Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 champion ... Jones would achieve stardom in USAC by winning its Midwest Sprint Car title in 1960, then got the chance to compete in the Indianapolis ...

Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones ... and in 1961 he earned USAC's first national sprint-car championship. Jones leads Roger Penske in Yankee 300 USAC stock-car race at Indy Raceway Park, April ...

Parnelli Jones raced in the Indianapolis 500 just seven times, but led 492 laps along the way, coming close to victory ...

Parnelli Jones and the STP Turbine in 1967 — The ... He had three Daytona 500 Starts (1960, 1963 & 1964), 25 USAC National Sprint Car Feature Wins, 25 USAC National Midget Feature Wins, 18 ...

Parnelli Jones, who had been the oldest living Indianapolis ... which included NASCAR (four Cup Series victories), USAC sprint cars and midgets. Still, Jones was most well known for his exploits ...

Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, Jones got his start racing in California under the nickname "Parnelli" to hide his identity and age. He won his first major sprint car title ten years later ...

He also had four Cup Series victories in NASCAR as well as wins in USAC sprint cars and midgets. Parnelli Jones dives out of his car after it caught fire in the pits during the Indianapolis 500 ...

Parnelli Jones, a hard-bitten ... He won in midget cars and sprint cars, Indy cars and stock cars, sports cars and, after deciding that the demands of track racing were getting in the way of ...

"Parnelli Jones was a total icon ... He'd also go on to win, among other things, 25 USA National Sprint Car features, 25 USAC National Midget Features, one USAC Midwest Sprint Car title, two ...