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Happy Birthday to Benny Parsons.
Benny was born July 12, 1941 and lives in Ellerbe, North Carolina...former cab driver in his adopted hometown of Detroit, Parsons came to NASCAR after winning the '68 and '69 ARCA championships, which made him ineligible to run for NASCAR's '70 rookie of the year award....undeterred, he won the '73 Winston Cup title for owner L.G. DeWitt, overcoming a vicious crash in the season finale at Rockingham to beat Cale Yarborough by 67 points....Parsons won 20 poles and 21 races in his 526-race career that extended from 1964 to 1988....retired after the 1988 season to continue with his career in radio and television.
Benny was born July 12, 1941 and lives in Ellerbe, North Carolina...former cab driver in his adopted hometown of Detroit, Parsons came to NASCAR after winning the '68 and '69 ARCA championships, which made him ineligible to run for NASCAR's '70 rookie of the year award....undeterred, he won the '73 Winston Cup title for owner L.G. DeWitt, overcoming a vicious crash in the season finale at Rockingham to beat Cale Yarborough by 67 points....Parsons won 20 poles and 21 races in his 526-race career that extended from 1964 to 1988....retired after the 1988 season to continue with his career in radio and television.
