"When I stop, my toes will be turned up."
APRIL 26, 1981: Morgan Shepherd in victory lane following the Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway.(Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images) |
“I bought myself a '37 Chevrolet – I paid twelve dollars and a half, two flying squirrels, a gray squirrel and a 20-gauge shotgun for it,” said Shepherd, who made his first NASCAR series start in 1970 at a dirt-track race in North Carolina. “There was my education to racing.”

He won from a seventh-place start in his #21 Citgo (Wood Brothers) Ford.
He bested some of NASCAR’s greats: Jeff Gordon (4th -1 Lap Down); Bill Elliott (9th - 2 Laps Down); Dale Earnhardt (11th - 3 Laps Down) on his way to a $70,350 purse.
"When I was in my 20s and started racing, I thought 40 was old.” Shepherd recalled “Here I am at 76, still dancing in my roller skates, still driving a race car at 200 mph. What a great opportunity to reach people."
"I'm not never stopping," the 76-year-old Shepherd said. "When I stop, my toes will be turned up."
*Drivers with over 1,000 Starts
- Richard Petty (1,185)
- Mark Martin (1,143)
- Joe Nemechek (1,139),
- Kevin Harvick (1,081),
- Michael Waltrip (1,072),
- Terry Labonte (1,017)
- Jeff Burton (1,005)
- Morgan Shepherd (1000)
Morgan Shephard being our favorite Morgan Shephard. https://t.co/2S0nTyY1Wp
— Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) April 7, 2018
In 1987, Morgan Shepherd claimed that some teams had illegal devices that could dump oil onto the cars behind them. Like James Bond pic.twitter.com/hR6VXaddGD
— nascarman (@nascarman_rr) April 7, 2018
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