After purchasing Mach 1 Racing from Hal Needham following the 1989 season, Travis Carter Enterprises debuted at the 1990 Daytona 500, as the No.

After posting one top ten finish that year, Stricklin was removed as Spencer returned to the team again.

Spencer ran in the car for several years, the big change coming when Winston became the sponsor in 1998.

[1] That year, Spencer looked poised for a top-ten finish in points, but injuries kept him from doing that as he was replaced by Ted Musgrave and Frank Kimmel while he nursed his wounds.

At the end of the year, Carter announced he would expand his team to a multi-car operation, with three-time champion Darrell Waltrip driving the No.

In 2000, he retired from the Winston Cup, his lone highlight being an outside-pole qualifying effort at the Brickyard 400.

66 and qualified on the pole for the Las Vegas race, but he eventually was parked for several weeks while the team looked for a sponsorship.

26 after Haas-Carter found full-time sponsorship from Discover Card and split time in the ride with his older brother Geoffrey.

The 66 car returned part-time later in the year, with Japanese racer Hideo Fukuyama running a handful of races.

In 2003, HCM merged with minority owner Sam Belnavis to form BelCar Motorsports.

The team was to be known as TorqueSpeed Carter and run a limited Cup schedule in 2004 with John Mickel as the driver.

[5] In 2007, Travis Carter announced his return to NASCAR with the help of Newman/Haas Racing co-owner Carl Haas, Indianapolis Motor Speedway chairman Mari Hulman George, and Mi-Jack Products founder Michael A. Lanigan.