Dick
Hutcherson
November 30, 1931 -
November 6, 2005
Keokuk, Iowa
Former NASCAR Driver Dick Hutcherson Dies
November 9, 2005
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former NASCAR driver Dick Hutcherson, who won 14
races in 103 starts in the 1960s, has died at the age of 73.
Hutcherson died Sunday, when he suffered a fatal heart attack while
traveling from Florida to North Carolina. He died at the Providence
Hospital in Columbia, S.C.
He joined NASCAR in 1964 after racing late models in the Midwest for
almost a decade. He finished second in his second career start, then
joined the Charlotte-based Holman-Moody team, for which he ran 52 races
in 1965.
Later, he served as crew chief for David Pearson in championship seasons
of 1968 and 1969, then returned to Holman-Moody as general manager.
 In 1971, he and
Eddie Pagan formed Hutcherson-Pagan, building race cars
used by drivers such as Darrell Waltrip and A.J. Foyt.
Hutcherson-Pagan still supplies parts to race teams with a truck that
serves as a rolling warehouse at tracks.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda Daugherty Hutcherson; son, Richard
"Ricky" L. Hutcherson and wife, Heather, of Gainesville, Fla.; and
daughters, Sherry H. Dorothy of Huntersville, and Cindy H. Adams of
Keokuk, Iowa.
A funeral was scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Raymer Funeral Home.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Comers Rock Cemetery
in Elk Creek, Va.
Services pending for NASCAR racer and car builder
Dick Hutcherson, 73
By DAVID POOLE
The Charlotte Observer
Dick Hutcherson, who won 14 races in 103
starts in NASCAR's top series in the 1960s, died Sunday at age 73.
Hutcherson was traveling back to North Carolina from Florida when he
suffered a fatal heart attack near Columbia. Funeral arrangements have
still not been announced.
Hutcherson was born in Keokuk, Iowa, and raced late models in the
Midwest for nearly a decade before coming to NASCAR in 1964. He finished
second in his second career start, at Occoneechee Speedway, and the next
season joined the powerhouse Holman-Moody team that was based in
Charlotte.
He ran 52 races in 1965, winning for the first time at
Greenville-Pickens Speedway and adding eight more victories that year on
his way to a second-place finish in the points standings. He won three
more races for Holman-Moody the next year and two more in cars owned by
Bondy Long in 1967.
Hutcherson served as crew chief for David Pearson in Pearson's
championship seasons in 1968 and 1969, then became general manager for
Holman-Moody. In late 1971, he and Eddie Pagan formed Hutcherson-Pagan
and started building race cars used by such drivers as Darrell Waltrip
and A.J. Foyt.
Hutcherson-Pagan still supplies parts to race teams with a truck that
serves as a rolling warehouse at the track each weekend
 Ronnie Bucknum and NASCAR regular,
Dick Hutcherson,
teamed up to drive the #5 Holman Moody-entered Mk II. Bucknum had been
to Le Mans the year prior, driving the Scuderia Filipinetti GT40.
Hutcherson had plenty of miles under his belt since Ford had hired their
NASCAR drivers to help test the Mk IIs reliability. However, the
American had never raced in the rain... and the Le Mans 24 Hours is
rarely a dry event from start to finish.
Right from the start, Bucknum pushed the pace. The #5 car moved steadily
up the field from ninth to third in the first hour. He held his own
amongst the race leaders, moving up to and spending a good deal of time
right behind the leading #7 Mk II of Graham Hill. As the race
progressed, the American duo held their own. However, when the rain
began to fall on Hutcherson he immediately wanted out of the car! John
Holman urged him to just take it easy and 'just keep it on the road,
Hutch.' Running down the Mulsanne at over 200mph... in the rain... at
night... he wondered what he was doing, risking life and limb!
As night turned to day, the #5 Holman Moody entry was sitting pretty.
Twelve laps behind the
Miles/Hulme and
McLaren/Amon cars and nine laps ahead of the fourth place Porsche,
the team knew they only had to endure the final hours. And so they did,
flying in formation with their Ford teammates during the final laps to
round out a
1-2-3
photo finish!
Dick Hutcherson - Ford factory driver, multiple NASCAR race winner,
finished 2nd in NASCAR points in 1965, 3rd in 1966, 3rd place at Lemans
1966. Crew chief for David Pearson's Torino and Talladega championship
seasons of 1968 and 1969.
Holman Moody Ford GT 40 MKII
All-time
Average Finish (minimum 100 starts)
Top 10 Drivers Starts Avg. Finish
1. Lee Petty 427 7.602
2. Dick Hutcherson 103 8.670
3. Herb Thomas 228 8.934
4.
Rex White
233 8.983
5. Ned Jarrett 353 9.176
6. Tim Flock 189 9.677
7. Joe Weatherly 229 10.031
8. Dick Rathmann 129 10.791
9. David Pearson 574 11.033
10. Dale Earnhardt 676 11.061
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Darel Dieringer |
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G.C. Spencer |
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Marvin Panch |
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Bob Derrington |
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Cale Yarborough |
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A.J.
Foyt Story
Dick Hutcherson (former NASCAR stock car
driver; stock car chassis builder and supplier):
"A.J. had bought a Camaro to run USAC stock
cars and we were running at Texas World Speedway at College Station. He
had gotten mad about what some reporters had written about him in the
days before the race. Well he sat on the pole and was leading the race
when he pulled in with just a couple laps to go. I leaned in the car and
asked him what was wrong and he said, 'Overheating.' I looked at the
gauges which were normal and said, 'Why'd you pull out?' He looked at me
and said, 'I didn't want to talk to those reporters in Victory Circle.'
We had the race won and he parked the damn car!"http://www.foytracing.com/AJFoyt/aj_legends.html
 Speedway
- Movie
This Elvis movie was about stock car racing at the famed Charlotte
Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina, where location race scenes were
filmed. Participating in the movie were several champion professional
NASCAR racers including: Richard Petty, Buddy Baker, Cale Yarborough,
Tiny Lund, Dick Hutcherson, G. C. Spencer, and Roy Mayne who played
themselves. Sandy Reed, a professional race announcer, played the
announcer for "Speedway." Christopher West, who played Billie Jo, was
the reigning Queen of Laguna-Seca Sport Car Races at the time.
Among the many stunt drivers used for this film were: Bob Harris, whose
credits include "Bonnie and Clyde", "Bullitt", "Magnum Force" and "The
Gumball Rally." Courtney Brown, who worked on such films as "Thunderball,"
"Porky's" and "Ace Ventura- Pet Detective." Bud Ekins, who specialized
in motorcycle stunts including some for "The Great Escape," "Then Came
Bronson" and "CHiPs." Max Balchowsky who also provided stunt work for
"Viva Las Vegas," "Grand Prix," "Bullit" and "The Deer Hunter."
"Speedway" premiered in Charlotte, North
Carolina on June 12, 1968. It was #40 on Variety's movie list for the
year of 1968.
 The N.C. Auto Racing Hall
of Fame Museum is located in Mooresville, N.C a short drive from
downtown Charlotte, N.C. The museum can be reached from I-77 at Exit 36.
It is open to the public Monday-Saturday. Hours of operation are 9 AM to
5:00 PM. The museum features early NASCAR race cars, plus more recent
NASCAR autos, drag cars, memorabilia and a gift shop. We at AutoSpeak
suggest a visit to the N.C. Auto Racing Hall of Fame Museum if you have
an interest in race cars.
 It's been posted on another board that Dick Hutcherson has passed
away. A Holman Moody driver in the mid to late sixties and part owner of
Hutcherson Pagan fabricators along with former driver Eddie Pagan. First
met him at the Holman Moody Reunion and spent some time with the whole
crowd at another model show a few years later and wouldn't take anything
for the opportunity to get to know one of the real racers. One of the
best dirt track drivers the Grand National series ever saw and builder
of quality chassis, he will be missed. Here's my build of his '67 ride.
Dick Hutcherson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 Dick Hutcherson (November
30,
1931 - November 6, 2005 ) was a
American businessman and a former NASCAR
racecar driver.
A native of
Keokuk,
Iowa, Hutcherson drove in
NASCAR competition from 1964 to 1967. In 1965 he
finished second in the overall
NASCAR Drivers Championship and had nine wins. In
1967 he finished third overall but after four years of
top-level racing he retired at the season's end to
devote his energies to "Hutcherson-Pagan Enterprises," a
highly-respected chassis-building business in Charlotte,
NC.
Dick Hutcherson appeared in the 1968
stock car racing movie
Speedway starring
Elvis Presley.
Dick Hutcherson passed away on November 6, 2005 on
his way home from the Dickies 500 at the Texas Motor
Speedway.
Don White, Ramo Stott,
Dick Hutcherson, Lem Blankenship,
Ernie Derr - what do these guys have in common? They all call
Keokuk Iowa their home town. And they all raced or were involved
with the cars we love.
Located in the extreme southeast corner of Iowa on the Mississippi
River, Keokuk Iowa was a hotbed of racing activity in the
1960's and '70's, with possibly more name drivers than anywhere
outside of NASCAR country. The sign you see once hung at the
city limits of Keokuk. It was saved, and is now in a private collection.
The people of Keokuk are getting together to honor these men with a display of Aero Warriors.
 Dick Hutcherson's NASCAR career was short, only four years, but from
1964 thru 1967 Dick was a familar face in victory lane. In 103 starts,
Hutcherson racked up 14 wins, 64 top five's and 21 pole
positions. Hutcherson was the driving champion in the IMCA racing body in
1963 and 1964, and also has a 3rd place finish to his credit at the 24
hours of LeMans in 1966 driving a Ford GT with Ronnie Bucknam. All of
this great racing cars are featured in this artprint from motorsports
artist Bill Rankin in this 16x20 matted wall art. The image area is
11x17, and the print is reproduced from the original on 80lb bond
museum quality paper. Thanks for looking.
  These
are two different
signed Dick Hutcherson Trading Cards.
The cards are 1991 Pro Set #L5, and 1992 Pro Set # L4. All of the cards
were signed with a black sharpie and are in excellent condition. Mr
Hutcherson was one of the true legends of NASCAR with 14 wins. Mr.
Hutcherson recently passed away.
Note: Dennis Garrett Writes: "The photo of Dick Hutcherson Pro Set
1992 & 1991 card is a photo of race driver Johnny Rutherford wearing a
race uniform with Gatorade's sponsor race patches. It has race driver
Dick Hutcherson's name printed under race driver Johnny Rutherford's
photo on the race card."
"This is a well known mistake race card and race driver Dick Hutcherson
autographed these race cards as a Joke!!!"
Sincerely yours, Dennis Garrett Richmond,Va. 23225
Circuit mourns loss of former driver
 Dick Hutcherson, one of the most underrated NASCAR drivers of all
time, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack.
Hutcherson, 73, ran on NASCAR's top circuit for a little over three
years, from 1964-67, but in 102 starts, he won 14 times, scored 21
poles, 64 top-five and 73 top-10 finishes.
He won nine times in 1965, his first full season, but was ineligible
for rookie of the year because he was champion of another series, IMCA.
That rule has since been changed.
He was second in the standings to Ned Jarrett in his first full year
and ran second to Richard Petty in nine races before retiring as a
driver to become David Pearson's crew chief. In 1971, he helped start Hutcherson-Pagan, a company that supplies parts to NASCAR teams.
He still holds records for poles, including the most recent to score
a pole in his first start, and he captured his third in his eighth
start, the earliest of any driver.
Pearson said Hutcherson was one of the toughest competitors he ever
faced.
"We ran each other to death on dirt tracks," Pearson said. "He and I
ran each other on dirt like Petty and I did on other tracks."
 
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