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Career
Achievements
- 1958 - 2nd in Grand
National (Winston Cup) Drivers points
- 1959 - Charter Member
Pure-Darlington Record Club
- 1961 - First Pontiac
to win Daytona 500
- 1963 - SMPA Myers
Brothers Memorial Award
- 1965 - First driver
to sweep both Atlanta races
- 1966 - Unocal 600
Winner's Association Inductee
- 1976 - Honored by
Charlotte Motor Speedway - Marvin Panch Day
- 1986 - Honorary Starter
- Budweiser at the Glen, Watkins Glen International
- 1987 - National Motor
Press Association Hall of Fame
- 1988 - Presented with
Key to City of Daytona Beach
- 1993 - Legends of
Auto Racing Inaugural Inductee
- 1995 - Western Motor
Sports Writers Hall of Fame
- 1998 - *Voted one
of Nascar's 50 Greatest Drivers
- 2001 - Daytona Beach
Rotary Club Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame
- 2002 - Western Stock
Car Racing Hall of Fame
* Here is the
panel of stock-car racing experts NASCAR chose to select the 50
Greatest Drivers in the organizations 50-year history: Bobby
Allison, Jack Arute, Buck Baker, Richard Childress, John Cooper,
Dick Dolan, Junie Donlavey, Dale Earnhardt, Chris Economaki, Bill
Elliott, Joe Epton, Tim Flock, Jim Foster, Ray Fox, Jeff Gordon,
Barney Hall, Bob Harmon, Eloise Hawkins, Rick Hendrick, Tom Higgins,
Phil Holmer, Jim Hunter, Jack Ingram, Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson,
Terry Labonte, Fred Lorenzen, Hershel McGriff, Ralph Moody, Bud
Moore, Cotton Owens, Earl Parker Sr., Raymond Parks, Benny Parson,
David Pearson, Lee Petty, Richard Petty, Benny Phillips, Larry Phillips,
Les Richter, T. Wayne Robertson, Paul Sawyer, Ken Squier, Herb Thomas,
Steve Waid, Rusty Wallace, Darrell Waltrip, Waddell Wilson, Glen
Wood, Leonard Wood, Cale Yarborough, Robert Yates.
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