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Posted on
August 16, 2009 by
Dean Hybl
David Pearson
The Sports Then and Now Vintage Athlete of the Week was the hottest racer in NASCAR 40 years ago.
Between 1966 and 1969, David Pearson won three Grand National (now Sprint Cup) Championships and 44 total races.
Interestingly, those three seasons were the last during a 27-year career that spanned from 1960 through 1986 in which Pearson, known as the “Silver Fox” completed a full NASCAR schedule.