Dale Earnhardt's 1997 Newell Coach: I ALMOST Bought It! (Tour and Inspection) 

Are you Stan Wattles? Or did you sell it to Stan

@@Stapleton42 I am not Stan. I believe Stan bought it from Newell after I traded it in on a new 2002. I still owned it when Dale died but had already agreed on a deal with Newell. After Daytona, my phone started ringing off the hook with offers, but the thought of profiting from Dale's death was grotesque to me and I completed the trade-in as previously agreed.

@@stuckinga3798....u got a picture pal?

@@Stapleton42 nice camper from a famous guy

@@wildestcowboy2668 first ... he’s not your pal. Second ... pictures are personal and none of your business. Third ... by by.

Thanks man. We won’t! This was actually the first one ever 😂

Dude its a 23 year old motor home. It has probably rotted to the ground and not moved since 1997.. For god sake.

mike86mike someone needs to show this to him I bet he would buy it!

He didn't it for dale

Its fairly nice My point of view $ 20 k

i posted this on Cletus' facebook about 5 mins before looking at the comments here lol. oops

waiting hell i messaged him about it hell yah brother

marcus livermore He most likely knew about this while the situation was developing

Right lol...like you never know what's out there when you're passing through random towns. Crazy to think about

How’d he get it

@@binkoboy55 I imagine someone just drove off with it Dale style.

the west is full of treasures

MrGrunthunter's Adventures Great info! I will definitely read up on the aqua hot systems and how to test each mode properly for the future. I had no idea

@@Stapleton42 If you want to message me or chat I can pass along what ever I've learned. You're making what I would consider a substantial investment on something that has no warranty, or lemon law, protection what-so-ever and it doesn't take much to get burned.

Todd Holyoake Thanks man. This one may have been a bust but I’m gonna find one soon and it’ll get compounds!

@@Stapleton42 That's badass. I grew up an Earnhardt fan and I still am. Can't wait to see what you find.

Not worth $20,000 lmao isn't that sumthing Bullshit ,sure it's worth 20,000 rims and wheels alone are worth $5,000

Common tactic to try to get the buyer to think it’s worth more.

He was never offered $600,000. This is a random camper in a long line of random campers. It's not the first or the last. There's no nostalgia for Dale Jr and no business angle to profit from it.

@@dchawk81 well if it actually belonged to dale Earnhardt Sr and nascar wanted it he probably could have gotten what ever they offered 🤷‍♂️

@@michaelsclark Why would nascar want an old camper?

The Talladega Motorsports Hall of Fame has Dale's 1994 Newell on display.

FloridaSoundsGood I’ve read about that one. It had a cooler paint job than this one I think. This coach would have been the one to replace the ‘94!

It belongs at the track !

Send it to the bone yard

Bart Simpson cool your jets man.

It would cost $350,000 to "restore" this coach to a presentable condition if you brought the coach back to Newell

glad you're here man!!

I SPEAK WHAT WE’RE ALL THINKING 😂

@@Stapleton42 Should have got Matt there to check if it was a prime pooping position !!

Thanks man that’s the goal 🤟🏻 glad you’re here

@@Stapleton42 youre waltrip video took me back. He was my guy since i was a kid.

😂 I was kinda upset too since I went all the way there and was let down. Didn’t show it though. By that point it was more less entertainment when he started to freak out 😂

Thanks Joel💪🏻

@@voterfraudisreals8612 Well, he wasn't answering any question based on his apparent statement. But then I saw your username so we can make the determination you don't have much of an IQ to make that assessment anyway.

@@doug9116 #voterfraudisreal. Let’s go Brandon.

Its far from a pos

@@broken_bones_acres sorry, more of a turd

@@voterfraudisreals8612 it’s a statement. Not an answer.

Julian Yale More than it’s worth for sure. Even with the history

U will see when ur old

@@davidfirth9342 I am already seeing it!

kingdavidcoffee ...right? Me and my younger brother drove a box trailer from Central FL to Houston, TX a couple years ago, for him to pick up a 1970 Corvette that he had every intention that he’d buy and “restore.” Descriptions, photos and lots of details were sent before he agreed to make the long trip to get this thing and haul it back home. We got there after driving all night and after an hour of trying to find the clown’s address, we see in his backyard a parted-out shell of a ‘Vette, missing the t-tops, no interior at all but filled with slimey duck water with a duck still swimming around inside of it, missing the headlight doors and actuators, missing the wiper door and actuator, no engine, tranny, rear end, sitting partially crooked on blocks and 4 X 4’s. Even the gas filler door on the rear deck was missing...and he had no spare parts for anything! We found out that asshole sent us his old Polaroid photos of the car from 1986 - long before the destruction and deterioration had begun. My brother was PISSED. I threatened to call the cops right then and there if he didn’t give me $500 for wasting my time, gas and wear and tear on my truck and trailer. His wife came outside and she started crying and yelling at both of us and her old man, but I knew she was just as mad at him as we were! We showed her the Poloroids and wanted her to explain why he’d try to con us like that! She had no answer, but she slapped the back of his head twice... She went inside, got her checkbook, came back and promised to write us a check for $600 if we didn’t call the cops. No way were we going to accept a check, so we told her cash only. She pulled my brother aside and told him he was on Probation for Grand Larceny, and if he was arrested again, he’d never see daylight again. He stood firm and told her to go get $500 out of the ATM and we’d leave, no questions asked. It took her 5 minutes to get back and she paid us. But that skinny bastard crook got away with one... Call it a lesson learned. Photos can be doctored, or dated. Details can be considered “puffery.” People LIE all the time to get you to show up and buy something.

M Hartlage Yeah, except the stupid old man that owns it would try and jack him around. Although, I’m sure Dale Jr. wouldn’t put up with it. Lol

Lori W that’s for sure. “Well it ran when I last parked it.”

@@loriw2661 Dale Jr would take shit from a anyone he is a nobody but a last name. Get real!

John Kyle guess u personally know him then to say that

R Meshr I don’t think junior would. Because it needs way to much work and I’m sure it isn’t that important to him. He likes cars and racing stuff. Not his dad’s shitty underwear for millions. Just saying. Love and respect the intimidator. But yeah.

Exactly, its a ragged out POS like a million others across the country.

It's worth around 28,000

in that condition he's lucky if he gets more then 20, yeah I know it was dales, but these things are like deprecating luxury cars as they age if not maintained they can be an incredibly expensive mess to clean up for an unsuspected buyer or not worth fixing at all, even if you go through and fix it all, it's still a 23yr old coach and it is going to have 23yr old coach problems.

Ayyy that’s my grandpa 😂

Yeah and around $12k would be for the sentimental value of that $28k. Sad to see it in that shape. That is a piece of history that should be redone to its glory days and stored in a museum somewhere.

I agree. I don't think he quite knew what he was looking at. That motor turned right over thats the main thing.

@@robertm9848 It’s far from the main thing on a rig like this. This is not an old pickup truck 😂

Mark Bond We’re not looking at the same thing unless he’s changed it on a different place than I found it from. Still says 72 on there and he’s since added more pictures

Devonte Flowers I’d do it if i could afford to. It’s not the best use of my time or resources at the moment. Wish I could.

@@Stapleton42 it's always good to find a RV you can fix up

Devonte Flowers Any of them at this age will need work. Even the nicest ones lol

I am an honest man lol

The kid is just cocky and arrogant and knows nothing about it, he really thinks he needs to fix everything to drive... It needs one sensor for the ride height to tell the compressor "hey pump these rear bags up" and he could drive it, thinks the poor old guy needs to take 10 grand off for a interior door that doesnt latch and a cabinet drawer that needs its face glued back on, everything else works and the motor sounds very healthy, holds air pressure and the generator works, ok the exhaust tip fell off and he says its straightpiped and that it would be so expensive to fix, then says it might not be real because the owner doesnt have the original documents that dale signed at the dealership for it, whose gonna have those? at first i kinda liked him but he was a jerk to the poor old guy who thought he could fix it but couldnt and who fell trying to help this joke out.

Morpheen999 He came for a tour, he wasn’t going to buy it

From the perspective of a person who knows nothing about high line coaches that's an easy perspective to have. Which is exactly what happened to this guy and why the coach is a mess

Once I read the service records and saw possible frame damage yeah I wasn't to keen on buying it. I was there for two days and this video is 28 minutes long. You're only seeing the tip of the iceberg here.

This millenial didnt have a clue in the slightest , we got almost 150k miles out of our motorhome tires my x used to change school bus tires that hauled kids around most of the time the bus would get sold before the tires were changed. The kid shouldnt own such a beautiful piece of history if hes that clueless he was obviously looking for a free motorhome so he could try and clean it up and resell it for big money.. free free free its all todays kids know..possible frame damage in other words you dont know how to properly inspect to define weither it does or doesnt have frame damage I can tell you right now im no expert either but we owned many prevost motor homes that unit wouldnt have even rolled as straight as it did if any type of real damage was present. Im glad a dealer bought it up for 30k and now hes gone through it and wants 76k with 225k miles our pusher went 550k before needing a rebuild so its half way through its life. Somebody will get a great home for the winter for modest money. Its a lot less than the 500k average for a prevost or american eagle.

Yeah especially seeing that on a motor coach. I can understand 1 or 2 like it was a blow out and a quick fix on the fly. None matching is just neglect. Replacing the very minimum.

I was an owner operator trucker all my life, once while waiting for a road service to come fix my rig at the Scale house in KY, I was talking to the DOT inspector waiting for his next Level 1 inspection victim. I asked him, how do you pick one of the crowd to inspect? His answer, clutter all on top of the dashboard and miss matched drive tires. Dead giveaway on shoddy maintnence he said....

Rob ! It said “in great condition” in his ad. Word for word 😂

Thanks man!

Thanks man. You know the deal!

Long time RCR coach driver Steve Ramey already vouched for it!

You’re totally right. Like knowing what he did say just makes you wonder about all the rigged up stuff he didn’t bring up...

I had inspected several older coaches of the same age before this and none were this bad

Mark Bond Single slide?

It did. To a guy in New Hampshire. He actually keeps me up to date with the restoration. Really cool guy and he’s the right man for the job

Cool

@@Stapleton42Glad to hear that it's not still rotting away in the desert. So did he let on as to how much the old fart got him for?

Man he must have had some killer stories. I plan to visit the newell plant in the near future here.

Big Tim's Trucking LLC Yep it’s a mess. Air leaks everywhere. Frame damage. Just not worth it

@@Stapleton42 How can i get in touch with you about where this is located?

Jimbo diggs drove this one for dale

Alaska Railroad Dale has been a role model of mine as long as I’ve been able to remember things. I think if there’s anything to be learned from his story is that the positive impact of our actions can live far beyond our physical lives. That’s a true legacy. Almost 20 years later and the man is still inspiring people. That’s just awesome.

@@Stapleton42 i never changed drivers after his death. Everyone changed to jr. Thats good, but i forever remained true to our buddy SR. My house walls and shelves will always remind me of that. There plastered in chevy and Dale Earnhardt sr.😊

Tim Gilbert Yup lol. This generator hadn’t been started in two years. He fiddled with it to get it going. Then once he shut it off it wouldn’t start again 😂

Russell Pottenger I offered to make a deposit and he said it wasn’t necessary. I never heard from him again on the drive out there since he fell down after our phone call.

@@Stapleton42 I think what he meant was there's no need cause nobody else wants it, cause they know its in aweful shape

We did get one and it’s much better. Check out the motorhome stuff playlist on the channel to see it!

Texas

That’s my grandpa

River Rat Productions You’re right lol I didn’t even notice that. At the time I was so excited you have no idea. This experience was basically like when you finally get the hot girls phone number and quickly find out she’s an airhead 😂

@@Stapleton42 Or a man

I have a feeling this guy was the sucker that fell in love with it being Earnhardt's coach and scooped it up from the Florida owner. Now 2 years later, his wife is tired of the broken down eyesore that he overpaid for and just wants it gone. But dude is too attached because it was Dale's and he thinks that brings some sort of huge value. If Dale won the Daytona 500 driving that thing, sure, it would have a premium. But the fact that Dale took an occasional dump in it, doesn't make it all that valuable.

I said it was red before I had gotten there and seen it was only the cover. Dude told me it was red and only sent me one picture.

Glad to help!!

RVing with Andrew Steele Thanks bro cant wait until you get our interview up 💪🏻

It should be soon! I can’t wait to make videos about it when I get one

@@Stapleton42 I would be watching

Chris Boggs Would be cooler at the RCR museum next to real Earnhardt raced vehicles and his old hauler

Tim McCann He should have planned a little better before even listing it for sale. Made no mention of the slide out not working in the description let alone any of that other stuff.

What were you expecting to pull up to? A 23 old year piece of perfection??? Hell I could've told you before you left and saved you a trip that that wasnt gonna be the case.

just as easy as you were right is just as easy as you couldve been wrong lol

When I found this one it had just been listed and I didn’t want to risk someone buying it out from under me. So I wasted no time on getting out there. I hit the road 30 minutes after I talked to the guy on the phone

@@Stapleton42 I know you had high hopes and were disappointed when you got there and saw the condition but it's mostly on you, bro. You're the one that knew nothing about it and jumped out on the road in 30 minutes. I've done it. You win some, you lose some. I've just never driven 1200 miles to see something. It pains me enough to drive 2 hours and come back home.

No lol that's just a coincidence

So I wasn't the only one thinking that.

I don’t have any pictures but he has told me about what he’s doing

I’m still butthurt about this 😂 the one I ended up buying looks cooler I think but the story behind it is nowhere near as interesting