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  1.   VoteGillilandNotDanica2014 posted:
  07.31.2013 - 11:01 am
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Joe Mihalic's last start.


  2.   zuel660 posted:
  01.30.2015 - 6:34 pm
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Final Nascar race for an AMC/Matador?


  3.   saltsburgtrojanfan posted:
  03.22.2015 - 7:42 pm
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Caution 1: Lap 51-53


  4.   The Great Dave posted:
  03.14.2016 - 1:27 pm
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Sponsor Update

#63 Miron Enterprises / IKO Realtors


  5.   The Great Dave posted:
  03.14.2016 - 2:14 pm
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Sponsor Update

#1 Grog Pond / Visit Bahamas


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.31.2018 - 2:35 pm
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This indeed was the last NASCAR Cup race to feature any AMC automobiles.
Jocko Maggiacomo starts and finishes 37th in his blue-and-yellow #63 AMC
Matador bringing the curtain down on the company's NASCAR involvement.
Maggiacomo was a suprisingly fitting driver to be at wheel of the last
NASCAR start for an American Motors Corporation product, he won a
Trans-Am title at the wheel of an AMC Javelin in 1976. The street-going
version of the Matador was in the process of being discontinued when
this race was run.

AMC was a company in trouble in the late 1970s, the earlier end of its
factory NASCAR program with Roger Penske was nothing compared to its
financial woes as sales of the new Pacer started to drop off just as
everything else that they had that wasn't a Jeep wasn't selling well. In
early 1978 the company had just teamed up with French automaker Renault
in an effort to turn their fortunes around but despite developing some
very innovative cars in the coming years, such as the all-wheel Eagle
which in many ways was a crossover decades before they became popular,
the company's fortunes never quite turned around. AMC sold out to
Chrysler in 1987 with the Big 3 firm buying them out largely for the
Jeep line.


  7.   ThomasNester posted:
  01.27.2020 - 12:02 am
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200th consecutive start for Petty and Parsons


  8.   rateus posted:
  02.13.2021 - 7:55 pm
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Elmo Langley qualified for Joe Booher.


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