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Ryan McGee's Blog: End of an era

By Ryan McGee

Monday, January 12, 2009

Petty Enterprises is gone. Like totally gone. Like joined-the-T-Rex-Edsel-and-D.B.-Cooper-in-the-ether gone. So why aren't people making a bigger deal out of this? Petty Enterprises is the New York Yankees of NASCAR. They are the all-time leader in wins, championships, laps led and pretty much everything else. Like the Yanks, the Petty Blue rides of Lee and Richard were so good that they received the praise of thousands of fans and drew the ire of jealous competitors, who claimed that they ...

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