His last championship came in 1979. But Richard Petty's big sunglasses, cowboy hat and that No. 43 still loom large over stock-car racing. Richard Petty won seven Wiston Cup championships.
However, when George Gillett Jr. lost money from selling Liverpool FC in 2010, the team went from four cars to two, lost top driver Kasey Kahne, and laid off over 75 workers. Richard Petty had no ...
Richard Petty arrived in style at the Charlotte ... Perhaps the most iconic NASCAR car to sport the Petty Blue color and No. 43 was the Plymouth Superbird from the early 70s.