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Concluding Thoughts and Museum Call to Action

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Ford ALMOST Made a "SuperBird" for NASCAR in 1996 With Lincoln Parts..Here's Why It Never Happened

What happens here

The interviewer returns to the main room of the museum, standing in front of the Lincoln prototype, and reflects on the story told by Don Miller. He emphasizes the "what if" aspect of the Lincoln prototype's potential impact on NASCAR history and laments the visual aesthetics of the subsequent Ford Taurus race car. He then encourages viewers to visit the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame, highlighting its non-profit status and its mission to support abused children in North Carolina, and mentions the availability of racing memorabilia in the gift shop.

Goal: Provide a final summary of the historical narrative and promote the host museum.

Tools and materials

  • Racing Memorabilia Various — Items for sale in the museum's gift shop

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can be it's almost better to have a transition from the from the roof down to the decklid and the swale so is this this part of what made it so much better than a thunderbird you know it's everything the tighter the roof the back window that one of the things that gave it so much rear down forces look at the tops of these quarters and that in the flatness of that deck that it's like it looks like the landing strip and the aircraft carrier so then what's the timeline on this car the project was axed it was arrow study it where did it sit until it ended up here it read it was in a warehouse for a while and then they said what are you going to do with it and i said i'll just take it over and put it in the museum we're glad you did that was there anything else like that that never made it to a museum oh i'm sure there's plenty of them but you'll never hear about them you know just hearing that story makes me think what could have been with this didn't you say there was some kind of dispute as to what the what brand the car would be or what it would be called if it got built for ford and and lincoln and mercury you know they all they all had their representatives you know lincoln mercury people wanted to call it a marauder and a uh in the ford division wanted to call it a monika super super bird i think but of course then you know everybody'd say well super birds dodge you know yeah you know so but you know that's a lot of supposition there not all you guys a lot of you guys are around my age 25 you grew up looking at the nascar ford taurus which just to be completely honest it's no surprise or secret that that is a just not a good looking car it was just weird looking i was a little kid i thought the taurus was like the ugliest nascar on the track it was just bad that guy was headed towards chevy's i thought the monte carlo was cooler so what if they did make the thunderbird super bird and our whole generation grew up not thinking that the taurus was the ugliest car ever made how many more of us i could be wearing a you know a motorcraft looking shirt right now and i'm not i don't know i got nothing against ford i like ford but i really wish their cars were cooler looking because i didn't want to have a toy tourist they were stupid like it was just not a cool looking car aluminums were cool monte carlos were cool the taurus was just but i wonder how much different my life would have been than some of your lives would have been if this car made it to the track…

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