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IROC Cars and Acquisition Stories

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Inside a Massive Private Race Car Collection: Vintage NASCAR to TransAm! (AJ Henriksen's Garage)

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AJ explains the acquisition story of several IROC cars, noting that many were sold at 'insanely cheap' prices during the IROC liquidation auction in 2009. He details how he acquired a specific Mark Martin IROC Firebird, highlighting the challenge of bidding in an online auction for the first time. The car is presented with its 'Certificate of Authenticity' from IROC Holdings, confirming its identity as Firebird D27, driven by various racing legends like Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart.

Goal: Explain the history and acquisition of the IROC cars in the collection

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it you know at the time we're our full focus and funding was you know you know racing and Arc and stuff like that so he's like what are you going to do with that I was like I I don't know so we didn't get it I think they were going for between 10 and 15 grand roughly but we bought it a few years ago um for a for a little more than that knowing that it's a legit car I mean there's no way to to copy these things many people drove it it's at the most history for sure and then of course Ray figured out that this particular car being car 4 of this gen is car 27 when when Ray ended up you know starting there he wanted to start numbering cars and this was the 27th which I think is is way cool cuz I'm was born the 27th that was a pretty cool deal at lime rock that we brought this car and we're going to do another we're going to do more of that uh montere next year is going to be a very interesting event has that been publicly announced yet um I don't think so would say there might be more irck coming official details pending there's more people that drove this that aren't on that list Trickle and and Jay solder D Marcus they obviously all drove this car a lot cuz it was a test car as as well so they're not on the list but they for sure drove it um there's a few more that aren't on the list for whatever reason that we found out later drove it do you think you'll ever get this on the track at one of those events or just leave it a static show so at Lime Rock I didn't monay we will I want to know more about this this is a odd duck right here the Elliot Marino car yeah that was a onee thing um 1998 um and from what I've been told there's

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