Cecil Gordon

Cecil Gordon
Cecil Gordon
NASCAR Cup Series career
	450 races run over 17 years
Best finish	3rd - 1971, 1973 (Winston Cup)
First race	1968 Pickens 200 (Greenville-Pickens Speedway)
Last race	1985 Miller High Life 400 (Richmond)

Cecil Gordon (born June 21, 1941 in Horse Shoe, North Carolina) was a NASCAR driver. He is not related to Sprint Cup driver Jeff Gordon although the two drivers drove in car number 24.

He began in the Grand National (now Sprint Cup) series in 1968 and raced until 1985.

NASCAR driving career

He drove for 17 years and drove in a total of 450 races. He never won and never got a pole, but got 25 top fives, 111 top tens. He finished third in points in 1971 and 1973. He completed 112,908 laps and only led 23 of them. By the end of his career, he had earned $940,000. His average finish for his entire career was 17.3. Racing Champions released a replica of 1969 Mercury Cyclone in 1992 and later in 1998 in honor of NASCAR's 50th anniversary.

NASCAR car owner

He started racing in Henley Gray and Bill Seifert cars. He generally raced in his own car beginning in 1970. He had a few other racers make an occasional start for him. He raced GM products (mostly Chevy's) until the end of 1982 when he crashed out his Buick Regal. He purchased a Chrysler Imperial at the beginning of 1983 from the defunct Negre Bros. Racing team and managed to qualify for eight races during that season, though he only finished five of them. His best finish was 15th that year in the Imperial. He also had Jim VanDiver drive the car in two races. At the end of that year he sold the Imperial to Buddy Arrington and drove a few races for other owners in 1984 and 1985.

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