Understand Historical Context and Need for a New Car

bit of background on what's going on here ford is discontinuing the thunderbird after 1997 and the nascar teams using ford do not know what they're going to use in 1998 yet in a previous video with don he talks about their marauder super bird project where they basically took the best of every ford body panel that was currently available and constructed their own car out of it tried to get ford to build it for the street to homologate us they could use it in nascar well that didn't work that's kind of the precursor to this video where they docked her up this taurus to show it to nascar and pretend it's a prototype so that they can get more advantageous aerodynamics approved for the cup car body in 1998 at that time nascar did not know what the 98 taurus was going to look like so this prototype they built was a fudge they showed it to nascar and told them hey this is a pre-production 1998 taurus here's what it's going to look like here's how we want to do our stock car body and they bought it and then they found out that that was not actually what the taurus looked like and it's a pretty interesting story straight from the man himself don miller who was a co-owner of penske racing south of the time i'm don miller and i'm the chairman of the board of the north carolina auto racing hall of fame you're here today i suppose to talk about the history of the taurus as a race car not as a passenger car that car out there was it was just as we call it in the business a prop when we applied for