Phil Patterson writes: Very nice, I hope they include Lee Petty's championship
winning 1954 New Yorker, not forward look, but a very significant car none the
less.Either way, I will be keepin my eyes open at Toys R Us next time I visit
them!
Thanks for the info!
Mike Sealey wrote:
> ---- Robert Whitman wrote:
>
> > Racing Champions is coming out with a few more finned Mopars in 1/64th scale
> > (Hot wheels and Matchbox size). As you may know they produce racing cars
> > and stock classics. They currently have a '57 Fury (very nice for $4!) and
> > a '60 Fury. They have come out with a Petty history series with most cars
> > raced/owned by Lee and Richard Petty. These include:
> > 1953 Coronet
> > 1954 Coronet
> > 1955 300-B
> > 1956 Coronet
> > 1959 Plymouth Plaza
> > 1960 Fury
> > 1962 Plymouth Savoy
> > 1963 Plymouth Savoy
> > 1964 Belvedere
> > 1965 Barracuda
> > and almost every other Petty car raced to present. More may be added
> > (hopefully a '57, '58, '61 Mopars, too).
>
> The Pettys had a factory deal with Oldsmobile in '57.
> GM "officially" quit direct factory support later that
> year, tho some Chevy and Pontiac teams continued to get
> GM support waaaaay under the table. Olds simply sold
> Lee Petty their entire supply of NASCAR stuff at an
> incredibly low price, which he continued using through
> '58 and into early '59 (Lee ran a '59 Olds in the '59
> Daytona 500, but was back in a Plymouth shortly thereafter). In fact,
Richard's
> first race car was an
> Olds, I believe a '57 convertible (NASCAR had a short
> lived convertible division).
>
> They definitely ran Plymouths in '61. I believe this
> was the year Lee had the bad accident that effectively
> ended the driving part of his career.
>
> Petty Enterprises stayed MoPar through the middle of the
> '78 season with the exception of '69, when they ran a
> F*rd Torino Talledega. This was the year Dodge got a
> couple of aerodynamic NASCAR models (Charger 500 and
> Charger Daytona). Chrysler expected the Pettys to keep
> running Plymouths but did not give them the aero help
> the Dodge teams got. The announcement of the Superbird
> in 1970 was accompanied by a press release welcoming
> the Pettys back, with a quote from Richard along the
> lines of "Plymouth is, well, like family..."
>
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