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Chevrolet small-block engine

Soon after being introduced, it quickly gained popularity among stock car racers, becoming known as the "Mighty Mouse" motor, after the popular cartoon character of the time, with the simpler "Mouse" becoming much more common as time went on.

Elephant Rally

Since 1989 the meeting has taken place in the same area as the Stock Car club.

Frankie Schneider

Frankie Schneider (born August 11, 1926) of Lambertville, New Jersey was a stock car, modified, midget, and sprint car racer.

Kenny Hendrick

Kenny Hendrick (born September 10, 1969), from Chino, California, is an American stock car racing driver.

Richard Boswell

Richard Boswell (born April 18, 1985 in Friendship, Maryland) is a stock car driver.


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1990s in Japan

A NASCAR exhibition race was held in Motegi, Japan during the late 1990s in the hopes of getting people interested in stock car racing.

1994 Slick 50 500

This race would be the final race in 1994 that Chevrolet would win; with the Chevrolet Lumina representing their manufacturing brand in the top-level professional stock car series at that time.

2005 Dickies 500

The 2005 Dickies 500 was the inaugural running of the Dickies 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race, which was held on November 6, 2005 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth, Texas.

2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen

The 2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 11, 2013 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.

Anthony Squire

He also worked as a second unit director in several films, in which he specialised in set pieces including the James Bond films Casino Royale (1967) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (the stock-car sequence) and Darling Lili (aerial sequences).

Aycliffe Stadium

However, photographs from 1955 of a driver's presentation evening at the North Briton Pub (in Aycliffe Village) suggest that stock car racing had already taken place at Aycliffe in 1955.

Billy Foster

Foster was cousins with musician, producer, composer, arranger David Foster and with Canadian stock car driver Jim Steen.

Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo

On 9 December 2007, Rafael Sperafico, of the Sperafico racing family, died during the final race of the Stock Car Light 2007 season at Interlagos.

Cascar

CASCAR The Canadian Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

Cross In Hand

Neil Thomas (Ashford, Kent) won all three Stock Car races that day with Trevor Carpenter winning one of the Superstox heats and Del Stickings winning the final.

Dougie Brimson

Brimson has co-hosted a late night comedy show on Liberty Radio, presented The Stock Car Show on Granada Men & Motors and presented the Madder Max show, also on Granada Men & Motors, which examined the diverse world of British motor sport.

Ed Samples

Samples raced at tracks such as Lakewood Speedway in the early, pre-World War II era of stock car racing; in the track's 1941 Labor Day event he battled for the lead before crashing out of the race.

Fireball 500

Stock car racing had already been the subject of Red Line 7000 but this movie would be specifically told from the teenagers point of view.

Food City

Food City 500, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Harringay Stadium

In 1979 the stadium enjoyed a brief spell of fame of a different kind when a stock car event at the stadium was used as one of the locations for the film The Long Good Friday.

Iggy Katona

In 1952, fellow Toledoan John Marcum created his Midwest Association for Race Cars as a Northern counterpart to the Southern stock car series of the day, Bill France's NASCAR.

Kieran Dynes

In 2001, at Charlotte (Lowe's Motor Speedway) final practice, Dynes was caught up in an accident which left him with back injuries, in 2003 he competed in Touring Cars and the ASCAR stock car series based at Rockingham England, Dynes along with IndyCar legend Dario franchitti are the only British drivers ever to compete in both the NASCAR Nationwide and the ARCA REMAX Series.

Let's roll

Bobby Labonte drove a 9/11 tribute car with the words "Let's Roll" on the hood of his stock car.

Lonsdale Sports Arena

Bill France and other stock car entrepreneurs tested the waters at Lonsdale to see if this stock car thing had longevity.

Madison International Speedway

The Madison International Speedway (MIS) is a stock car racing oval in the town of Rutland in rural Oregon, Wisconsin (near Madison) a short distance off of Wisconsin Highway 138.

Mike Chase

In addition to his racing career, in the early 1990s Chase worked as the head of stock car racing for A. J. Foyt Enterprises; he planned to attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on two occasions with the team, but was not approved by USAC for competition.

NASCAR Mexico T4 Series

The new "Mini Stock car", as it is called, is a Rear-wheel drive car (as opposed to the FWD Dodge Neon), and it features most of the elements of the larger stock cars (such as transmission, suspension, brakes, etc.), while keeping the 4-cylinder engine.

Occoneechee Speedway

The Occoneechee Speedway hosted stock car racing legends such as Fireball Roberts, Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson.

Robert Barker

Bootie Barker (born 1971), crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing series

Stephen W. Wood

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008);

Stock Car Corrida do Milhão

The Stock Car Corrida do Milhão (Stock Car Million Race) (current called Corrida do Milhão Goodyear) is a Stock Car Brasil auto racce held annually at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.

Stuart Boardley

He was born in Ipswich and is the younger brother of the current world stock car champion Carl Boardley.

Turn Left

NASCAR, or the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a motorsport where participants largely turn left.

Wild Rebels

The film starred Steve Alaimo as Rod Tillman, a stock car driver that goes undercover as the wheel man for a motorcycle gang.