|| *Comments on the 1987 Allen Crowe 100:* View the most recent comment <#18> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. 23andJoe posted: 04.29.2014 - 9:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Margin of Victory: Two car lengths Pole speed: 102.866mph Ken Schrader was in the #26 and started 10th Jim Jeffrey was in the #38 Gary Hawes was in the #95 #02 was a Buick #03 was a Ford #10 was a Chevrolet #37 was a Chevrolet #38 was a Ford #95 was a Pontiac #02 owner: Jack Wallace #03 owner: Tony Schwengel #27 owner: Jerry Gentile #38 owner: Keith Simmons #60 owner: Al Bigelow #99 owner: Mike Bettenhausen 2. 23andJoe posted: 05.01.2014 - 5:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Oops, made a typo in the above: #26 owner, Jerry Gentile Also: #27 owner, Ken Smith 3. Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted: 05.02.2018 - 8:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) 39 laps were run under caution. 4. rm posted: 05.23.2018 - 10:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) There were 10 cautions for 39 laps Keselowski's winnings: $5,300 Attendance: 9,000 Mike Fry started 39th, driving a Buick Fry was in contention late in the race when he was spun out by Don Marmor in turn 3 following a restart. Fry was headed towards the wall and would have escaped with minor damage if Grant Adcox hadn't squeezed between Fry's rear end and the barrier. Instead, Adcox tagged Fry and Fry flipped twice, bringing out a red flag. Bob Keselowski broke something in the motor on the ensuing restart but held on during the last few laps to win his first ever dirt race, a moment he called one of the biggest victories in his career at that point. Source :72603647 5. Gary Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.18.2018 - 11:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Updates #11 Jerry Churchill Churchill Transport / Hissong Oldsmobile #20 Ed Hage Owosso Speedway / A-Jax's Action Auto Olds #99 Gary Bettenhausen J.W. Hunt / Guiffre Buick Buick DNQ #14 Morris Coffman C&H Transit Chevy (Sally Coffman) 6. MSportRev posted: 09.26.2019 - 4:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Terry Pearson started 20th Steve Drake started 27th Eric Smith started 38th Rick O'Brien started 6th Jerry Huffman started 22nd Ken Rowley started 24th Randy Huffman started 17th 7. rm posted: 08.24.2020 - 9:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Starting lineup & missing info: 2. M. Smith 3. Pflum 4. Strait 5. Raymond 7. Venturini 8. Roper 9. Weltmeyer 11. Bettenhausen 12. Brevak 13. Bigelow 14. Hage 15. Marmor 16. Stott 18. Jerry Churchill 19. Adcox 21. Helland 23. Taylor 25. Cheshire 26. Dotter 28. Jacks 29. J. Hall 30. Schacht 31. Prior 32. Randall 33. J. Wallace 34. Hawes 35. Jeffrey 36. Tim Porter 37. Van Vyve 40. Ron Cox (#08 Cox Racing Mercury, owner - Ron Cox) 41. Schwengel 42. Sentman (#14 C&H Transit Chevrolet, owner - Sally Coffman) 43. Buzinec (#28 J&D Auto Oldsmobile) 45. Satterfield (Satterfield Racing Buick) 46./46. Jim Elliott, #44 Tri-Star Car Care Buick, laps - 0, status - DNS Was not expecting to see a Mercury in this one, not in 1987, unfortunately Cox crashed it right off the go here. Lap leaders: Keselowski 1-26, Venturini 27-35, Roper 36, Adcox 37-47, Jacks 48-80, Keselowski 81-100 Laps led: Roper 1, Venturini 9, Adcox 11, Jacks 33 There were 5 lead changes among 5 drivers Helland and Jacks look like they had their status flipped the opposite of how the results sheet has it. 8. RaceFanX posted: 08.27.2020 - 4:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I wonder what model Mercury Cox ran? The Cougar seems most likely since it was a badge engineered version of the more common Ford T-Bird. With Mercury all but extinct in stock car racing at this time outside some short track ranks that must have been a wild entry. Cox repaired the Mercury and attempted a few more races with it later in the season but failed to qualify for any of them. Mercury still had a little racing blood left in it at the time, after Merkur died out Ford took on IMSA road racing with a factory Cougar GTO racing program briefly before switching the attention there to the Ford Mustang. ARCA teams were creative with their car choices. Take a look at all the Chevrolet Berettas, Dodge Avengers, and Chrysler LeBarons we saw hit the track in ARCA during the following years when they didn't take in NASCAR. 9. ScottB posted: 08.27.2020 - 5:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I wonder if that was the Cougar built in 1993 by the Cale Yarborough owned team, that was meant for Cup but never got beyond a brief test session. It wasn't unusual for ARCA teams of that era to buy up decommissioned Cup cars as rollers, drop a new engine in, and go racing. If they built a Mercury up from from scratch, it seems like a lot of extra work for an ARCA team to put themselves through. Either way, I salute them for trying something different. 10. rm posted: 08.27.2020 - 6:35 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I think there's quite a bit of difference between your Raymonds, your Keselowskis, your Blackstocks running those odd models as a competitive strategy ploy (okay, maybe not so much in Blackstock's case) and Cox running a Mercury here. The prerequisites to run an ARCA dirt race at this time was, more or less, anything goes as long as it's a stock car with four wheels...based on the DNSs of this era, a working motor may or may not have even been on that checklist. As Cox was a guy who operated on a small budget throughout his career, I'm guessing this was an old, old castoff that still rolled just enough for him to take the track in it - at which point he promptly crashed, apparently. I don't know when Mercury exited the Cup ranks exactly, that was all before my time here, but my hunch is that the car originated from that period and was written off by a small or independent team at that before Cox got his hands on it. 11. possum posted: 08.27.2020 - 7:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @9 - you might want to double check your dates, there. Cox ran his Mercury some 6 years before Yarborough bought his. To RaceFanX's question, there's a fairly good chance it was a Ford Thunderbird with a Mercury decal. Back in the 80's ARCA wasn't super strict about things like that, and the only difference between the two was the rear window. @10 - Ultimate Racing History seems to think it was an '85 model. I beleive Mercury left NASCAR racing after 1980. 12. ScottB posted: 08.28.2020 - 2:43 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Oops, I somehow got it in my head that Cox's race was in 1997 not 1987. So, unless he also had a Delorean in his garage... Nope. 13. RaceFanX posted: 08.28.2020 - 10:42 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) @12 I know it's unrelated but no I've got a funny visual of a DeLorean race car in my head. Not sure if NASCAR or ARCA would have allowed it if someone suggested it, mid-engine layout aside that was an American company but the cars were built in Northern Ireland. Near as I can tell no one ever raced one in a major series, the road cars were too heavy with those stainless steel bodies and too underpowered with that little Renault-Volvo V6 engine to compete in anything, although there have been a few in casual, modern "Gumball Rally" type regularity rallies. 14. RaceFanX posted: 08.28.2020 - 11:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @10 Mercury left NASCAR after 1980 so you're theory of it likely being a T-Bird badged unusually seems likely; NASCAR surplus ones probably weren't still legal even in ARCA at this time. While the new downsized cars for 1981 included both the Cougar XR-7 and Monarch as the available Mercury models to my knowledge no one built either one for NASCAR and the FoMoCo faithful all went with the Ford Thunderbird instead for 1981 on out (the Monarch was certainly too unaerodynamic to be competitive) with Ford making sure they stuck with them exclusively once factory support started coming back into the game. Maybe an ARCA team tried one though, Ford was also allowed the Granada as an option in 1981 and while no NASCAR teams bit on it Ken Schrader famously gave it a go with one in ARCA. 15. Dan posted: 08.28.2020 - 11:28 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) URH says it was an '85 Grand Marquis, so there's your answer. 16. ScottB posted: 08.28.2020 - 11:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wow... Never would have expected that. 17. GGDC posted: 08.28.2020 - 12:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'd put thought into it being a rebadged Ford Granada. There's been cases of older cars being rebadged into newer cars and it wouldn't surprise me iff that was the case here. 18. Jeff posted: 08.28.2020 - 1:04 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) @7 These results are likely the ones I've copied from NSSN, when I passed them on to R-R. I was working on my own ARCA results site for awhile but haven't done so in about 5 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: