ...

On a hot summer Saturday night at Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, the track where Marlin got his start under the guidance of his father, the late Clifton "Coo Coo" Marlin, he's back burning ...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) -- Clifton "Coo Coo" Marlin, one of NASCAR's early stars and father of current Nextel Cup driver Sterling Marlin, died early Sunday after a battle with lung cancer.

Clifton Burton "Coo Coo" Marlin was a recently retired country stock car legend. Blond as white oak, he made a name for himself on the short tracks of the South in his crime-scene red 1964 ...

This is the first in a three-part series from The Tennessean chronicling the story of L.W. Wright. Come back May 2 and May 9 for parts two and three. The con man parked his Cadillac in front of ...