WENDELL SCOTT

Vintage set of five Stock Car Replicas 1/64 -- featuring WENDELL SCOTT, the man who broke the color barrier in stock car racing - and he did so in 1963 when he became the first (and still the only) black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. Facing racial prejudice among not only some of the NASCAR fans, but also fellow drivers and NASCAR officials, Scott eventually won most of his critics over with his mild manners, his eagerness to help others, and his leave-em-in-the-dust racing skills.
 -- Three large sheets of 30 different uncut prototype cards (1991) of African American champion NASCAR driver, Wendell Scott -- along 2 sets of 30 vintage cards (extremely rare). Licensed by Sports Legends.
-- Copy of movie about Wendell Scott, "Greased Lightning" starring Richard Pryor.
   BACKGROUND: Scott, who died in 1990, was from Danville, Va., just inside the state line from North Carolina. It was an area rich in history for stock car racers, and also an area where it was not unheard of to run illegal whiskey from town to town in souped-up cars. Scott was a taxi driver who graduated to running moonshine and eventually to racing stock cars. For any of those jobs, one had to be a master mechanic and a pretty nifty driver. In 1959, at the age of 38, Scott won the Virginia State Sportsman championship. Two years later, Wendell Scott was able to field a car for the Grand National Series. In nearly 500 Grand National races, he was in the top 10 an amazing 147 times. Considering what Scott had to go through to compete in those Grand National races, it is even more amazing.