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Pay your respects to Petty Enterprises

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 15, 2009

LEVEL CROSS, N.C. -- Petty Enterprises is better off now, past its suffering of the past few dismal decades. It is in a better place -- the memories of those who knew it in all its glory, unequaled in NASCAR to this day, with 268 wins and 10 championships. Petty Enterprises ceased to exist last week when, no longer financially viable, it was merged with Gillett Evernham Motorsports. But all of that was aftermath that occurred 70 miles away from here in Mooresville, N.C., where Petty Enterpr ...

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