But Richard Petty's big sunglasses, cowboy hat and that No. 43 still loom large over stock-car racing ... Petty went into drag racing, but instead of finding redemption, he found tragedy.
A career that has seen a lot of ups, but downs as well, including a 1965 incident where Richard Petty crashed his car, during a brief stint of his career he was drag racing, which led to the death ...
This might sound cliche sometimes, but in Richard Petty’s case ... glue that held everything together at the Petty house.