You don't need to be a NASCAR fan to recognize a Petty car. Going all the way back to the 1950s when Lee Petty raced in a ...

Family patriarch Lee Petty was the new company’s owner of record when Petty Enterprises was created in 1949. For most of the 50’s and into the 60s’, Lee Petty and son Richard Petty did the ...

The team is one of the oldest and best known racing outfits in stock car racing, or in any other type of racing for that matter. Lee Petty, winner of the very first Daytona 500 in 1959 ...

Richard Petty's initial victory was overturned after his father, Lee Petty, protested the win during Richard's second ...

Richard Lee Petty was born on July 2, 1937, in Randleman, N.C., the son of one of stock-car racing's early pioneers, Lee Petty. The elder Petty won three Grand National championships in the '50s ...

Richard Lee Petty was born on July 2, 1937, in Randleman, N.C., the son of one of stock-car racing's early pioneers, Lee Petty, who in the fifties would win three Grand National championships.

His ride rolled into turn three due to a broken part, as young Richard Petty looked on. Nonetheless, the thrill of NASCAR felt too lucrative to let go for Lee. He began sneaking into factory cars ...

Petty Enterprises was founded in 1949 by NASCAR legend Lee Petty with his two sons ... The organization competed in stock car racing from 1949 to 2008 until its merger with Gillett Evernham ...