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|known_for = One of the first NASCAR Cup Series owners to become a [[millionaire]]
|occupation = [[NASCAR]] team owner/[[businessperson|businessman]]
|spouse = Theodora<ref name="
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The constant changes of NASCAR in the 1970s would render Krauskopf's team uncompetitive, and mid-way through the 1976 race season he put his racing team and its assets (shops, cars, etc.) on the market and then sold it to coal mining magnate [[Jim Stacy]].<ref name="careerover">{{cite web | url = http://www.freewebs.com/danno340/kkd/epilogue.html | title = The End of Nord Krauskopf's Career and his Death | publisher = Freewebs | accessdate = 2011-07-21 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121024213751/http://www.freewebs.com/danno340/kkd/epilogue.html | archivedate = 2012-10-24 }}</ref> As a result, he would constantly be at odds with NASCAR officials.<ref name="careerover"/>
Krauskopf retired in 1980 as chairman and owner of K&K Insurance Group. He sold his ownership share of the company in 1984.<ref name="
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