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BOBBY ALLISON 1937-2024

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Dodge in the spring Darlington event in 1967.

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Bobby Allison at Pocono in August 1975.

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1983, the year Allison won the NASCAR championship.

Born Robert Arthur Allison in Miami on December 12, 1937, Bobby Allison became one of the most successful and well-liked racers in NASCAR. Leaving Florida for Hueytown, Alabama, in the Fifties, he comprised the so-called ‘Alabama Gang’, along with

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