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Discovery of the Miller Buick

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Barn Find 1980s NASCAR Thunderbird & Buick Saved From Time! Abandoned After Days of Thunder Filming

What happens here

The team then shifts focus to the second car, the Miller Buick. This car is stored in another container at a separate shop. It features the iconic gold Miller High Life livery and the #12. The team notes it has a crate motor installed, suggesting a replacement, and its original GoodYear Eagle tires are still inflated.

Goal: Locate and identify the Miller Buick race car.

Tools and materials

  • Shipping Container — Storing the race car

What they say

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there, I'd never hear the end of it. How long has this thing been in here? I think it's been in here about a year. 6 months. Whenever you bought it, I got it. Yeah. It was in a Ruford, North Carolina in a uh a restored service station. The fella that bought it had it in there and had the service station all kind of restored as a toy box and uh uh he died and it set and the service station did and the wife got an offer on the property or sold the property and needed to get rid of the car and and uh so here we are. So, uh, Jerry's son, Allan, Jerry passed away last year, but was gracious enough to remove it before the demolition started on the building and stored it in this container for the last 6 months. But, but as he was telling us, they Jerry Mason, they supplied 63 of the cars that was used in the movie Days of Thunder, and this is one of them. Original white [Applause] letters. I'm surprised they still hold air. [Applause] Yeah, that looks like a factory Regal grill under that mesh there. Does it still have the original engine? No. Just a crate motor of some kind.

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