Wendell Scott's 1973 Wrecked Racecar Exhibit

Uh that's one of the Winston show cars. um Hollywood uh was a gentleman named Mark Rogers that worked uh at RJ Reynolds Sports Marketing and uh he died of cancer and uh he was just one of uh one of everybody's favorite people and so um Will uh put this car in the museum as a tribute to him. What's the backstory on this Wendle Scott car? Well, probably the best race car Wendle Scott ever had. racing in the uh 1973 D Winston 500. He was in a crash I think on lap 13 and uh he was in the hospital. In fact, it's a miracle that he that he survived the accident. But uh he had his life savings in this race car and it basically ruined him financially and uh and basically ended his racing career. Um, the car was uh sold by the Scott family to a gentleman down in Georgia. He contacted Will and uh Will went down, bought it and Wendle's ramp truck. We're in the process of getting the ramp truck running. We're going to leave it patina and everything like it is, but we want to get it running so we can take it around and show it. But we tal talked about maybe redoing this car, but then we decided it was a better uh display leaving it like it was. Oh yeah. Where did it sit outside for so long to up in Danville at uh Wendell's shop? Oh, so this was just like in the woods or something behind his [clears throat] place. And that Wow. It's a home and Moody I don't know if I don't know if it's a whole Moody car, but it's got a Holman Moody switch plate on it. Odds are it was I mean this is the right era for it to be a homemoody car, isn't it? I think it was