Try to picture the chaos of Darlington Raceway in 1970, where the Rebel 400 turned into a heart-stopping moment that still ...

"Once I started going to races and working in his pit crew in the early (1970s ... who Richard Petty was to people. "That was a pretty cool moment." Erie area residents, be they auto racing ...

And he didn’t just keep racing. He kept winning.” Brad Keselowski isn’t wrong. Richard Petty had his fair share of terrifying wrecks. The one at Darlington comes to mind in 1970. It is a ...

And he didn’t just keep racing. He kept winning. (Original Caption) Richard Petty’s arm hangs out the window of his ... car hit the retaining wall along the pits and took off in this 1970 crash at ...

His car, the iconic blue 1970 Plymouth Superbird ... He is the 4th generation of the racing royalty, being the son of Rebecca Petty and the grandson of King Richard Petty. And do you know what ...

Petty did plenty of that over the first decade of his career, including that final dirt event in 1970 ... racing's past that's been in the garage for five decades. For Petty — front man for ...

Sean Gardner//Getty Images Back in the 1970s, Richard Petty was easily the most popular driver in stock car racing. And his Petty blue and STP red Dodge Charger was the most identifiable car in ...

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The connection between honkytonks and high bank turns was never stronger than in the mid-1970s ... Richard Petty told Southern MotoRacing. Not only did Kyle Petty go on to have a 30-year racing ...