Charlie Blanton

Charlie Blanton is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup Series race car driver who raced from 1973 to 1978.^[1]

Career

This driver participated in 634 laps of racing action - the equivalent of 814.3 miles (1,310.5 km).^[1] He would earn a total of $3,135 in his total racing career ($11,393.17 when adjusted for inflation) while starting and finishing in 27th place on average.^[1] One of his celebrity appearances in print was on the January 1970 issue of Popular Mechanics; where he would appear alongside Tiny Lund, Buck Baker, Randy Hutchison, Marty Robbins and Jim Vandiver.^[2]

One of Blanton's more notable non-Winston Cup Series performances was at the 1971 Florida Citrus 250; a NASCAR Grand American Series event where Blanton finished in fourth place against the winner James Hylton and the runner-up Wayne Andrews. The race took two hours and twenty nine minutes to finish.^[3] While never winning at the Winston Cup Series level, Blanton did exceptionally well on dirt tracks in the other series; he managed to finish in second to David Pearson at the 1972 Bold City 200 in Jacksonville, Florida.^[4]

Blanton was the winner of the 1973 Daytona ARCA 300 race. His primary car in the NASCAR Cup Series would be the #59 Chevrolet sponsored by Mr. Danny Queen.^[5]

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