Car number 59  has started 241 races and has  3 wins, 4 poles, 39 top 5s, 81 top 10s, and 124 DNFs in the NASCAR Cup Series.

“Tiger” Tom Pistone has the most starts in #59 with 95 from 1959-1967. Tom won 2 races in 1959, the only Grand National (Cup) wins of his career. He did, however, also find victory lane twice in the now defunct NASCAR Convertible series.

Lloyd Moore started 45 of his 49 career races in #59 from 1949-1955 including his 1950 win at Winchester speedway.

Blackie Pitt drove #59 in 43 of his 81 career races from 1955-1958. Pitt was the recipient of the 1954 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award although he never received an official trophy.

In 2016, Michael McDowell started 2 races in the #59 for Levine Family Racing. McDowell was displaced from his typical #95 car for a few races in 2016 to allow young Ty Dillon a guaranteed starting position. For 2 of these races the Levine team fielded a second car for McDowell, including his second top-10 of the season, a 10th place finish at Homestead-Miami.

The complicated arrangement was a result of Richard Childress Racing’s alliance with the Levine Team, allowing  Ty Dillon, an RCR driver in the XFINITY Series, to get some seat time in a Cup Series ride. McDowell also benefited from the arrangement, as he was able to pilot the RCR #2 car to his first NASCAR win in the XFINITY Series race at Road America.

Other notable names in #59

• Andy Belmont, 9 starts

• Bill Rexford, 3 starts

• Donnie Allison, 3 starts

• Jim Hurtubise, 3 starts

• Richard Brickhouse, 3 starts

• Curtis Turner, 2 starts

• Bobby Gerhart, 2 starts

• Junior Johnson, 1 start

• Roy Mayne, 1 start

• Klauf Graf, 1 start

• Tiny Lund, 1 start

• Buck Baker, 1 start

• Ralph Earnhardt, 1 start

• Fireball Roberts, 1 start

• Wendell Scott, 1 start

• Carl Long, 1 start