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Dale Earnhardt's 1997 Newell Coach: I ALMOST Bought It! (Tour and Inspection)

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The video begins with the creator driving from Oklahoma City to Nevada, spontaneously deciding to purchase a 1997 Newell RV. He expresses excitement about the RV's alleged history, believing it was previously owned by NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, citing features like a custom red engine and a specific dealership badge. He recounts how he tracked down a previous owner through extensive online research to confirm the RV's provenance.

Goal: Travel to evaluate and potentially purchase the RV

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  • Pickup Truck Chevrolet — Personal transportation to Nevada

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all right so I am driving to Nevada right now from Oklahoma City just spur-of-the-moment just got my truck started driving because I'm going to by Dale Earnhardt's old RV it's a 1997 Newell the engines custom painted red man I'm just I'm in shock really that I found this thing and this is this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and honestly this bus should be in a museum but I'm gonna buy it and I'm gonna fix it up and it's gonna be my house I'm gonna live in it and you know totally Escalade races it's let's go it's gonna live the racetrack life again you won the Daytona 500 98 so you would have come back from being covered and all champagne and beer and everything you know take a shower clean up get ready in there that's that was that was this house for 30-something weekends a year the man Dale senior and I checked his RV listings like every day just about every day and for some reason that you know it's been a few days since I looked I looked again and I saw it listing said it was built for Dale and Theresa and I'm like yeah okay bro and you know I see that the pictures and like the you know Goodwrench clock and stuff on the inside and I'm like yeah it was probably like a really big fan had this thing put that stuff in there and it got misconstrued somewhere along the line probably thinks it was Dale's and then you know flipping through pictures it's got the Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet dealership badge on the back that looked like it was a little faded looked about as old as the bus was and I'm like yeah it doesn't confirm anything either because you know you can buy those I know bunch people that have them then I get to the engine bay picture it's got a Detroit 60 series diesel in it like all the duels and brave oohs of that area have era and it's read the whole motors red and it's got chrome bolts and stuff on it like that's when I was like you know what maybe this isn't baloney because all of the inside of Dale's race cars were read like he had that's just how it was and when they custom order these things if you tell Newell I want you to pay the motor read they will paint it red that's how it works is for a million dollar bus you get whatever you want and of all the motors I've ever seen got these listings hundreds and hundreds of the semi truck sell all that stuff the Detroit sixty series is always blue so that really caught my attention and I was able to track down the previous owner there's some severe internet digging and gave him a call and was…

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