Interview: #27 Rusty Wallace Stock Car

done when i got the car i was told it was in days of thunder and it's still got the camera mounts are still welded to your a-post on the inside of the roll bar i kind of believe that part where is that on this side there's three pilots there on both sides of it so they would pull the windshield out of the car and then put those giant cameras they used back in the 90s yeah they would fill the driver like you know as a chase car they would film the other car so i believe that park story yeah it is there [Music] through a long process i found a guy that actually purchased the car from hendrick motorsports and so when they were done filming the movie uh rick hendrick apparently had an auction and they sold all the cars off out of the movie and the guy still had the paperwork and stuff saying this was definitely the car it was in the movie i spoke to a guy that worked for rick and he also worked for paramount and why she sent him pictures of the car um he said that pretty sure this is true he said that so the fictitious cars in the movie hendrix built those cars but they went around to all the teams and they bought their show cars up so this car i'm assuming the richard petty car and that stuff were all former show cars for the teams he said they went to blue max racing who at that point in time rusty wallace drove for and he said that was actually a real blue max show car and i spoke to people that worked for the crew at that point and he's there said you know because there's liability involved if you say yeah that's definitely that car unless you've got paperwork saying it but he said most likely that's a real car and if as old as this chassis is they would have bought a chassis from nc anderson when uh raymond beatle who owned bluemax racing he bought out m.c anderson out of savannah georgia so this would have started off as a valvoline kellyarborough car and then it would have ended up being a tim richmond car so it could have been a bunch of different things you can kind of when i found out it was in the movie i started washing the clothes [Music] but there is the scene when they're supposed to be at bristol and it's a night race and they're all standing there by the wall after the race is over and um what's his name uh john c riley he said he makes that joke about there's a panel we don't have to fix the robert duvall kicks us out of the car if you look behind that car this car is sitting right there right behind you in this slivery yeah just like it is…