|| *Comments on the 1962 Myers Brothers 200:* View the most recent comment <#16> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. RaceFanX posted: 12.02.2009 - 11:12 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Johnny Allen's lone Cup series win Apparently he crashed through the wall after winning this race, must have been racing real hard with Rex White for the win 2. AnonymousEFR posted: 04.20.2014 - 3:34 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) He went through the wall and rolled the car wildly, very wildly, apparently. 3. nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted: 01.08.2016 - 4:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Note: Johnny Allen won the race in a epic side by side finish with Rex White and crashed is '61 Pontiac (formerly driven by Junior Johnson) in the guardrail of the first turn. 4. Eric posted: 05.06.2018 - 3:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Johnny Allen did not flip over the wall in this race, he had in fact just tore the right side off his car in this race. 5. Yeet #PrayForWickens posted: 08.26.2018 - 10:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The only time anyone has won a Cup race under the #58 6. BOBO83329521 posted: 11.24.2019 - 7:51 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) A driver (Johnny Allen) 's lone win, a car number (#58) 's lone win, also a win for one of the top 5 least used car numbers in NASCAR history 7. JSPorts posted: 11.24.2019 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #58 is the least-used car number to ever win a race (134 starts.) It is the 4th-lowest starts total for any number 0-99 (including 00-09.) The next-lowest total for a number with a win is 141 starts (6th-lowest) by the #85, which won twice (both by Emanuel Zervakis in 1961, also his only two career wins.) The fewest starts by a car number is the #65, which has only 97 starts since the Cup Series' inception in 1949. That number has just one top-5 - a 4th-place finish by Chuck Meekins at Tucson in 1955. And it hasn't started a race in over 26 years, since Jerry O'Neil drove it to a 34th-place finish in the fall Charlotte race in 1993. 8. Spen posted: 11.25.2019 - 7:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) While I can't confirm it with this browser, I'd be willing to bet that the least-used number with a win would be the #299 that Norm Nelson got his lone win in. 9. Anonymous posted: 11.25.2019 - 9:38 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Unless somebody won a race using a number that was never used before or after that event, it looks likely that #299 would be the winner, having only been used in 2 races - that we know of, anyway. https://www.racing-reference.info/rquery?id=299&trk=t0&series=W&cn=1 10. Mile501 posted: 11.25.2019 - 11:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm guessing 3-digit (and other unusual) car numbers don't show up on the Stats by Car Number page? 11. Spen posted: 11.25.2019 - 4:27 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Back before 2007, the stats by number page listed every number, period. But after we moved from .com to .info, the page was shortened to its current look. I was working on start totals for those numbers in 2012, but that project petered out sometime in 1956. It's on the long list of 'get back to someday' projects. 12. Spen posted: 11.25.2019 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Doing some checking, apparently the #299 is only tied for the record. The #115 also won in only two appearances, and Parnelli followed up his win with a third the following year, so the #115 wins on a best finish tiebreaker. 13. possum posted: 11.25.2019 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @9 - it would be interesting to know the story behind that number, actually. In '55 and '56 Carl Kiekhaefer entered multiple cars, usually with some variation of the #300 (300, 300A, 300B, 300C, 301, 302, 308, 30, 00) (he also used a series of variations on the #500), all with Mercury Outboards sponsorship (Kiekhaefer being the owner of Mercury Outboards). At the same time, Pete DePaolo entered multiple cars using numbers near #300 (299, 297, 296), also with Mercury Outboards sponsorship (DePaolo usually used #22 and/or #98). So it would seem there was some connection between the two teams, altho since DePaolo ran Fords and Kiehaefer mostly ran Chryslers/Dodges, they weren't sharing cars. 14. BOBO83329521 posted: 11.25.2019 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @13 Kiekhaefer owned Norm Nelson's #299 for both starts according to the list given here 15. Spen posted: 11.26.2019 - 12:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Possum: Pretty sure it had more to do with the manufacturer than the sponsor. Chrysler was introducing its new 300 series, which in '56 was called the 300B. Dodge was running the Dodge D-500. So using numbers in that range seems sensible to ensure public knowledge of what model is winning. Except of course for the odd track like Darlington, which had rules against three-digit numbers. As for the #299, maybe Norm was subtly implying that is wasn't entirely a 300? For DePaulo's, I'm not 100% certain, but the 290's numbers might refer to the Ford's engine CI. 16. possum posted: 12.05.2019 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @14 - you're correct, I meant to type 298. @15 - you're also correct about Kiekhaefer's car numbers being based on the manufacturer's model number. The question in my mind is, with Kiekhaefer having multiple cars carrying his sponsorship, why did he also need to sponsor DePaolo's cars? Perhaps he was simply helping a friend? And did DePaolo chose those numbers to be in near sequence with Kiekhaefer's, or, as you suggest, for some other reason? There's a little story there, I think, that would be interesting to know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: