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At
the completion of the 1991 season, the Hylton Motorsports Buick LeSabre was rebodied as a
1992 Pontiac Grand Prix by crew chief Terry Strange. The first appearance
of the 1992 Grand Prix was Daytona's Gatorade Twin 125 where James Hylton
piloted the car to a 25th place position. Hylton and the #48 Grand Prix
competed in eight Winston Cup events during the 1992 season with a best finish
of 25th coming at Michigan's Miller Genuine Draft 400.
During
the early nineties, multi-car teams began dominating NASCAR and under-funded
teams like Hylton Motorsports began having a harder time making races.
Hylton qualified for two races during the 1992 Winston Cup season, Rockingham's
GM Goodwrench 500 and Darlington's TransSouth 500 while teammate
Trevor Boys competed in Pocono's Champion Spark Plug 500. Boy's
Pocono start would mark the final time the familiar #48 Hylton Motorsports entry
would compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event. Hylton Motorsports had
recorded 707 NASCAR Grand National/Winston CUP starts with the number 48 since
the 1966 season.
The
1994 season started off with Trevor Boys piloting the Grand Prix to a 21st place
finish in Daytona's Gatorade Twin 125, which unfortunately did not put
him in the Daytona 500. This would mark the lone start for Hylton
Motorsports during 1994 as the large corporate teams began to dominate the
sport. In 1995, Hylton would drive the #48 Grand Prix to a 29th place
finish in the Gatorade Twin 125 and a 27th place finish in the
Charlotte's Winston Open. The number 48 would be dormant in
NASCAR until the 2001 season when it would be ran by Jimmie Johnson and Hendrick
Motorsports.
The
Hylton Motorsports Grand Prix moved to the ARCA RE/MAX Series in 1997 with
driver Jim Lamoruex behind the wheel. Lamoruex raced the car to an
impressive 13th place finish in Talladega's Winn-Dixie 500K, four
laps down to winner Tim Steele. Lamoruex recorded two Top-25 finishes
before destroying the car on the first lap of Atlanta's Georgia Power 200
on August 28 in a incident which claimed the life of Greeneville SC's Chad
Coleman. The long-serving chassis was stripped and sold for scrap after
completing 14 years of service for both the Stavola Brothers and Hylton
Motorsports.
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