Slick Smith

{{short description|American stock car racing driver}}

{{Infobox NASCAR driver

|name = Slick Smith

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|birth_name = Ebenezer Smith

|birth_date = {{birth date|1929|8|17}}

|birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia

|death_date = {{death date and age|1997|1|27|1929|8|17}}

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|Total_Cup_Races = 50

|Years_In_Cup = 7

|Best_Cup_Pos = 12th (1953)

|First_Cup_Race = 1949 Race No. 1 (Charlotte)

|Last_Cup_Race = 1955 Race No. 36 (Montgomery)

|Cup_Wins = 0

|Cup_Top_Tens = 18

|Cup_Poles = 1

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Ebenezer "Slick" Smith (August 17, 1929 – January 27, 1997) was an American stock car racing driver. A native of Atlanta, Georgia,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A2wsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PssEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7324,4122889&dq=slick-smith+racing&hl=en|title=Eubanks in Car Race Today on Charlotte Oval|date=April 5, 1953|work=Spartanburg Herald Journal|page=B4|accessdate=2013-10-30|location=Spartanburg, SC}} he was competitor in the NASCAR Grand National Series (now NASCAR Cup Series) and competed in the first-ever series race in 1949.

He was one of the first drivers to receive sponsorship from a car manufacturer, running the 1950 race at North Wilkesboro Speedway in a Nash Ambassador previously driven by Bill France Sr. and Curtis Turner in the 1947 Carrera Panamericana.{{cite web|url=http://www.enterprisenews.com/topstories/x638682967/Greg-Zyla-First-official-NASCAR-sponsor|title=First official NASCAR sponsor|last=Zyla|first=Greg|date=October 21, 2013|work=The Enterprise|accessdate=2013-10-30|location=Brockton, MA|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031095826/http://www.enterprisenews.com/topstories/x638682967/Greg-Zyla-First-official-NASCAR-sponsor|archivedate=October 31, 2013|df=}}