Car number 63 has started 146 races and has  0 wins, 1 pole, 2 top 5s, 15 top 10s, and 87 DNFs in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Jocko Maggiacomo Jr. started car #63 in 22 of his 23 career starts. Jocko, a driver from Poughkeepsie, New York, began his career as a sports car racer, and won the 1976 SCCA Trans Am Category 1 Championship. Starting in 1977, Jocko started racing in select Winston  Cup Series events- mostly in the northeast.

Jocko was Unable to avoid a spinning Bobby Allison in the 1988 Miller High Life 500 at Pocono. The t-bone crash with Maggiacomo ended Allison’s driving career. According to Maggiacomo’s autobiography, he chose to end his career too out of post-trauma stress disorder and guilt of t-boning Allison. Watkins Glen 1988 would be Jocko’s final career start.

R.L. Combs started #63 in a handful of events each year from 1957-1959. 20 of his 21 career starts came in #63.

From 1966-1967 Larry Manning competed in a total of 14 races in #63.

Other notable names in #63

  • Jimmy Hensley, 6 starts

  • Curtis Crider, 5 starts

  • Earl Brooks, 1 start

  • Randy LaJoie, 1 start

  • Glen Wood, 1 start

  • Norm Benning, 1 start

  • Dick Trickle, 1 start

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