death_place death_date cup_poles birth_place cup_wins total_cup_races last_cup_race best_cup_pos first_cup_race birth_date years_in_cup cup_top_tens article_title name
charlotte , north carolina 18 june 2015 0 huntersville , north carolina 0 85 1983 world 600 -lrb- charlotte motor speedway -rrb- 30th -- 1975 1968 hickory 250 -lrb- hickory speedway -rrb- december 13 , 1939 14 24 jim vandiver
 jim vandiver
jim vandiver

jim vandiver -lrb- december 13 , 1939june 18 , 2015 -rrb- was a nascar winston cup series driver that raced from 1968 to 1983 .
as an independent driver , he had limited financial resources but enjoyed a level of success that relatively few independent drivers had during the formative years of nascar .
