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4 unusual facts about Bill Elliott


Damon Elliott

Damon Elliott, the son of actor/jazz drummer Bill Elliott and pop legend Dionne Warwick is a Multi-Diamond, Grammy Award-Winning producer.

Mac Tonight

In 1997 and 1998, McDonald's sponsored Bill Elliott's #94 NASCAR car, with Mac Tonight featured on the hood artwork.

Virginia Carroll

She appeared on screen in these westerns opposite Tex Ritter, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Gene Autry and Whip Wilson.

Wild Bill

Bill Elliott (born 1955), 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion and twice Daytona 500 winner


1988 Atlanta Journal 500

Bill Elliott would earn his only NASCAR Winston Cup championship here despite not finishing in the top ten; turning the race into the Cup Series' version of the classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare.

2007 Pep Boys Auto 500

In that race, which was held in November, Alan Kulwicki drove his self-owned #7 Hooters Ford Thunderbird to his lone Winston Cup championship to edge hometown favorite Bill Elliott from nearby Dawsonville by ten points, even though Elliott won the race.

2010 Gatorade Duels

Bill Elliott, Joe Nemechek, Scott Speed, and Bobby Labonte were the four fastest non-top 35 drivers, thus locked in.

Ray Evernham

In 2002, Evernham found success with his new program by witnessing Mayfield win the Winston Open, as well as Bill Elliott winning back to back in the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono and The Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Sudden Danger

Sudden Danger is a 1955 American film directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Bill Elliott and Tom Drake.

Tom Hubert

His second start during the 1998 season would come at Watkins Glen with Dan Marino and Bill Elliott's #13 team.


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1992 The Winston

9-Dave Mader III (advanced by driving a winning car in 1991; Bill Elliott had won for Melling's #9 at the Pepsi 400 in 1991)

Buddy Arrington

These cars were later re-skinned and re-wheelbased to Dodge Miradas and Chrysler Imperial/Cordobas to meet the new NASCAR 110" wheel-base rule in 1981 (Buddy could not afford to build, or buy new 110" cars) and later ex-Bill Elliott Fords.

In 1985 the generosity of rising NASCAR star driver Bill Elliott (who sold Buddy his slightly used Ford Thunderbird race cars and parts on the cheap) kept Buddy driving until 1988.