Cale Yarborough's 1988 Oldsmobile

gone into, you just think about it. The, you know, some of the cars we've seen in here today, the drivers have gone, but their story lives and their spirit lives, uh, through these machines. We just got this just a little over a month ago. Uh, Kale Yarbor, five time Southern 500 winner. Kale actually gave this to the Florence Center, which is in Florence, South Carolina. So, we have it now on loan from them. But this is an authentic car that he had um in it actually was in his uh automobile dealership for many many many years. And probably about six or seven years ago, he decided to give it to the Florence Center. In 1987, he decided to become a car owner and he got out of the you know the ride that he had for so many years. Um the 28 car which eventually would go, you know, Davy Allison would begin driving the 28 car. Kale had a lot of success with Halman Moody. Excuse me, not Halman Moody with Robert. Good gosh, I'm Harry. I'm having a attack here. He had a lot of success with Harry Reneer in the 28 car winning the Daytona 500 and several other big races. But in 1987, he decided to go his own way. This actually the team that he bought was the old Race Hill Farms team, number 47, uh Jack BB's team. So he bought that team, changed the number to 29, went to an Ozemobile, and um he didn't win any races, but he did run this car the last two years of his career before he turned it over to some drivers like Dale Jarrett would eventually drive for him and a few others um before he finally got out of the business of being a team owner. Of course, Kale won five Southern 500s. He was a three-time uh NASCAR Cup Series champion, the first one to win three in a row, 76 through 78. Wonder if anybody watching knows what that little harmonica looking thing is for. I'm sure you've seen some cars that are more, you know, in today's standards a lot different. And believe it or not, that's from, you know, 87 and 88. Actually, that's from 1988. This car was last run 88. So, you can see how different it was there in the cockpit compared to what it is today. There's even this cockpit configuration is a lot more old school than even other cars of the same era. Like he had what he liked and kept using it. Like this seat looks like something that could have been used 20 years before that. But but and and here's here's some of what that difference may be is you have Kale Yar who had been competing for many many many years since the late 50s. So he was used to a different kind of