| Cotton Owens, left, one of NASCAR's top race car builders, discussed his new roll bar design with driver David Pearson. Owens went beyond existing rules and added an elbow-high bar after two NASCAR drivers were killed in driver's side crashes this year (1963). From: Carolina Dodge Dealers. Other notable safety innovations by Cotton Owens include the padded steering wheel hub, fuel check valve, .108 wall seamless rolled moly tubing roll bars, and numerous other improvements in both safety and race car design and construction. |
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