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Bobby Allison was a founding member of NASCAR’s fabled “Alabama Gang” and winner 84 races at NASCAR’s highest level and a championship in 1983. Allison’s first Daytona 500 start was in 1961. It would take him 18 years to win his first in 1978, but by then, when most driver careers decline, Allison was in his prime. He would go on to win two more Daytona 500s past the age of 40 and his 1988 victory is the only one posted by a driver over the age of 50. Allison’s 1988 win over his son Davey also delivered the only father-son finish in the history of the Daytona 500.