Apparently, at one point in time, Richard Petty’s mother told an interviewer that she didn’t name her son “Dick,” she named him “Richard.” Perhaps she stated that in response to articles like Jim McMichael’s profile on King Richard in the March 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, in which he chummily mixes in a “Dick” here […]

One of the featured classes at Amelia Island earlier this year was the cars of Richard Petty, though I don’t recall seeing this 1986 Pontiac Aerocoupe as part of that class. The seller stresses that this car is ready for vintage racing, which leads to the question: Would you race it? And in which venue? […]

He was so hooked that he wouldn’t run this bodystyle Charger in NASCAR, ever, using the ‘74-bodied car through ‘77.
Gave it the hook, more like.