Given the fact there are some counterfeit cars out there Dale Jr wanted to make sure he had the genuine article. Dale Jr covered this car on the Dale Jr Download podcast and found that the car is the authentic one he sat in as a young lad he found 3 holes drilled in the cage where a radio box was mounted and they were still there and matched the photos, that's when he knew had the real thing!
@@acrock21 ... Robert Gee built it, refabricated the front clip to turn it into a Chevy Nova, then decades later, was 100% committed to restoring it at JR Motorsports’ Fab Shop. I got a chance to see it up close. No expense was spared to restore this beauty... you can see the progress photos online as it was being taken apart and meticulously rebuilt by the hands that originally created it specially for Dale’s low seating position... Just a beautiful piece of historical NASCAR/Busch Grand National Series machinery...
Dale won the first busch(xfinity) race ever in this car in 1982 at Daytona. It was originally a Oldsmobile omega. Dale won a pile a races in this car. He eventually changed the body to the nova you see here. But i know he won rockingham, Daytona Richmond, Darlington, and few others. He didn't lose much in this car. This was the very first car that rick Hendrick had any kind of ownership in. He Robert gee and dale owned the car. In 1983 dale secretly tested the very first car that rick Hendrick ever owned at Charlotte. A 1984 monte carlo. Dale at the time was under contract with Ford and bud moore. Google dale earnhardt drivng rick Hendrick car 1984. He had city chevy on the side. Solid white with green writing.
Can you imagine how dumb those guys felt when they found out how badly they embarrassed themselves. I hope they have friends who never let them forget it
@@ShaunHensley Because they were describing it as significant because it was a car he raced before he got into the top level Winston Cup, while he actually had been racing in WinstonCup since the late 70s and even won the championship in 1979 in his first full season. It's part of the Dale Earnhardt legend and to not know that while presenting the car at a big televised auction is the sort of this a "car guy" would have a tough time living down. I have to say that my original comment sounds really snarky seeing it now, no telling why I thought I had to be jerk that day
let's face it... if Rick Hendrick wants a car, he's gonna get that car. Once he enters his first bid, everyone else doesn't even matter anymore; it's pretty much gonna be his no matter how much it'll cost him.
The guy said it was be for Sr got into cup racing. That is incorrect. He was racing cup series in the wrangler car before this paint scheme made it to cup level and before Goodwrench was a main sponsor.
