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Introduction to the Kodak Monte Carlo and its Unique Sound

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The Car That Changed NASCAR: Sterling Marlin's Crazy Sounding 1995 Daytona 500 Winning Monte Carlo!

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The video introduces Sterling Marlin's #4 Kodak Monte Carlo, the 1995 Daytona 500 winning car. Larry McClure, one of the car's co-owners, discusses the car's distinctive sound on the track, which was notably different from other cars of its era. Historical footage is shown comparing the sounds, highlighting how unusual it was for a NASCAR car to sound like an IndyCar.

Goal: Introduce the car and highlight its unusual exhaust note.

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until we got to daytona we really didn't know what it sounded like folks to listen to this four car this you hear him as he goes by yeah that's a different sound there is that ball valve still in here you could have like a lot more things than black and again we're going under i wanted to see underneath this car for a very long time we're here near bristol virginia in the mcclure brothers shop that is sterling marlin's 1995 winning daytona 500 car you know the one that had the crazy sound this is just his first clap the i guess the big thing about this car was this difference in the sound and i wish we could get a microphone down for you folks to listen to this four card when we unloaded in daytona that car sounds a little bit on you sounds like an indy car almost what our first lap practice lap on the racetrack we were told that everybody in the bush series who were going through inspection on the backstretch at daytona ran to the fence to see what kind of car that was it sounded like an indy car it's a different sound than you're used to hearing it sounds like an indie car here's a quick back-to-back sound

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