What's a tribute car? It's one with no racing history that was built to emulate a genuine race car of a bygone era. Which brings us to this beauty we found on eBay. It's a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 ...

It was the year that Roberts’ fans began calling Daytona “Fireball International Speedway.” It also was the year that Smokey Yunick told Roberts he was through as a racer.

We’re down to 62 days until the 2017 Daytona 500 on Feb. 26th on FOX. In honor of being officially under the nine-week mark until the Great American Race, let’s look back at Fireball Roberts ...

Edward Glenn “Fireball” Roberts Jr. had perhaps the all-time best auto racing nickname. Oddly, it was a product of another sport. Roberts picked up the Fireball moniker as a teenager when a ...

After losing a tie-breaker to Buck Backer for a 2013 nod, Roberts just gets in a year later CONCORD, N.C. -- When Richard Trivette noticed that the announcement for the next NASCAR Hall of Fame ...

On the first weekend of the NASCAR racing season, there are no flowers at Fireball Roberts’ final resting place. There should be. At the end of a short stone walkway at Daytona Memorial Park is ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Truck after truck rolled onto the grounds of the former Bellevue Memory Gardens on a recent afternoon. One work crew arrived to clean the Fireball Roberts Mausoleum, while ano… ...

The new class will be announced on Speed at 6 p.m. Wednesday Fireball Roberts was the leading vote-getter in 2012 not to be elected Five members will be voted in from a ballot of 25 candidates A ...

Tim Flock and Fireball Roberts were elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame today, doubling the number of Hall of Famers who drove in the first Mobile race in NASCAR's premier division.

Glenn “Fireball” Roberts’ first NASCAR victory came on dirt. But with the opening of Daytona International Speedway in 1959, it was Roberts who quickly became a master of asphalt and helped ...

It's a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 tribute car that pays homage to the real thing that Fireball Roberts raced nearly 60 years ago in the old NASCAR Convertible Division that operated from 1956-59.