Cale Yarborough ran his final season in 1988 in an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, entering 10 races and posting two ninth-place finishes. He retired at the end of the year. There is no information on how much land Cale Yarborough owned.
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Cale Yarborough’s 83 wins tie him with Jimmie Johnson for sixth on the all-time NASCAR Cup Series winner’s list behind Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip.

In 1962, Cale Yarborough ran eight races for Buesink, Don Harrison, and Wildcat Williams. Cale Yarborough competed in 18 races in the 1981 season in the No. 27 Valvoline-sponsored Buick for M.C. Anderson, winning his fourth Firecracker 400 and his fifth Coca-Cola 500 at Atlanta.
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After retiring, Cale Yarborough owned Cale Yarborough Motorsports and several successful agricultural businesses as well as being a rancher and farmer himself on his ranch at his home in Florence, South Carolina.
Cale Yarborough won two races in 1967 at the Atlanta 500 and the Firecracker 400 for the Wood Brothers. Yarborough competed in 16 races in 1982. Yarborough died at the McLeod Hospice House in Florence, South Carolina on December 31, 2023. He was 84.


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