John Bishop (L) with Bill France Sr. at Daytona International Raceway. Photos courtesy IMSA. By the time John Bishop resigned as executive director of the Sports Car Club of America in 1969, he’d ama...
Photos via Ten-X Commercial. Somehow, despite the constant churn of Florida real estate, the decades-long dilapidation, and the drug-use problem that plagued the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fl...
Red Vogt, who suggested the NASCAR name. Photo courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. By no means did stock car racing start with NASCAR. Rather, a patchwork of stock car racing organizations blanketed the co...
Jim France. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. In 1948, William H.G. “Big Bill” France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), both to grow the sp...