In NASCAR's early years, the cars were so " stock " that it was commonplace for the drivers to drive themselves to the competitions in the car that they were going to run in the race.

Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized automobiles, such as those designed for stock car racing, though NASCAR's 2011 season was the last one with carbureted engines ; electronic fuel injection is used beginning with the 2012 race season.

It was NASCAR's fourth series ( after the Modified and Roadster series in 1948 and Strictly Stock in 1949 ).

Grand National was dropped from the series ' title in 2003 as part of NASCAR's brand identity ( the Grand National name was now used for the Busch East and Winston West series as part of a nationwide standardization of rules for NASCAR's regional racing ).

* Foyt was named to NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers list in 1998.

Held in September its first four years ( in order to distance it from the " 500 " and NASCAR's Brickyard 400 ), the USGP at Indianapolis was moved to an early summer date in 2004.

He is a 2-time winner of NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award, ( 1989, 1990 ), was " American Driver of the Year ", ( 1979, 1981, 1982 ), and was " NASCAR's Driver of the Decade ", ( 1980s ).

Waltrip was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers ( 1998 ), and was awarded the Bill France " Award of Excellence ", in 2000.

Waltrip started in NASCAR Winston Cup, NASCAR's top racing series at age 25, on May 7, 1972, at the 1972 Winston 500, at Talladega, Alabama, the series ' fastest and longest track, with a used Mercury Cyclone which was originally the 1967 Ford driven by Mario Andretti to victory in the 1967 Daytona 500.

( The Penske Championship Racing name was adopted to evade NASCAR's ban on wireless telephone advertising ; Cellco's team is marketed as Verizon Championship Racing.

On qualifying day, Davey signalled that he was in Winston Cup to stay when he qualified an unmarked, but Texaco-Havoline painted # 28 Thunderbird second for the 1987 Daytona 500, becoming the first rookie ever to start on the front row for NASCAR's most prestigious event.

Robert Arthur " Bobby " Allison ( born December 3, 1937 ) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers.

He later won back-to-back World 600s ( NASCAR's longest race, now the Coca-Cola 600 ) and back-to-back Busch Clash ( now Bud Shootout ) victories in 1983 and ' 84, including his first in which he did not win a single pole from the previous season, but was selected as a wild card entry.

During the victory lane interview, Stewart was penalized 25 points and fined $ 25, 000 for violating NASCAR's policy on the use of obscene language during interviews during the race.

( It should be noted that, while reducing the Truck Series attempts at a green-white-checkered finish to one, the rule change was part of NASCAR's implementation of the rule to the NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series due to complaints regarding NASCAR's policy at the time regarding late race cautions ; the policy stated that a red flag would be thrown during a late race caution to attempt to ensure the race would finish under green but if a caution occurred after the window for the red flag, the race would end under caution regardless of where the incident occurred or how severe it was.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

The Western European Union ( WEU ; French: Union de l ' Europe occidentale, UEO ) was an international organisation tasked with implementing the Modified Treaty of Brussels ( 1954 ), an amended version of the original 1948 Treaty of Brussels.

CTS machines were called 4A ( Advanced ) if the translator was included in the original installation, and 4M ( Modified ) if it was added later.

There was even enough interest in Group C to sustain a C2 championship for a few years ; at ' club ' level Modified Sports Car (" ModSports ") and Production Sports Car (" ProdSports ") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a " Special GT " series that was essentially Formula Libre for sports or saloon cars.

Digital Equipment Corporation defined their own DECconnect connection system which was based on the Modified Modular Jack ( MMJ ) connector.

Seminole Speedway was located in Casselberry, operating between 1945 and 1954, and hosting stock car, Modified, and motorcycle racing.

Indeed, gravitational lensing by the Bullet Cluster was reported to provide the best current evidence for the nature of dark matter and to provide " evidence against some of the more popular versions of Modified Newtonian Dynamics ( MOND )" as applied to large galactic clusters.

It was also recommended by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) after they withdrew their own standard, ANSI Z39. 11-1972 American National Standard System for the Romanization of Japanese ( Modified Hepburn ), in 1994.

Modified by Menken and Rice to work in the stage production, " Human Again " was later added to the film itself in a new scene produced for its 2002 IMAX reissue.

Daryl's " Modified Pythagorean Theorem " was first published in STATS Basketball Scoreboard, 1993-94.

This was made possible as the SuperDrive now utilitized the same MFM ( Modified Frequency Modulation ) encoding scheme used by the IBM PC, yet still retained backward compatibility with Apple's variable-speed zoned CAV scheme and Group Code Recording encoding format, so it could continue to read Macintosh MFS, HFS and Apple II ProDOS formats on 400 / 800K disks.

The new 351M ( Modified ) joined the line-up, although the 351W continued to be used alongside when the 351-2V was specified.

The hard disk, which used a Modified Frequency Modulation ( MFM ) interface, was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412 with which Seagate secured a contract as a major OEM supplier for the IBM XT, IBM's first personal computer to contain a hard disk.

* Richie Evans ' NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour car number was 61 until his death in 1985

The state's Business Tax on employer's payrolls which was initiated in 1992 was increased under Gibbon's term and renamed the " Modified Business Tax ".

Due to the additional tax burden of the increased Modified Business Tax on Nevada's small businesses during a downward business cycle, this tax was readjusted to a lesser rate by the 2011 Nevada legislative session during the leadership of Governor Brian Sandoval.

Adam's death, along with 1998 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year Kenny Irwin, Jr .' s at the same track ( on July 7, 2000 ) led NASCAR to mandate the use of a kill switch on the steering wheel and the adoption of the Whelen Modified Tour restrictor plate for the September Cup race ; the plate was abandoned after that race.

In 2001 it was withdrawn from the market and re-released under the Modified BSD License.

* was a Modified Black Swan class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up after 1959.

* was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1944 and broken up in 1956.