Introduction and Truck History Overview

It sat in a junkyard in a building in a junkyard. About as nasty as you could imagine it could be. What I really really wanted was an Xpipe. >> This was actually a purpose-built truck for Denniser in 99 for one race. >> And obviously the lessons have paid off. He has got that number Dodge conserving tires. Here we go. >> And it was built brand new for the 2000 season as a road course truck. So, it was a purpose-built road course truck. Has the reverse mount, panard bar, the battery mounted to the right side, all the stuff we can do for right side road course racing back then. And since then, all that stuff's becoming illegal. You can't do that anymore. But, uh, the unfortunate part was is the truck stopped road course racing after this. This was the last one they had for almost 10 years. We had no use for this truck, so it sat in our showroom for the next 6 years, and it just sat there. And when we sold our race team, it got sold to one of those crazy Dodge guys that loves Dodge stuff out in North Dakota. So, he bought a bunch of stuff from us and about 18 years later, we ended up back with it. >> Did you know that he kept it the entire time? >> I I kind of knew because about not just after dad died, but a little over 3 years ago, the guy contacted me, his son contacted me and said his dad was running into some health problems, too. He's like, you know, I'm going to sell all this stuff. and he sold dad's old Lebaron and he bought a Dodge Charger from us to a street car that dad had and he sold that to somebody else through a lot of different people. Brad ended up back with the Lebaron. It's not here. It's over at a different place. But, uh, this truck still sat there and the guy didn't know what he was going to do with it. And honestly, there was no real resale unless you were a Dodge guy that wanted it. And at the time, I told him, I don't really have anything I can do with it because I was trying to get out of the shop that we were in and and just was no reason to have it. And then last year when Brad went to walkins Glenn, Jim France and Mike Hilton have bought into this HSR deal. So they actually are running it out of Daytona. I mean it's it's like a full-on almost NASCAR deal now. So uh they started a NASCAR Classics division within HSR and they're bringing race cars to the track to try to just drum up some interest. And when Brad went there and and he watched the race with them and noticed how excited that those guys got…