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Herbert
"Herb" Nab
Born:
April 1, 1927 in Fruita, CO.
Died October 29, 1988 in Concord, NC.
Herbert
"Herb" Nab was born April 1st, 1927 in Fruita, CO., and
died October 29th, 1988 in Concord, NC. He was buried in
Carolina Memorial Park.
Nab came from
Portland, Oregon and moved east with
with NASCAR west coast driver Bill Amick when Amick got a ride with
Ford.
A squat figure, who usually was hanging over the fender of a stock car,
Herb Nab helped several of NASCAR’s top teams find success.
Nab’s first measure of fame was
to come in Ford Motor Company’s factory-backed Holman-Moody team of the
1960s. Nab led driver Fred Lorenzen to NASCAR’s first $100,000 season in
1963.
He later moved to Junior
Johnson’s operation where Nab’s expertise helped Cale Yarborough win two
of his three consecutive NASCAR championships in 1976 and 1977, plus the
Daytona 500 in 1977.
Nab was the winning Crew Chief
for the 1969 Daytona 500 with Leeroy Yarborough and the 1977 Daytona 500
with Cale Yarbrough.
Editor:
Information on Herb Nab is surprisingly
sparse on the internet. Please send any
stories, facts, pictures to be added to this
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Herb Nab
Short
Stories,
Quotes and
Bench Racin'
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The
first
neck
restraint
device,
years
ahead of
it's
time:
It
was
somewhat
of a
surprise
that
Charlie
Glotzbach
even
showed
up at
Bristol.
Two
months
earlier,
he
injured
his neck
in a
grinding
crash
while
leading
the
World
600 at
Charlotte
Motor
Speedway,
and had
only
driven
in one
other
race up
to that
point.
But with
some
help
from his
crew
chief,
Glotzbach
wound up
wearing
what
might be
considered
today's
equivalent
of a
head-and-neck
restraint.
"I
remember
Charlotte,
a few
weeks
before
that, I
wrecked,"
Glotzbach
said.
"Speedy
Thompson
came up
in front
of me
while I
was
lapping
him and
I got up
in the
loose
stuff in
the
tri-oval
and I
wrecked.
I hurt
my neck
and
crew
chief
Herb Nab
took a
dog
leash
and made
me a
strap to
hook on
my
helmet
and
around
my arm,
just to
hold my
head."
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Who
was the
best
Holman-Moody
driver?
Renowned
NASCAR
crew
chief
Herb
Nab
was once
engaged
in
conversation
in the
Holman-Moody
garage
about
the
“best
driver”
on the
circuit.
Pointing
to a
photo of
Fred
Lorenzen
on the
wall,
Nab
said,
“People
say
Fireball
Roberts
is the
best
driver.
That
there is
the best
driver.”
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Modern day
came
from
yesterday:
It’s
clear
that as
a crew
chief
Rick
Hendrick’s
Chad
Knaus is
one of
the
best. To
me what
are most
important
are his
leadership,
of
course,
and his
relationship
with
Jimmie
Johnson.
I think
that the
chemistry
they
have
established
over the
years,
and a
distinct
lack of
discord,
have
fueled
their
success.
Yarborough’s
crew
chief
for much
of his
time
with
Junior
Johnson
was the
irascible
Herb Nab.
Nab
wasn’t
nearly
as
sophisticated
as Knaus,
but he
didn’t
need to
be. He
knew
cars and
engines
inside
out, and
to him,
that’s
all that
mattered.
If he
thought
something
would
make the
car
better
on the
track,
he just
did it –
and with
the team
owner’s
knowledge
and
approval.
Nab
didn’t
always
consult
with
Yarborough,
which
suited
Yarborough
just
fine.
So the
relationship
worked.
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Junior
Johnson
asks for
an
autograph:

In a
press
conference
at
Lowe’s
Motor
Speedway,
Junior
Johnson
revealed
why he
had
ordered
crew
chief
Herb Nab
to
assist
Janet
Guthrie
in
qualifying
for her
first
NASCAR
race,
the 1976
[then]
World
600.
Following
the
conference,
Guthrie
made a
pair of
ceremonial
laps to
celebrate
her
NASCAR
debut,
some 30
years
ago this
month,
then
signed
copies
of her
new
book.
After
signing
books,
Guthrie,
in
response
to a
question
from
this
writer,
indicated
that she
never
expected
to move
from
sports
cars
(she
started
racing
in a
Jaguar
XK-140
in 1963
with the
Sports
Car Club
of
America)
but
instead
wanted
to
compete
at the
Nurburgring
and in
the
Targa
Florio
in
Sicily.
Instead,
her
career
moved
into
Indy
cars and
NASCAR
stock
cars.
In
practice
for her
first
stock
car
race,
the 1976
Coca
Cola
[World]
600, she
had
constant
problems
in
arriving
at a
setup.
Junior
Johnson
told his
crew
chief,
Herb
Nab,
to “give
them the
setup.”
that
allowed
her to
be
fastest
qualifier
in the
second
day of
time
trials.
“I
helped
her
because
she
needed
help,”
explained
Johnson.
“I
helped a
lot of
other
drivers,
people
like
Richard
Childress,
I used
to help
him all
the time
because
I
thought
he was
going to
kill
somebody
on the
racetrack.
It
wasn’t
because
she was
a woman
or man;
it was
because
she
needed
help.
Herb,
he kind
of
snugged
up a
little
bit when
I said,
you go
over
there
and help
them. He
went on
and done
his job.
He was
glad he
did
after
she ran
as good
as she
did.”
A
memorable
sight
after
the
conference
was
NASCAR
superstar
and
legend
Junior
Johnson
getting
an
autograph
from
Guthrie
in a
copy of
her
book.
Written
by John
Davison
· May 9,
2006
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Speaking
of
Junior
Johnson,
what was
this
"feud"
between
he and
Bobby
Allison
and how
did Herb
play a
part?
This
rivalry
reportedly
began
when the
two were
working
together.
It was
Johnson
the
owner
vs.
Allison
the
driver.
The
difference
of
opinion
centered
on who
knew
what was
best for
the car
mechanically.
They
constantly
argued
until it
got to
the
point
where
they
wouldn't
even
speak to
one
another.
Crew
Chief
Herb Nab
acted as
''translator''
between
the two
men.
The
battle
came to
a head
when
Allison
wanted a
chassis
innovation
that
he'd
developed
(the
front-steer
chassis)
installed
and
Johnson
refused.
Reportedly
the
climactic
moment
came
when the
three
men were
standing
in
Junior's
shop
arguing
about
the
front-steer
chassis
and
Allison
said, ''Herb,
tell
Junior
to kiss
my
ass.''
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Herb Nab had a good sense of
humor as displayed here in this photo where he and Tiny Lund were
lifting "Tiger" Tom Pistone
Photo courtesy of TigerTomPistone.com
My, how
times have changed...
There is
a story that Cale Yarbrough's crew chief
Herb Nab was so angry during a race at Dover
where Cale was penalized 1 lap, that he went
down to the end of pit row a punched a
Nascar steward in the jaw. Nascar determined
that no disciplinary action was warranted.
Do that
today and there would be a suspension and
ten's of thousands of dollars in fines.
Things had a way of taking care of
themselves in the old day.
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Herb Nab in the center watching as Miss Hurst
Linda Vaughn busses winner Fred Lorenzen
at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1964 Yankee 300. Ralph Moody to the
right with sunglasses.

Winner Fred Lorenzen with Linda Vaughn
and Herb Nab with Trophy at the 5th Annual Atlanta 500 in 1965

Leeroy Yarborough Victory. Herb Nab to the right

Herb Nab (hands on hips) with Bobby Allison 12
talking with Bobby Isaac (red pants)
WEST COAST STOCK CAR
HALL OF FAME INDUCTS 2010 CLASS
AZUSA, Calif. – Eleven
racing stars from historic and modern eras were
enshrined in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame
before an audience of more than 300 in ceremonies held
July 2 at the Azusa Greens Country Club in Southern
California.
The induction brings the
eight-year-old hall of fame’s membership to 94.
In addition, Mel Larson
became the first honored by the hall for achievements on
behalf of the motorsports community. The award, to be
presented as appropriate in future years, will carry
Larson’s name.
Two of the four living
inductees – Allen Beebe of Modesto, Calif. and James
“Jimmy” Smith of Newport Beach, Calif. – were present.
Others inducted from the post-1970 era are Mike Chase of
Redding, Calif. and Rod Osterlund of Plumas County,
Calif.
Beebe is a longtime car
owner who won the 2006 NASCAR K&N Pro Series
championship. Smith is one of the pioneers of the NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series and its 2005 championship
owner. Chase won both K&N Pro Series and NASCAR
Southwest Tour titles. Osterlund, with driver Dale
Earnhardt, won the 1980 NASCAR Sprint Cup title. He is
the only west coast owner to win a Sprint Cup crown.
Deceased inductees are Bob
Caswell, Walnut Creek, Calif.; Bill “Tiny” Clinton, Los
Angeles, Calif.; Duane Edwards, Southgate, Calif.; Mel
Fernandes, San Leandro, Calif.; Joe Mangini Jr., Walnut
Creek, Calif.; Gordon Martin, San Francisco, Calif.; and
Herb Nab, Portland, Ore.
Caswell is a former driver.
Clinton and Mangini were car owners.
Nab was a championship crew
chief and Daytona 500 winner.
Fernandes is the first starter to be enshrined. Martin
was a three-decade motorsports columnist for the San
Francisco Chronicle.
One of
the event’s highlights was Nab’s induction, via
videotape by NASCAR Hall of Fame member Junior Johnson.
Nab was owner Johnson and Cale Yarborough’s crew chief
in 1976-77 and won 91 NASCAR Sprint Cup races with
Yarborough, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Fred Lorenzen and Bobby
Allison.
Johnson
related a never-before-told story of how Nab solved the
Goodyear’s tire problems at Talladega Superspeedway by
testing – without the tire maker’s knowledge – a tire
without grooves. He then convinced NASCAR President Bill
France Sr. to change to rules to allow “slick” tires.
“Anybody
who he worked on their cars, they’d win,” said Johnson
of Nab. “Ninety-nine percent of the time his was the
fastest car.”
Hall of
Fame members John Kieper and Hershel McGriff accepted
Nab’s award.
“He was
a really sharp mechanic and one of the first in the
northwest to monkey with the chassis,” said Kieper. “He
made a car go around a corner.”
Added
McGriff, “He was outspoken. He’d tell anyone what he
thought.”
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LeeRoy Yarbrough savors the
thrill of victory with Miss Falstaff and crew chief Herb Nab (R)
following his triumph in the 1970 National 500 at Charlotte Motor
Speedway. Falstaff Brewing Co. was the primary sponsor of the NASCAR
champion point fund in 1970, tossing in $25,000 to the champion. The
following year, R.J. Reynolds came into NASCAR and has provided the
point fund.
NASCAR crew chiefs have
often been the unsung heroes behind the drivers whose names
go on race and championship trophies.
by Rea
White SceneDaily.com
But beyond their calls on race day, their innovations in the
shop over decades have led to rule shifts and changes in the
sport to an increased level of competition and an army of
NASCAR officials needed to monitor the inspection process.
A number of crew chiefs have risen to the very pinnacle of
the sport. Across various eras and with differing versions
of NASCAR's Cup car, these men raised the level of
competition in their respective eras — just by the work they
each did on their own cars.
Here's a look at 10 of the top NASCAR Cup crew chiefs over
the decades.
Dale Inman:
Inman, the first cousin of Richard Petty, actually won more
titles than his driving relative. Inman worked with Petty
for all seven of his Cup titles, and then with Terry Labonte
when he won the 1984 championship. Inman and Petty earned
their first victory together, and he helmed the team for the
impressive 1967 season in which Petty won 27 races,
including 10 in a row. He has five Daytona 500 wins to his
credit.
Leonard Wood:
In 1949, when Leonard Wood and his brother, Glen, formed
Wood Brothers Racing, he was credited as the team's sole
mechanic and crew chief. He was known as an innovator on pit
road and for his engine work. Wood is widely credited with
helping create the modern-day pit stop in the 1960s,
orchestrating an organized move that shaved seconds off the
stops for the team. He was David Pearson's crew chief with
the team from 1972 to 1979 and continued as a co-owner with
the Wood Brothers Racing team beyond his years as the crew
chief. He won the Daytona 500 four times with four drivers —
Tiny Lund, Cale Yarborough, A.J. Foyt and Pearson.
Ray Evernham:
Voted by the media earlier this decade as the greatest
NASCAR crew chief in history, Evernham gained his
championships working with Jeff Gordon. In six
seasons, the pair won 47 races and three NASCAR Cup titles.
Evernham was also known for innovations on the cars, most
notably the T-Rex car that was so stout that despite meeting
the inspection requirements, the team was told not to bring
it back to the track. Evernham later decided to move into
another role, starting Evernham Motorsports, the team that
helped bring Dodge back into the sport as a manufacturer.
Harry Hyde:
Hyde may have been one of the sport's top crew chiefs for
more than 20 years, but many fans know him as the man
credited as the inspiration for the lead crew chief in the
movie, "Days of Thunder." Hyde is credited with 56 wins as a
crew chief and won the 1970 title with Bobby Isaac. Hyde had
learned how to be a mechanic during his work in the Army and
used that experience to transition into a NASCAR career. He
worked with a wide range of drivers, including Bobby
Allison, Cale Yarborough, Neil Bonnett, Dave Marcis and Tim
Richmond.
Kirk Shelmerdine:
Shelmerdine worked with Dale Earnhardt for four of the
driver’s seven Cup championships.
Shelmerdine began his career working as a crew chief and
tire changer and became the youngest crew chief to win a
race and a Cup title. Between 1986 and 1992, he won four
titles with Earnhardt. Overall, he earned 46 wins with 246
top-10 and 142 top-five finishes. He is currently the owner
of Kirk Shelmerdine Racing.
Chad Knaus:
The most modern entry on the list, and the only active crew
chief on it, Knaus has set NASCAR records of his own by
winning four five consecutive Cup titles.
Knaus began his career as a crew chief with Melling Racing
and driver Stacy Compton in 2000. He joined Hendrick as a
crew chief with Johnson in 2002, and since then, the two
have won 45 races together and four championships. They have
finished in the top five in the standings every season.
Bud Moore: Moore
worked on Modifieds before NASCAR even became a sanctioned
series and then became a success in it. A veteran of World
War II, Moore was a mechanic on race cars before there was
even a NASCAR. He won the 1957 championship with Buck Baker
as his driver, then moved into a role as a team owner and,
working in a hands-on role, won championships there as well.
He won the Bill France Award for Excellence in 1997.
Herb Nab:
Nab won a pair of championships with Cale Yarborough in
1976 and 1977 during his tenure as a Cup crew chief.
According to race-database.com, the pair made 89 starts
together, earning 22 wins and two titles. They won 18 races
in their pair of championship seasons. Nab also worked with
LeeRoy Yarbrough and Fred Lorenzen during his Cup career. He
won the 1969 Daytona 500 with Yarbrough and the 1977 running
of the event with Cale Yarbrough.
Smokey Yunick:
Yunick was viewed as one of the early innovators in NASCAR
racing. He won 57 stock car races in his career, which
involved working with storied drivers such as Herb Thomas,
who won the 1951 and 1953 titles, and Fireball Roberts and
Marvin Panch. He won the 1961 Daytona 500 with Panch and in
1962 with Roberts. He is widely credited with 57 Cup wins
and was twice named the mechanic of the year. He is the
inventor of at least nine patented items.
Jake Elder:
Elder was nicknamed "Suitcase" for his
willingness to move to another team and work with it in the
Cup garage. But he is perhaps best known as a chassis man
who had the ability to find more speed in a car when needed
and for being a championship crew chief who won two titles,
in 1968 and 1969, with David Pearson when he drove for
Holman-Moody. He also worked with Dale Earnhardt during his
rookie 1979 season and for a portion of his 1980
championship season. Elder also worked with a variety of
other teams in the NASCAR Cup garage throughout his career.
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Herb Nab just to the left of Junior Johnson
CHEATING? Oh no, Herb Nab would never do that... (at
least if he could get caught easily...)
CHEATING: Authored by Tom Jensen: This overdue look at
the “black art” of cheating in NASCAR, and along the way
manages a decent job of separating fact from fiction. He
delves into the acts of cheating in the sport from its
beginnings (when apparent Grand National winner Glenn
Dunaway was disqualified and the race win went to Jim Roper)
through the 1990s into the 21st century.
Three
cheating scandals stand out here, and all three involve
teams owned by Junior Johnson. If there is a theme to
this book, it is that Junior Johnson was the sport’s most
dishonest team owner. The first was the 1973 National 500 at
Charlotte. Cale Yarborough won the race, but his car and
second-place Richard Petty were protested by Bobby Allison.
An extremely long tear-down took place, and NASCAR
ultimately said the race results would stand – which led
Allison to file a lawsuit against NASCAR, because there was
evidence that Cale’s Chevrolet, wrenched by Johnson, ran
some 70 cubic inches more than allowed by the rules. If
there is an eye-opener in this book, it is the admission by
Junior’s engine builder at the time, Robert Yates, that that
particular engine and others built for Junior were indeed
illegal; Yates states it measured 500 CID, versus the 431
limit of the time. Actually, though, Yates’ admission isn’t
a surprise, as former crew chief J. C. “Jake” Elder stated
in several 1990s interviews that Junior’s crew chief
Herb Nab acknowledged to him
that Junior usually ran illegal displacement in his engines.
The
second involves the infamous “Pettygate” Charlotte race of
1983. Jensen doesn’t delve into any new ground here, which
is a shortfall, because there was more to that scandal than
is usually acknowledged. Petty’s team had won twice in 1983
but had struggled against Johnson and also the DiGard Racing
team headed by Gary Nelson (and powered by Yates) in
horsepower (Jensen deals at insufficient length with
cheating by Gary Nelson with DiGard and other teams
elsewhere in the book), and Maurice Petty built (and readily
acknowledged after the race) a 381 CID engine. What is
underappreciated is that Petty beat Junior’s driver Darrell
Waltrip – because Waltrip backed off in turn two and let
Petty take a big lead. There was speculation then and later
that Waltrip was also running more CID than allowed, and
given Yates’ and Herb Nab’s
admissions there is no reason not to believe that Waltrip
usually ran illegal displacement. It is a shame because it
tarnishes the accomplishments of Waltrip (a great driver
despite also being overrated as such) and also Cale
Yarborough (a superior driver incapable of being overrated),
who won the majority of his races (55 of 83 career wins) and
all three of his titles in Johnson racecars.
It also
puts a period to NASCAR’s long-running practice of being
more nitpicky to certain teams over others (notably
Johnson’s), notably Petty Enterprises, Wood Brothers Racing,
Ranier Racing, Bill Elliott’s racing team, Hoss Ellington
Racing (whose owner cheated mostly for fun and readily
admitted such), and (somewhat ironic given how much success
they enjoyed) DiGard Racing (one of the most revealing such
episodes involved Bumpergate at Daytona in 1982; NASCAR made
Gary Nelson lower the rear bumper on the DiGard car to
increase drag; Nelson angrilly had it slapped on with
insecure fasteners to fall off on the track; he denies that
he had it deliberately slapped on to fall off during a race,
but there is no reason to believe him); this nitpickery
practice does continue today, though at a far less blatant
level.
Another
who got a lot more than his fair share of NASCAR nitpickery
was Harry Hyde, whose cars won the 1970 title with Bobby
Isaac and whose cars were regularly torn down more
thoroughly than most, such as in the scandal-plagued ’73
National 500; Hyde’s car was torn down four times during the
weekend and when NASCAR demanded another teardown, he
refused and was disqualified. Hyde also got swept into the
Nitrousgate scandal of 1976; after Daytona 500 qualifying
his Dodge was found with a moveable flap on the radiator,
which allowed air to flow more efficiently and increase aero
slickness; the flap met the letter of NASCAR’s rulebook but
amid the discovery of speed-enhancing nitrous oxide bottles
on several cars, NASCAR ruled it didn’t meet the spirit.
Nitpickery shows in a recent area dealt with by Jensen – the
“Tiregate” New Hampshire 300 of late August 1998. On final
stops with some 73 laps to go Jeff Gordon took two tires to
the four taken by Mark Martin, John Andretti, and others
(this was when tires were much softer and wore more easily
than in 2001-2, when Goodyear went with compounds of such
hardness that wear became almost impossible); under such
circumstances Gordon should have been swamped by cars with
four fresh tires, but instead he out pulled the cars on four
fresh tires and easily won a race he had not run all that
competitively in throughout that day. Jensen details the
inaccuracy of claims by Jack Roush of chemical treatment of
tires by Ray Evernham, but ignores that this was a red
herring to begin with – the real issue being Goodyear
playing favorites on tires, a practice angrily noted a year
later by team owner Andy Petree in a spat over lack of
access to Goodyear tires for much-needed test sessions, and
also briefly discussed by Geoff Bodine in Shaun Assael’s
superb NASCAR book “Wide Open: Days & Nights On The NASCAR
Trail. “
The
third big scandal discussed in the book was Jimmy Spencer’s
two restrictor plate victories of 1994; once again, we have
a cheating scandal involving Junior Johnson racecars. In
fairness to Spencer, comments about his ability by Jeff
Gordon’s stepdad John Bickford (made in naturally fawning
comparison to Gordon’s ability) are a little out of line, as
Spencer had shown superb drafting ability years earlier in
Travis Carter’s Chevrolet and showed it again in Dick
Moroso’s Grand National Ford, Travis Carter’s
Winston-sponsored Fords, and James Finch’s Grand National
Pontiacs. Regardless, it should be clear that Spencer’s two
Winston Cup wins were achieved with an illegal restrictor
plate manifold; that it could have escaped NASCAR pre-race
inspection is not as difficult as Jensen implies at points,
given the ingenuity of race teams.
One area
where Jensen could have set the record straight but does not
even discuss is suspicion about the 1984 Firecracker 400.
(Editor: Greg Sacks lone Nascar Cup victory in a Stavola
Brothers R & D car for the Bobby Allison team which was
rumored to have a large CID engine).
During
“The Call” mini-controversy of 1995 there was some question
about the legality of Richard Petty’s 200th win, about how
the engine supposedly was over the limit on displacement.
There ought to be no question about the legality of that win
or all but one or two other Petty wins, given how NASCAR
scrutinized his cars more than most, how Petty did not show
more horsepower than race favorite Cale Yarborough (Petty
won on superior handling and the car’s better drafting
ability. Cale’s Ranier Chevrolets of the time were
noticeably inferior in handling than Petty’s Pontiacs or
Bobby Allison’s Buicks), and also how the Petty's had feuded
with NASCAR’s France family almost from the beginning,
making claims of a “Call” going to him implausible.
Jensen
likewise should have noted that in the ’73 controversy Petty
readily admitted running a mixture of engine cylinders of
varying displacements – a few over the legal limit, several
well under it, for an average within the rules. As Bobby
Allison himself noted during the Pettygate scandal, “Richard
shoots straighter than most. “
In all,
though, the book is worth having for providing information
on a “black art” in NASCAR racing. Jensen provides a look at
the psychology of cheating when he notes Darrell Waltrip’s
infamous 1976 quip, “If you don’t cheat, you look like an
idiot; if you cheat and don’t get caught, you look like a
hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. ”
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stories, facts, pictures to be added to this
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Herb
Nab's Trophies

VERY RARE VINTAGE NASCAR TROPHY FROM
THE 1972 CAROLINA 500 AT NC MOTOR SPEEDWAY. IT IS THE POLE POSITION
TROPHY from the 1972 NORTH CAROLINA MOTOR SPEEDWAY SEVENTH ANNUAL
CAROLINA FIVE HUNDRED.
DRIVER WAS BOBBY ALLISON, CHIEF MECHANIC WAS HERB NAB.

VERY RARE VINTAGE NASCAR POLE TROPHY
FROM THE 1978 OLD DOMINION 500.
FASTEST QUALIFIER VIRGINIA 500.OLD DOMINION 500, 1978 SEASON,
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY,
LENNIE POND DRIVER, HERB NAB, CHIEF MECHANIC

A VERY RARE VINTAGE NASCAR TROPHY
FROM THE 1962 VIRGINIA 500. IT IS THE POLE TROPHY FROM THE RACE.
THE FRONT FACE SAYS: MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY, VIRGINIA 500, FASTEST
QUALIFIER, APRIL 6TH 1962
DRIVER WAS FRED LORENZEN WITH CHIEF MECHANIC HERB NAB.

RARE PRESTOLITE PIT CREW RACE CHARLOTTE 600 1963 TROPHY. THIS IS
A TROPHY THAT WAS PRESENTED TO RACE WINNING CHIEF MECHANIC (CREW
CHIEF) OF THE CHARLOTTE 600 HERB NAB. DRIVER WAS FRED LORENZEN.
TROPHY WAS OBTAINED DIRECT FROM MR NABS ESTATE. ALSO CALLED THE
GOLDEN WRENCH. A TRUE ONE OF A KIND PIECE

A S-K TOOLS GOLDEN RATCHET AWARD
PRESENTED TO WINNER OF THE DAYTONA 500 WINNING CREW CHIEF HERB NAB.
DRIVER WAS FRED LORENZEN. A TRUE ONE OF A KIND PIECE.
Herb
Nab Winston Cup CREW CHIEF Results
Nascar Results by Track
Year |
Starts |
Poles |
Wins |
Top 5s |
Top 10s |
Avg. Start |
Avg. Finish |
X Led |
Laps Led |
Laps |
1964 |
9 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5.2222 |
10.8889 |
17 |
1686 |
2204 |
1967 |
19 |
6 |
1 |
8 |
9 |
4.3158 |
14.7368 |
25 |
678 |
4573 |
1968 |
20 |
6 |
2 |
13 |
13 |
3.9500 |
11.9500 |
48 |
1300 |
5554 |
1969 |
27 |
0 |
7 |
14 |
19 |
5.3704 |
9.0000 |
63 |
1153 |
7281 |
1971 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
12.5000 |
12.5000 |
4 |
26 |
778 |
1972 |
31 |
11 |
10 |
25 |
27 |
4.0000 |
5.3226 |
159 |
4343 |
10063 |
1973 |
28 |
5 |
4 |
16 |
19 |
4.5000 |
9.9643 |
83 |
3167 |
9314 |
1974 |
30 |
3 |
10 |
21 |
22 |
3.9333 |
6.6667 |
131 |
3530 |
9398 |
1975 |
27 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
13 |
6.5185 |
14.7778 |
70 |
2542 |
7353 |
1976 |
30 |
2 |
9 |
22 |
23 |
5.0667 |
8.2000 |
141 |
3791 |
9269 |
1977 |
30 |
3 |
9 |
25 |
27 |
3.9667 |
4.5000 |
126 |
3219 |
9747 |
Total |
255 |
45 |
60 |
163 |
180 |
4.7765 |
9.1529 |
867 |
25435 |
75534 |
Finished in the Top 10 an
AMAZING 7 out of 10 times - 71% of the time
Finished in the TOP 5 64% of the time! 2 out of 3 race finishes in the
TOP 5
Won 1 out of every 4 races, an AMAZING 24%!
Nascar
Results by Driver
Driver |
Starts |
Poles |
Wins |
Top 5s |
Top 10s |
Avg. Start |
Avg. Finish |
Times Led |
Laps Led |
Avg. % Led |
Laps |
Cale
Yarborough |
145 |
16 |
35 |
97 |
104 |
4.7655 |
8.6828 |
551 |
16249 |
29.616552 |
45081 |
Bobby Allison |
31 |
11 |
10 |
25 |
27 |
4.0000 |
5.3226 |
159 |
4343 |
34.713548 |
10063 |
LeeRoy
Yarbrough |
54 |
6 |
9 |
29 |
36 |
5.2963 |
10.6667 |
116 |
2482 |
13.993889 |
14438 |
Fred Lorenzen |
9 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5.2222 |
10.8889 |
17 |
1686 |
45.586667 |
2204 |
Darel
Dieringer |
15 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
4.1333 |
14.2667 |
24 |
675 |
12.499333 |
3652 |
Lloyd Ruby |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8.0000 |
22.0000 |
0 |
0 |
0.000000 |
96 |
Total |
255 |
45 |
60 |
163 |
180 |
4.7765 |
9.1529 |
867 |
25435 |
|
75534 |
Missing from this list is
Lennie Pond, though Harry Ranier as owner of Pond's car was often listed
as the Crew Chief, so Herb Nab was only listed as Chief MECHANIC. See
the Pole Trophy above for evidence of this. Do you know more? Send
HERE.


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