Display of Various Winston Cup Show Cars

6:50

30:20

141.6K views

At 6:50 in

Winston Cup Museum Full Tour: His Father Brought Winston To NASCAR! (Unseen Vintage Pictures)

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

The tour continues through a collection of later-era Winston Cup show cars, which, as Colbert explains, are mostly reproduced rather than actual race-used vehicles. These include: Jeff Gordon's #24 Rainbow/Flame car (a show car, with commentary on differences from actual race cars painted in DuPont Neon Rocket Red); Kyle Petty's #42 Coors Light Silver Bullet Pontiac, notable as the car in which he achieved his last race win (autographed by Petty during a book signing); and Bill Elliott's #94 McDonald's car, which is genuinely race-used, evidenced by visible rub marks and tire rubber residue. Also featured is the #1 Winston Show Car, a red Thunderbird from the 1984-1989 seasons. This car is highlighted as an example of an early show car with more "stock car" features like a glass windshield, unlike later models that used Lexan. Its interior displays simpler, more primitive controls.

Goal: Showcase the evolution of Winston Cup cars and differentiate between show cars and race-used cars.

Tools and materials

#1 Winston Show Car - Thunderbird Ford — Exhibit for observation
Dale Earnhardt's #3 Plus Car — Exhibit for observation

What they say

(1,528 characters)

Hide

some of the uh funny money that RJ Reynolds uh threw out to the fans. And then this car, this last car that Kyle Petty won a race in, uh Kyle was here for a book signing and uh I asked him to autograph the car. Whenever we get drivers in here, we get them to autograph their pictures on the mural and autograph their cars. And uh he told me, he said, "Funny story, it's the last car I ever won in." Prior to that, did he not know where that car went? It probably didn't have a clue. Is this the car that he won all those races at Rockingham with that? That I don't know. I just know it was the last car that he won uh won a race in. Number 10. How about this one? That's a Bill Elliot car. It looks like it was raced. Yeah, it was definitely raced. Like it was raced and then partially cleaned up. Like they were they rubbed the rubber just off the numbers. That's pretty funny. It looks like it was part of the graphic. Are all these cars owned by the museum or something? Everything that's in here is owned by the museum. We have had some that are online, but these are all property of the museum. And what's really kind of cool, you can look at this show car here. This is basically this car was more of a stock car when you look at it. It's got the glass windshield. Um, you know, and then we're these are all Lexan. The primitive how primitive it was on the uh interior and stuff compared to the to the new cars. The holding booty switch. Yeah. What was the origin of this show car? cuz I know that some of the Winston show

Auto-generated from the video audio.