{{BLP sources|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Charlie Schwam |image = |caption = |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |known_for = Employing some of the best NASCAR Cup Series drivers in the 1950s |occupation = NASCAR car owner }}
'''Charlie Schwam''' is a former NASCAR Grand National Series race car owner whose career spanned from 1955 to 1956.<ref name="charlies">{{cite web | url = http://www.racing-reference.info/owner/Charlie_Schwam | title = Charlie Schwam career information | publisher = Racing Reference | accessdate = 2011-07-22}}</ref>
==Summary== Schwam painted his vehicles in a bright shade of purple and would have cartoon boars on the vehicles.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.joeweatherly.com/Stories2.htm | title = Charlie Schwam's showmanship | publisher = Joe Weatherly.com | accessdate = 2011-07-22 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718212221/http://www.joeweatherly.com/Stories2.htm | archivedate = 2011-07-18 }}</ref> As the owner of a Ford dealership; Schawn brought Ford vehicles into the NASCAR races that he was involved in. He would play a role in helping Ford vehicles become faster than the Chryslers and Chevrolets that dominated NASCAR during the mid-1950s.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/realnascarwhitel0000pier | url-access = registration | page = [https://archive.org/details/realnascarwhitel0000pier/page/169 169] | quote = Charlie Schwam NASCAR. | title = Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France | year = 2010 | via = Internet Archive | publisher = Univ of North Carolina Press | accessdate = 2014-08-13}}</ref>
Schwam's employees included Billy Carden, Curtis Turner, and Joe Weatherly.<ref name="charlies"/> Out of 38 races, Schwam's vehicles have created one win for themselves (at the 1956 Southern 500) in addition to ten finishes in the "top-five" and 18 finishes in the "top-ten.<ref name="charlies"/>" They have led 461 laps out of 5455 and have finished an average of 17th place overall.<ref name="charlies"/> The number of miles that these three drivers have raced for Schwam equals {{convert|4789.5|mi|km}}.<ref name="charlies"/> Schwam seemed to have favored the numbers 9 and 99 for his vehicles while numbers 11, 19 and 95 were rarely considered.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.driveraverages.com/nascar_stats/team.php?team_now=1607| title = NASCAR Statistics: Charlie Schwam| publisher = Driver Averages| accessdate = 2014-08-13| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150921174048/http://www.driveraverages.com/nascar_stats/team.php?team_now=1607| archive-date = 2015-09-21| url-status = dead}}</ref>
Schwam's total earnings for his NASCAR career was $21,310 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|21310|1956|r=2}}}} when adjusted for inflation).<ref name="charlies"/>
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