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Though it's Earnhardt who made the 3 legendary, I remember Richard Childress having the number on the car when he was still driving it himself. We're going back a long way here. And, he was one of those guys, along with people like Cecil Gordon and Buddy Arrington and JD McDuffie* and Jimmy Means, who had no shot at winning or even top 5 but ran anyway to make a buck. Very similar to the start-and-park guys of today, but they weren't ridiculously obvious about the parking.
*I did see McDuffie unbelievably win the pole at Dover once, though, after slapping some gumball Hoosier tires on the car. He was probably the Independent drivers' Jesus for a while after that...
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