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Dale Earnhardt History Tour! Richard Childress Racing Museum & Abandoned/Former Race Shops!

What happens here

Locate the 2000 Talladega car, famous for being Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s last career win. Observe its preserved condition, noting any remaining race damage or marks that reflect its history. Also, find the exhibit featuring the actual blown-out tire from the 1990 Daytona 500, a significant artifact from a race where Earnhardt Sr. blew a tire on the last lap while leading, costing him the win.

Goal: Connect with significant moments in NASCAR history through preserved race artifacts.

Tools and materials

  • 1990 Daytona 500 Blown Tire Goodyear — Displaying a historically significant race artifact
  • Talladega 2000 Race Car Chevrolet — Displaying a historically significant race car

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before obviously after the actual race of dale's last win there were tire marks all over it so they probably redid it but they didn't want to mess it up anymore it would be my guess both of these cars have the exhaust out both sides so the exit there so does this one so these would have had the super cool sounding x-pipe configuration on them if you listen there's like one good clip in the actual childress posted video of richard driving this thing at talladega where he goes on a front stretch and you can you can tell that it has that x-pipe it just sounds you just you just know when you listen to it i heard them say once that this is the actual setup plate that when this was the shop like you remember in the other guy's shop there was that big flat metal thing this was this is where they actually did that it looks like there used to be something here i don't know if this was museum related at one point or what what is up with that door handle i don't know it looks like it came out of an 80s bathroom yeah built a gm tech center may 1st 1995 so this is like some you know promotional thing i don't think this is even rcr chassis well you'll notice this orange color in here it uh all of his interiors were painted this color and they match the stripes on the outside you see everybody doing these dale earnhardt tribute cards with freaking red vinyl and it is wrong they are freaking orange you can see it clear as day if you see one of these things in person i will show you it drives me up a wall when i see these black and red tribute cars they're not are any of these black and red no it's clear as day freaking orange yeah see we'll show this here that is red the plus is red this is orange red orange everywhere every single car is like that probably because the orange pops on a tv camera better than the red does and fun fact the orange on my monte carlo is the same paint code because they told me what it was and it's a ford color sorry to ruin that for all you chevy people dailer and hearts cars were painted in a ford mustang color it's a fact if you don't like it i don't care if you're wrong they told me oh you can see perfect example right here red orange yeah no i'm fully prepared for stupid clothes it's good it's not and it is a mustang color like in 1990 when dale earnhardt was leaning on the last lap and blew a tire they kept the freaking tire you can pause and read that they kept the dang tire richard shoulders is literally the

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