Petty Enterprises
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| Owner(s) |
Lee Petty Richard Petty Kyle Petty Boston Ventures |
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| Base | Randleman, North Carolina |
| Series |
Sprint Cup Series Xfinity Series Camping World Truck Series |
| Car numbers | 04, 1, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 62 |
| Race drivers |
Lee Petty Richard Petty Kyle Petty Adam Petty Buddy Baker Pete Hamilton Wally Dallenbach, Jr John Andretti Bobby Labonte Terry Labonte Chad McCumbee Carlos Contreras Bobby Hamilton Rick Wilson Jeff Green |
| Sponsors | STP, General Mills, Hot Wheels, Sprint, Georgia Pacific, Wells Fargo, Marathon, Coca Cola, Tire Kingdom, Schwans |
| Manufacturer | Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac, Chevrolet |
| Opened | 1949 |
| Closed | 2008 |
| Career | |
| Drivers' Championships | 10 (1954, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979) |
| Race victories | 270 Sprint Cup: 268 Truck Series: 2 |
Petty Enterprises (formerly Lee Petty Engineering) was a NASCAR racing team based in Randleman, North Carolina, USA. It was founded by Lee Petty with his two sons Richard Petty and Maurice Petty. The team was later owned by Richard Petty, his son Kyle Petty and Boston Ventures. At the time of its folding the team operated the No. 43 and No. 45 Dodge Chargers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Petty Enterprises ran from 1949 until 2008. The team closed shop in January 2009 and merged with Gillett Evernham Motorsports after sponsorship could not be found for any of the cars in the Petty stable; the merged team took the name Richard Petty Motorsports, adopting a logo similar to that of Petty Enterprises' logo.
The facilities in Randleman that was vacated by the race team is still owned by the Petty family and is now (since 2010) a small business called The Petty Garage and specializes in custom cars, vintage restorations, and other specialty automotive work. The last few years has seen it host Mopar (Chrysler Co. vehcles) appreciation meets.
Founded as Lee Petty Engineering, Three of those championships came with Lee Petty driving the No. 42, while accumulating 54 wins, The team's first win came that year in Lee's 5th start at Heidelberg Raceway, with Petty and the team finishing 2nd in points that season. Petty won one race in each of the years 1950 and 1951, before collecting three victories in 1952. 1953 saw the team expand to a multi-car team for the first time, fielding a Plymouth for Jimmie Lewallen at Palm Beach Speedway, who finished 2nd to Petty. Lee grabbed five wins that season and finished second in points before winning the championship in 1954. He followed that with six wins the next season and two more the following year, making him one of the most dominating drivers in the series at that time. In 1957, Petty won 4 races as the team began running additional teams. Tiny Lund, Bill Mutz, and Ralph Earnhardt all ran races with the team, before Bobby Myers was killed in an accident at Darlington Raceway.
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