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Tracing the Car's Post-Racing History

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Dodge Charger Daytona Survivor Reunited With Its NASCAR Driver! (Dave Marcis' Winged Warrior)

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Dave recounts the car's post-racing journey. He initially sold the car to a collector in Milwaukee, Donnie Danielwicz. Years later, Danielwicz offered the car back to Dave when he could no longer store it. Dave, also lacking storage, suggested putting it in a museum. This led to the car being displayed at the Talladega Superspeedway Museum. Eventually, the car found its way to Will Spencer (owner of the Winston Cup Museum), where it was restored and used as a Goody's Headache Powder show car, painted with Richard Petty's iconic #43. This reveals how race cars often take on new lives and roles after their competitive careers.

Goal: Understand the car's ownership and display history after its active racing career.

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goodie show car. What was it doing? See, I sold this car to a guy in Milwaukee by the name of Donnie Danielitz. And I can't remember what year that was because it was in my shop. I kept it and and I needed the money. And uh he called me after he had it for about five or 6 years. I I think he lived with his mother. They were moving or something. So he wasn't going to have a garage to put it in. And he uh called me and said, "Do you want the Wayne car back?" He said, "I'll give it to you." And I said, "Donnie, I don't have no room for it, no place to store it." And uh I said, "Do you want to maybe put it in a museum?" And he said, "Yeah, I'd love to." So I called Don Neon and asked if they'd want to put the car in the museum at Talidatum and Don said absolutely. So I uh I called uh Donnie Daniels back and I said Donnie uh they'd love to have the car in the museum. I said I'll tell you what. I said we're running the Atlanta race this weekend. I'll call down there and I I can get you some passes for the race to come in the garage and stuff. why don't you come to the Atlanta race and then Monday go take the car to Tallaladega. So he said, "Well, that would be nice. I'd love to do that." So he did that. Well, that weekend when the car was sitting on the trailer in the infield at Atlanta, Little Bud Moore seen the car and ended up talking to Donnie Daniels and buying the car. Then I guess he brought it home and he's the one that sold it to Goodies Headache Powders. It was a combination. I know. And then Goodies Headache Parters used it in Yeah. My aunt in all the pre-race promotions with a 43 on it and they drove it around. That was That's when we redid it. Yeah. So my aunt and Loella and Spencer owners and we got it. If I remember right, we went it I remember seeing it on the trailer. It had a for sale sign. It had $2,500. They told me they wanted to buy it to use it for the show car. They were actually using a an older 40s style car for a show car for goodies and that's that's where it started. So yeah, see they always helped Richard and so so they had it painted up with with his headache powders on it and 43 on the door, right? So Richard didn't have a Dodge. Richard ran Plymouth, right? And then you know I always I wasn't really sure if it was a you know a Dodge by Petty or or or what. And then as you know time went along and Tim Walker had told me that you know Ray Ray Nichols and then he I saw the story kind of put it together. So it it was it was a goodie…

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