While the team was a dominant force in the 1960s and 1980s, the final years were tumultuous due to lack of sponsorship and uncompetitive race cars.

Bob Welborn, Fireball Roberts, Cotton Owens, and Tommy Irwin drove that car.

1963 saw Weatherly and Moore repeating as champions, despite winning only three races and running just over half of the schedule.

06) at Charlotte Motor Speedway, finishing 29th, Weatherly was considering retirement going into 1964, and he drove only a couple of races for Moore, until tragedy struck.

8 Mercury at Riverside International Raceway, Weatherly began setting up for Turn 6 when he lost control and struck the concrete barrier, then slid across the racetrack where his car came to a stop.

Wade had a strong year, winning four consecutive races and finishing fourth in points.

16, Bobby Allison, Gordon Johncock, Sam McQuagg, Cale Yarborough, and LeeRoy Yarbrough all drove, most of whom finished in the top-ten one.

His replacement was an unpolished rookie named Darrell Waltrip, who had a top-ten at Darlington Raceway.

Cola as sponsor, but was released after Riverside, and Buddy Baker drove for the rest of the year, and won two poles.

Moore hit paydirt in 1982 by hiring a hotshot young superstar named Dale Earnhardt and signed Wrangler Jeans as primary sponsor.

After only improving slightly the next year, Earnhardt departed for Richard Childress Racing, and was replaced by Ricky Rudd (who was driving the No.

Compared to the teams' previous success, Bodine's performance was disappointing, and he left to replace Rudd at King.

Lake Speed, who had been announced as the new driver for 1994 on September 3, 1993, took over for Bodine at that Dover race, and his best finish was an 11th at the Mello Yello 500.

At the end of the year, Speed departed for Melling Racing, and popular veteran Dick Trickle took over.

In 1998, Moore began developing three-time ARCA champion Tim Steele for a run at Winston Cup with sponsorship from Nike and Sony.

After a failed attempt with Jeff Green to qualify for the 1999 Daytona 500, Moore was approached by a California family, Robert, Sue, and Randy Fenley, who were operating a successful NASCAR West Coast team and wanted to expand into Cup.

Jeff Davis and Lance Hooper shared the driving duties, but they did not qualify for the race.

Although no sponsor was named, the team assured Cope that there was enough financial stability for him to run for the entirety of his contract.

Soon afterwards, Cope quit the team in disgust because he felt that he was lied to when he was told the organization was financially secure.

After that, the team moved to North Carolina and hoped to run the ARCA series until they could afford to compete in NASCAR again.