NASCAR Hall of Fame Exhibit Tour

we're going to check out the new Glory Road cars exhibit this is called Glory Road 75 years 2023 we're celebrating the 75th anniversary of NASCAR Glory Road features 18 historical race cars we change this out every three years we have a different theme each time we do glory for this Glory Road that we wanted to Encompass as many individual themes as we could over a 75-year history there's not just one theme or two themes there's a lot of different ones for NASCAR so we have tried to include as many areas of Interest as possible including drivers tracks technology and we just opened this in the second week of January eight different series past and present represented on here the 18 drivers represented here have won a total of 55 NASCAR championships and 729 Premier series races like the Richard Petty car there with the the fluorescent paint is there any kind of coating on the windows that blocks UV light from fading these cars while they're sitting here for three years yes the windows are tinted that is that is interesting I just think about random stuff like that so in 1950 Darlington Speedway was open and Darlington was the first paved track in NASCAR that was longer than one mile there was a guy named Griffin who owned a automobile dealership in South Carolina he got a 1950 Oldsmobile that was the first entry into the First Southern 500. Buck Baker drove the car before they raced it they drove this car all around the cities in South Carolina to promote the race and get race fans to come and the initial race Drew more than 20 000 people unfortunately Buck crashed this car out but he went on to to win the event several times and he's now a Nascar Hall of Fame inductee went in in our class of 2013. this was one of the original performance cars Oldsmobile 88 with the famed Rocket 88 V8 engine and this is the car no this is a replica of the car okay this is what it looked like then yeah with a car that he crashed was destroyed and probably scrapped most of the cars on here 14 or 15 of the 18 are actual race cars the older you get the less likely it is that a team saved the car because in the old days nobody really paid attention to Future historic value or you know they were just race cars they use them up they sell them they scrap them they take parts off them use them for next year's car yeah they didn't really have the budget just keep a car just for the sake of keeping it they had to sell it and put that money back into the next one that's right…