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Benjamin Stewart Parsons (July 12, 1941 – January 16, 2007) was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion, and was a 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.
May 25, 2016 · Benny Parsons, a Wilkes County, North Carolina, native who called Detroit home after driving a taxi for a living during his years in the northern city, won the 1973 NASCAR premier series...
Jan 17, 2007 · Benny Parsons, a former NASCAR champion and Daytona 500 winner who gained an even wider following as a cheerful stock car racing broadcaster, died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer. He...
In 1973, Parsons won the NASCAR premier series championship, and two years later, he won the Daytona 500. The Detroit taxicab driver quickly became a successful NASCAR competitor, but through all of the success and fame, Benny continued to simply be his self.
Benny Parsons, a Wilkes County, N.C., native who called Detroit home, won the 1973 NASCAR premier series championship in one of the most dramatic fashions in series history. Inducted: 2017. Position: Driver / Broadcaster.
Jan 16, 2007 · Benny Parsons made a career of beating the odds, rising up from a childhood of poverty in the North Carolina foothills to a job as a Detroit cabbie, and eventually, becoming a NASCAR champion....
Jan 19, 2017 · Parsons was voted one of NASCAR’s 50 greatest drivers in 1998 and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005....
Jan 17, 2007 · Benny Parsons, a popular champion auto racer who became a home-spun analyst for Nascar’s nationally televised races, died yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. He was 65 and lived in Ellerbe, N.C.
That victory, plus the 20 others he scored at NASCAR's top level in a two-decade career, have earned 1973 Winston Cup Series champion Benny Parsons induction into the Motorsports Hall Of Fame of America.
Jan 19, 2017 · A full generation knows Benny Parsons best for his work behind the steering wheel, banging fenders and hoisting trophies competing alongside Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough and David Pearson...
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