NASCAR 75: No. 22 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
NASCAR 75: One of a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.After helping to persuade Walter P. Chrysler to build a powerful car featuring a hemi engine, Carl Kiekhaefer first arrived on the sands of Daytona with a C-300.to drive, the new car owner won on the Beach & Road Course race in his first attempt—despite the car’s automatic transmission.
Regarded as a rich Yankee, car owner Carl Kiekhaefer was hardly welcomed with open arms in a NASCAR series predominated by Southerners during the two seasons he competed in 1955 and 1956., who kept a photo of Kiekhaefer framed by a toilet seat on the wall of his garage. Fans sometimes threw Coca-Cola bottles at his cars, recalled Madeline Knight, whose husband Alf was a race promoter.
His cars won the Grand National championships in each of the two years he competed and an amazing 52 races, including one streak of 16 straight. Then he left as abruptly as he had arrived.
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