Cale Yarborough drove a variety of cars throughout his career, including the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II, the Ford Torino, and the Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
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Cale Yarborough’s car number varied as well, but he is most associated with the number 11, which he drove for Junior Johnson in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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.
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Cale Yarborough was a three-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year Award (1977, 1978, 1979). Yarborough won a career-high and modern-era record 14 poles in 1980.
In 1962, Cale Yarborough ran eight races for Buesink, Don Harrison, and Wildcat Williams, earning his first top ten at the Daytona 500 Qualifying Race when he finished tenth.
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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