1. Ray Fox's cars won fourteen NASCAR Grand National Series events and sixteen pole positions.
16 Facts About Ray Fox
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Ray Fox was the patriarch of NASCAR mechanics, with his son Raymond Lee Fox Jr and grandson Raymond Lee Fox III as NASCAR mechanics.
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Ray Fox was inducted into numerous halls of fame, including the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
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Ray Fox was first introduced to racing at the 2-mile board track at Rockingham Park in nearby Salem, New Hampshire.
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Ray Fox left the area in 1946 after serving in the United States Army.
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Ray Fox moved to Daytona Beach, Florida to work at various automobile repair shops before he went to work for Robert Fish's Fish Carburetor.
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Ray Fox drove Modified racecars in Florida and southern Georgia against drivers like Fireball Roberts and Marshall Teague.
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Ray Fox built Fireball Roberts' engine for the 1955 race on the Daytona Beach Road Course.
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Ray Fox started building the engine at 8:00 pm the night before the race and got done at 4:00 am.
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Drivers to race in Ray Fox's car include Buck Baker, Buddy Baker, Darel Dieringer, Junior Johnson, Fred Lorenzen, Fireball Roberts, Cale Yarborough, and LeeRoy Yarbrough.
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Ray Fox set the record on the second lap and he was increasing speed on the third lap when the car began smoking.
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Ray Fox was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Ray Fox is a member of the Jacksonville Raceway Hall of Fame, National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame, the Oceanside Rotary Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Western Auto Mechanics Hall of Fame.
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Ray Fox was married to Mrs Patti Ray Fox; she helped him through his NASCAR career.
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Ray Fox often said "I miss her so much, she was the best thing that happened to me".
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Ray Fox died on June 15,2014, of pneumonia at Daytona Beach, Florida, aged 98.