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On November 5, 1978, Dale Sr. drove the #98 car in the Dixie 500 at Atlanta International Raceway. He also drove the # 96 1978 Ford Torino and the # 8 1956 Ford Victoria.
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DE drove a yellow 56 Ford in 1971, it was his 2nd car.. owner was James Miller, sponsor Main Texaco, he drove it in the Gascar series on dirt tracks in the Carolinas..
In 1970, when Dale Earnhardt was 19 years old, his neighbors let him have their 1956 Ford Victoria. His father Ralph built the engine and the friends of the family helped paint it. When they mixed the paint it accidentally came out pink. Since they did not have enough money to repaint the car, it was left that way. Dale drove the pink race car around the local dirt tracks of North Carolina.
Dale Sr. won three Nascar Cup Series races driving a Ford. One victory came in 1982 and two more in 1983.
In 1970, when Dale Earnhardt was 19 years old, his neighbors let him have their 1956 Ford Victoria. His father Ralph built the engine and the friends of the family helped paint it. When they mixed the paint it accidentally came out pink. Since they did not have enough money to repaint the car, it was left that way. Dale drove the pink race car around the local dirt tracks of North Carolina.
Dale Ford was born in 1942.
Yes. He drove the pink 1956 Ford Victoria number K-2 very early in his career. In 1982 Earnhardt left Rod Osterlund and spent the '82 and '83 seasons behind the wheel of the #15 Wrangler Ford Thunderbird for Bud Moore. He began racing for Richard Childress in '84 in what amounted to a driver swap with Ricky Rudd. The 1956 Ford Victoria was Dale Sr's first dirt track car. In 1978 Dale drove a #96 Ford in four races for Will Cronkrite.
Kasey Kahne drove the #9 Budweiser Ford in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series from 2008 to October 16, 2010. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the full time driver of the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet from 2000-2007.
Not to my knowledge, he did drive a pink Ford. The k2, which was his first race car. He drove the pink car for part of 1980 and the other part of 1980 he drove the Oldsmobile owned by Rod Osterlund and it was sponsored by Mike Curb productions. His first dirt-track car was a 1956 hot-pink Ford Sedan, which he got from his neighbors, David and Ray Oliver. His father had built the engine, and some other friends, Frank and Wayne Dayvault and their cousin Gregg, tuned it. They intended to paint the car avocado green, but a paint mishap resulted in the car being pink. They could not afford to repaint it, and he raced the pink car on dirt tracks around Charlotte, North Carolina. Dale Earnhardt did drive a Pontiac in 1981 sponsored by Wrangler, but it was not pink In 1980, Dale Sr. drove 28 races with a Chevrolet and 3 races with an Oldsmobile. He only drove a Pontiac during the 1981 season. The pink car was his first dirt track car and it was a Ford.