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And his Petty blue and STP red Dodge Charger was the most identifiable ... everyone else was going faster during 1978. Before the start of the season, NASCAR approved the use of the Chevrolet ...

The 1975 Dodge Charger SE wasn’t going to be a good ... had been downsized for 1978 and NASCAR looked an awful lot like a used car race during those years. Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 ...