Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Perhaps the greatest driver never to win a NASCAR Winston Cup title, Roberts accumulated 32 wins, including the 1962 Daytona 500, in a career that spanned 15 seasons before his untimely death in 1964 from injuries incurred in an accident at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Throughout the 53-year history of NASCAR, the cars have been transformed from road-going, true "stock" cars into the sleek, technologically advanced machines that we see today.