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228 Lee Petty Nascar Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Winner Lee Petty edges his Oldsmobile past the Ford Thunderbird of Johnny Beauchamp to win the first Daytona 500. Beauchamp was initially flagged the...

1959 Daytona 500

Lee Petty may not have been known in the racing circles as a patient man, but following the inaugural Daytona 500 on February 22, 1959 in Daytona...

Lee Petty Poses with Trophy for Winning The First Daytona 500

Richard Petty and his father Lee Petty take a break for a photo at a NASCAR Cup event.

Richard and Lee Petty

February 24, 1961: Lee Petty starts to crash through the guard railing after tangling with Johnny Beauchamp on lap 37 of the second qualifier for the...

Petty/Beauchamp Crash - NASCAR Daytona 1961

February 24, 1961: Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp sail over the turn four railing of Daytona International Speedway after tangling on lap 37 of the...

Petty/Beauchamp Crash - Daytona NASCAR 1961

Lee Petty’s Plymouth is refueled on a pit stop during the Rebel 300 NASCAR Cup race at Darlington Raceway. Petty would go on to finish fourth in the...

National Cup Series champion Lee Petty poses for a portrait while sitting in his car circa 1954.

Lee Petty driver of the Oldsmobile races to the line against Johnny Beauchamp driver of the Holman Moody Ford during the first 1959 Winston Cup...

1959 Winston Cup Daytona 500

August 16, 1959: Bob Welborn completes a pit stop on his way to winning the Western North Carolina 500 NASCAR Cup race at Asheville-Weaverville...

Bob Welborn - Weaverville NASCAR Winner 1959

Lee Petty entered 42 of the 44 NASCAR Cup races during the year and scored 11 wins along with 35 top 10 finishes to win his third, and final, NASCAR...

Lee Petty - NASCAR 1959

Maurice Petty, representing 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame member Lee Petty, poses during the Hall of Honor unveiling at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 24,...

NASCAR Hall of Fame - Hall of Honor Unveiling

Lee Petty ran in 427 NASCAR Cup events during a career that spanned the years 1949 through 1964. He won 54 races and finished in the top ten 332...

Lee Petty - NASCAR 1950s Champion

Johnny Beauchamp driver of the Ford stands in victory lane in what he thought was his victory, but was actually a victory for Lee Petty after the...

Daddy Lee Petty stands by his car, with son Richard behind the wheel. Richard worked on his father's crew before he began driving, and was even...

Lee Petty and Richard Petty

February 19, 1961: At Daytona International Speedway, Lee Petty is shown on his way to victory in the Cannonball Compact race driving a Plymouth...

NASCAR Daytona 1961 Cannonball Compact Race - Winner Lee Petty

February 24, 1961: Lee Petty’s Plymouth rests against a chain-link fence near the turn four tunnel entrance outside Daytona International Speedway...

Lee Petty Wreck - NASCAR Daytona 1961

Lee Petty and his son Richard Petty check tire pressure’s on Lee’s NASCAR Cup car at a NASCAR Cup race.

Pettys - NASCAR 1950s

Richard Petty and his father Lee Petty pose with a plaque given to Richard by Darlington Raceway. The plaque commemorates the younger PettyÕs 55th...

Richard and Lee Petty

When Lee Petty speaks, people listen. At the Plaza Hotel during the NASCAR Banquet, listeners included Ronney Householder , new boss of Chrysler's...

Lee Petty in the Dodge car races along the beach as Junior Johnson in the Pontiac car spins out during the Daytona Beach and Road Course on February...

NASCAR Daytona Beach and Road Course

Adam Petty became the first fourth-generation athlete in all of professional sport as he stand between his grandfather Richard Petty and his father...

Bobby Allison topped his son, Davey, by two car lengths in the 1988 Daytona 500. It was only the second time in NASCAR Cup Series history that a...

Early-1950s: Brewster Shaw, owner of San Juan Motors, a Chrysler-Plymouth dealership in Daytona Beach, poses with Lee Petty’s NASCAR Cup Plymouth on...

Brewster Shaw - Daytona Petty Car Early 1950s

Portrait of the Petty family Kyle Petty, Adam Petty, Richard Petty, and Lee Petty during photo shoot. Level Cross, NC CREDIT: Bill Frakes

The Petty Family

Gwynn Staley hits the guardrail after tangling with Doug Yates on lap 57 of the Southern 500 NASCAR Cup race at Darlington Raceway. Ralph Moody is in...

1956 Southern 500

Richard PettyÕs battered Plymouth sits next to his father LeeÕs destroyed car after both crashed during their respective qualifying races for the...

Bobby Myers poses with his Lee Petty-owned Õ57 Oldsmobile before the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Unfortunately, Myers would lose his life...

Johnny Beauchamp is best known as the flagged winner of the first Daytona 500 before the official results declared Lee Petty victorious in the photo...

Johnny Beauchamp

Driver Richard Petty celebrates with his father Lee Petty in Victory Lane after winning the Daytona 500 race on February 17, 1974 at the Daytona...

Richard Petty wins 1974 Daytona 500

Lee Petty with his son, Richard.

Lee and Richard Petty

Daytona 500: Portait of Cale Yarborough , LeeRoy Yarbrough , Mario Andretti , Richard Petty , and David Pearson before race at Daytona International...

Cale Yarborough, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Mario Andretti, Richard Petty, and David Pearson, 1968 Daytona 500

Lee Petty was NASCAR Cup Series champion in 1954, his first of three national titles. He was also the first driver to achieve three such titles, and...

Lee Petty poses with his car and trophy after winning the race at the Palm Beach Speedway in his Dodge, just as he did a year earlier when he won...

In 1958, Lee Petty became the first driver to win two NASCAR championships in two different divisions in the same year. Petty took the Cup Series and...

Early 1950's: Lakewood Speedway, located on Atlanta's south side, was a one mile dirt horse track that hosted auto racing as early as the 1930's. On...

Lakewood Speedway

The first Daytona 500 ended in a dead-heat finish between Johnny Beauchamp's 1958 Ford Thunderbird and Lee Petty's 1959 Oldsmobile. Close examination...

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series

Lee Petty, patriarch of the famous Petty racing dynasty, relaxes on his 1959 Oldsmobile. He became winner of the first Daytona 500.

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series

S Jerry Punch and Lee Corso interview former NASCAR driver Richard Petty during College Gameday prior to the game between the Virginia Tech Hokies...

Virginia Tech v Tennessee

July 4, 1977: Grand Marshall Lee Petty poses with a trio of female drivers who were entered in the Firecracker 400 NASCAR Cup race at Daytona...

Female Racing Trio - NASCAR 1977 Daytona Firecracker 400

Lee Petty of Randleman, NC, did not start racing cars until he was 35 years old, and ran in the first NASCAR Cup race held at the Charlotte Speedway...

Lee Petty - NASCAR Champion

February 24, 1961: Buzz McCann starts to spin his 1961 Ford on lap one of the second 100-mile qualifying race for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup race at...

NASCAR Daytona 1961 - 2nd Daytona 500 Qualifier Action

July 3, 1960: Lee Petty drove his 1960 Plymouth nicknamed “Thumper III” to a third place finish in the fourth qualifying race for the Firecracker 250...

NASCAR Daytona Firecracker 250 1960 - Lee Petty

June 8, 1958: Early action during the Old Dominion 500 NASCAR Convertible Division race at Martinsville Speedway has Lee Petty leading Buck Baker and...

Martinsville NASCAR - 1958 Old Dominion 500 Action

October 16, 1949: The start of the first NASCAR Cup race to be held at North Wilkesboro Speedway. The race was called the “Wilkes 200,” and Ken...

First N. Wilkesboro NASCAR Cup Race 1949

Herb Thomas of Olivia, NC, ran his Hudson Hornet in 34 of the 37 scheduled NASCAR Cup races during the season, posting 12 wins and 27 top 10...

Herb Thomas - NASCAR 1954

February 16, 1957: Lewis “Possum” Jones battles with Lee Petty during the NASCAR Convertible Series race on the Daytona Beach-Road Course. Jones...

Daytona Beach Convertible Race - 1957

May 15, 1955: A pair of 1955 Chevrolets lead the way during the NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway. Gordon Smith is driving the No. 19, while...

NASCAR Martinsville 1955

October 18, 1970: Richard Petty leads LeeRoy Yarbrough on his way to winning the Old Dominion 500 NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway.

Petty/Yarbrough - NASCAR Martinsville 1970

September 25, 1960: The Plymouths of Lee Petty and Richard Petty sit up against the wall after tangling with Bobby Johns’ Ford Thunderbird during the...

Pettys Crash - NASCAR Martinsville 1960

Richard Petty, all of 18 years old, stands next to his father Lee Petty’s car at a NASCAR Cup race. Richard Petty’s own NASCAR Cup career would not...

Lee Petty holds his trophy after driving his 1957 Oldsmobile to a win in the Gwyn Staley 160 NASCAR Cup race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

Maurice Petty, representing 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame member Lee Petty, poses during the Hall of Honor unveiling at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 24,...

NASCAR Hall of Fame - Hall of Honor Unveiling

Buddy Shuman , Gene Darragh and Lee Petty lead a pack of cars down the front straight while others make pit stops during the Southern 500 NASCAR Cup...

1951 Southern 500

Action during the Rebel 400 NASCAR Cup race at Darlington Raceway. LeeRoy Yarbrough , Richard Petty and Bobby Allison take the high line to put a lap...

Lee Petty was the patriarch of the Petty racing family and the head of Petty Enterprises for many years. As a driver, Petty won 54 NASCAR Cup races...

Cars line up for the first race of the 1968 NASCAR Cup season at Middle Georgia Raceway. LeeRoy Yarbrough starts from the pole. Bobby Allison,...

LeeRoy Yarbrough

Richard Petty on pit road at Daytona International Speedway in his NASCAR Cup Plymouth. Petty went on to break his father LeeÕs record for most...

Lee Petty in an Oldsmobile leads Bob WelbornÕs Chevrolet and Larry FrankÕs Õ56 Chevrolet during a NASCAR Convertible Series race at Bowman-Gray...

Lee Petty and Bob Welborn

Lee Petty demonstrates how the aircraft seat belts were adjusted in his NASCAR Cup racer.

Lee Petty of Randleman, NC, in an aircraft helmet headshot.

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