Historic NASCAR Race Cars Up Close! International Motorsports Hall of Fame Museum Tour (Talladega) 

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Imagine if you were the one to get Theresa to open up and share some stories and things of Dale Sr . That video would be solid GOLD . She would be beloved if she opened up . I don’t think many of us really realize what she lost and went thru . Try losing the love of your life and that’s a small glimpse into her pain

Red Farmer is one of the most iconic legendary drivers I know, from short tracks, to Nascar, to the tragedies of the Allison family, the man life us unreal

Walked that museum several times with my dad. Talladega was our yearly trip. Haven’t been to Dega since 2016. That was out last time going due to my dad passing in 2017. Taladega Superspeedway,the museum,and the short track are all bucket list things to do. That track means so much to me. I always felt home down there. Been there 11 times and each time it felt like the first time. It’s like a piece of me is left every time I had to leave.

Absolutely awesome video thank you. The Michael Waltrip car is amazing.

You guys did a great job with this tour! Id be losing my mind in the Dale Earnhardt section especially.

I recently went here this summer. I carried my 4 year old son there for the 1st time. That 8 car has quite the history it won the spring and fall race of 2002. I saw the car race in the spring of 2002 when he won. In 2004 I took a trip to DEI and got my picture made with the car in the museum at DEI when I was 18. When I went back to the hall of fame this summer I got my picture with me and my son in front of the car. He now has the diecast of that car. If you look closely to that car there’s no engine in it. That engine Dale Jr has it was gave to him by Richie Gilmore who was the engine builder for the 8 car during that time. The 31 Neil Bonnett car also has quite the history at Daytona and Talladega. I remember seeing that car qualify back in 93. I always thought it was a great looking car.

Thank you soooo much for showing Michael’s 15 car 😍🙌🏽

I stopped by the IMHOF museum in January 2020 and it was incredible. My two favorite things to see where Bobby Allison's 1988 Daytona 500 winner and Buddy Arrington's #67 Chrysler Imperial. The 1988 Daytona 500 was the first race I saw on TV. I was four years old and watched it, mesmerized, at my grandparents' house. I still remember seeing Bobby and Davey finished 1 - 2. Being and old Mopar fan I always appreciated that Buddy stuck with them all the way through 1985, so seeing his Imperial was a real treat. Very few Dodge/Chrysler cars ran after the 1981 downsize so it's a really rare example for the museum to have. I even got a bit under the car to take pictures of the suspension. It had the old Chrysler leaf spring/torsion bar setup and was one of the last cars to run in Cup with a suspension like that.

I love how Logan and Mitchell are preserving Nascar history. This is by far my favorite RU-vid channel. I will watch anything you upload, it's all great 👍

I absolutely love the vintage NASCAR content!!! I've watched just about every episode, and hearing some of the stories from the past by the ones who were there is very intriguing. Plus to see a lot of the tricks from the engine shops, and hearing the "reasons why those rules are written" stories. Can't wait to see the next episode!!!

Very cool! I was all over this video when it got posted today! Mitch, you & Logan have surely done such a wonderful job of documenting many facets of the stock car racing scene and NASCAR, it always rocks! Appreciate you two as always, and I'm there with you guys in anything motorsports/mechanical/technical related! Thank you for yet another cool video and keep up the great work. I sure enjoy seeing this stuff!

Your knowledge just blows me away . Thank you for sharing it.

I just watched on old episode of the TNN show "Inside Winston Cup Racing", and it showed Michael Waltrip's Bristol BGN crash. Eerie coincidence. This museum looks fantastic and I really appreciate you taking the time to share it with us. Great stuff!

I love these videos! Honestly, I appreciate commentary from both of you because your passion for this stuff shines through it. I'll definitely have to check this museum out someday. SPEAKING of rare cars. If y'all ever come across anything relating the the Chevy Beretta's short-lived foray into NASCAR, please film it!

This place holds great memories for me! Would go to one or both of the Talladega races almost every year with my dad. Tomorrow will be 12 years since he died…. We took a trip once just to the museum and were about the only people around. Dad put me inside several of these cars and took my picture. Lol. Sure he wasn’t supposed to, but now it’s such a cool memory. Thanks for all the content and the great work y’all do!

Thanks Guys! I have heard about this place! So cool your showing us! Hope you guys had the happiest of Thanksgiving!

You guys should do a tour of the history of trucking museum at i80 truck stop at Walcott ia

I walked through that museum about 10 years ago. I was at the speedway that day for the Dale Jarret driving experience they had going then. We drove up the night before so we were about 3hrs early for the driving part. Which in itself was awesome. We drove with 5 of us on the track at a time and I had a lap of over 170mph. Hardest part for me was getting out of the pit box and rolling. I stalled it twice lol. But, that did not take anything away from the intense, overwhelming feelings walking through the museum. So much to take in. I am sure it is larger now too. They even had a DeLorean there when i walked through it. Very cool you two went through there and were able to film.

Great video. Thanks for bringing us along.

After all these years,that Michael crash still is amazing

That 28 Texaco Havoline Ford looks pretty sweet in that museum.. I love that museum it has a variety of old and new stuff race cars and vehicles in general.. that Michael Waltrio car holy moly

When I want to watch quality NASCAR videos I'm come to this channel before any other channel. Dude I love when museums take cars right off the track/victory lane and still has the dirt/tire marks all over it. I hate seeing them cleaned up

I've been to that museum during the spring Talladega race in 2021 and 22. Those cars are so cool. To know the story behind them and that these people actually drove them and you are standing next to them.

There’s a good video on RU-vid about the Ricky Craven flip from 96 with Jerry Punch. It’s real good to listen to the Dale Jr Download after hearing about how hurt he really got in that wreck.

Got to see some really cool cars. Thanks for taking me along.

The Waltrip crash @ Bristol was nuts. I’ve been to the museum to see the car & pictures or video just doesn’t do it justice!! Michael is a tall gent & the fact he walked away is crazy let alone not being killed!! Great vid y’all, keep em comin

Thanks for tour. Good chance I will never make it there but you made it happen for me. Thanks

thanks for showing us that I’ve been to that track many times, but never have gone into the museum

I like seeing all of the old race cars 👍 I love Michael Waltrip 💗 I'm Michael's biggest fan ❤️

"Sounds like a real Saab story".LOL!!! Nice video. They've added many things since I was there in 2002. The Tiny Lund 1964 #55 Ford Galaxie is one of my favorites there. I saw him race it back in the day as my first NASCAR race was in 1963. He was sponsored by Hallmark Homes of Augusta, Georgia, and I lived in Augusta for a while back in the day. The Bobby Allison airplane and the speedboat deserve a better display and care.

The Michael Bristol crash car was built by a friend of mine Ronnie Silver in his shop in Asheville,NC. Michael was always thankful to Ronnie for building a car that kept him safe. I remember seeing it live on tv that day. To see Michael sitting in a golf cart minutes later being interviewed on ESPN was mind blowing.

This is the content RU-vid deserves. What an amazing place for fans of years gone by in NASCAR. And that Waltrip crash car...wow. And to think this video seems to showcase a small amount of what's there. Great stuff.

Newell is what brought me to your channel. Touring these museums is keeping me here. :)

That number nine Thunderbird was a really creative build. It deserves an episode of it’s own. Awesome aero for Awesome Bill.

Attending a race and touring that museum are bucket list items for me. Thanks for sharing y'alls experience there!

Hey thanks for the memories! Great video

I love the interview with MW after the Bristol crash he said " I have some contusions and a bit of confusion"

FREAKIN' AWESOME GUYS!!! Not a week or 2 goes by that I'm not recommending your channel to others. Way back in '82 ( I was 20 yrs old ) through '84, I had one of the sweetest '66 SWB Chevy PU trucks ( full custom cab/fleet-side bed ) you ever saw, that had those chrome steel Broad Custom mag wheels. The truck had totally been restored less than 2 yrs before I bought it from a co-worker. His brother-in-law restored it. He replaced the original 283 with a small journal 327, double-hump heads w/2.02 valves, double-roller timing chain, Holley 4" intake & 750 single pumper, headers & duel exhaust with cherry bombs. Truck still had the original 3.73 posi rear-end. He painted it with the original factory Nassau Blue metal flake paint they used to paint some of the Corvettes from that era. The thin panels between the split chrome down the sides was white, making them look kind of like "racing stripes" on top of that beautiful blue paint. Looked like it belonged parked right next to a '66 Stingray of the same color & stripes. Still had the factory options sticker inside the glovebox door, revealing FACTORY AIR ( Chevy put the AC in the dash plus 4 globe/socket vents, the truck didn't come with an ashtray in it, must've been custom ordered, but of course the AC compressor was absent from the 327 hot rodded engine ), panoramic cab ( big rear glass ), and factory tinted glass NOT "tinted film". He even restored the wood in the bed. My room-mate and I painted the interior steel dash/roof/doors, etc, with the closest matched paint we could find. The truck was gorgeous and ran real strong too. Lord, I was a fool for selling it way back then. To this day, I have yet to see another one in person that came with factory AC in the dash.

How do y'all manage to keep 1 upping yourself.....Another excellent tour of history.

Love, love, love your videos! Your content are the drivers and race teams I grew up watching in the 1970s and 1980s! Keep it coming!

I freaking love this channel. The information you guys find out and the things you get to see are so cool. You're exploring all these time capsules of a great era in the motorsport we all love. A coworker and I are constantly talking about your videos, so I'm ordering him and I sticker packs for our toolboxes. Thanks for doing what you do. PS! You guys should come see some racing at Highland Rim Speedway or Nashville Fairgrounds next year. Both in the Nashville area.

The Piper Aircraft Dodge from Nascar Thunder 2003 and 2004 which was used for Bobby Allison's representation in the game also had those colors on that plane.

I live in Bristol and I was at the race the day Michael hit the wall in the Kool-Aid car, after he hit the wall it was so eerie, the crowd went quiet, I’ll never forget you could hear a pin drop ! Everyone thought he was dead !

Thanks for sharing. I remember all these cars . Good to know we’re there at.

We were there last year when the Dale Jr and waltrip cars were unveiled Mikey was in the museum walking around talking to ppl very cool to see him go revisit the Bristol crash car I love the fact they had other forms of racing cars inside not just nascar

Just seeing floor pans in a stock car is awesome 👍

Definitely part of NASCAR’s 75th anniversary celebration !

20:00 The fact that Mikey only got a slight headache and had a decent career after that crash is nothing but a miracle.

I was there in 97. Thank You for taking me back. You guys are the best.

That's amazing the historical value of the cars all in one museum. Wow!

Thanks you for this!!!! I live in California and I don’t get to see stuff like this here wish I can go and see it in person one

How Michael survived that is amazing. Car was a pretzel. And thanks to the museum. Sound etc. Neat to see unrestored cars in the video. Thank you.

I'm 35yo and a massive nascar fan from NewZealand love your work team thanks for sharing this content. 🙌 appreciated.

This by far is the video I’ve been waiting for!! So much history in that Museum! You guys did a great job on this one! Going to this museum is on my bucket list! I need to see that Bill Elliott thunderbird in person

Awesome place, lots of history in that building. Hope that you get to a video with the Allison's that would be a great video 😃😃😃👍👍👍🤞🤞🤞

I live 10 minutes away from the track, I visit this place once a year and it never gets old! Do It for Dale!

Love the video thank you for showing this stuff I live in Canada so it is hard for me to go to these places and get to see the history there so thank you again

Just now watching, I’ll probably never get there, but you bringing it to us is awesome. Thank you Mitchell for all these videos on the history of NASCAR. It’s never boring. I’m really excited about you going back to the track and sending us racing content.

Hi Mitch and Logan Thank you for the video. I was surprised there were not more superbirds there. Wouldn't be cool just to jump in one and drive it.

i can never get enough of these videos, they always seem to end to soon hahaha

I love painted chassis' too. Definitely cool of Teresa to loan out the cars.

I don't know I missed this 12 days ago,but sure glad I saw this. This is epic!!

I really love seeing all these old Nascars.. I grew up in the 90s watching most of if not all these cars. My grandpa had an old oval shaped rug, and he'd have the nascar races on and I'd be watching, listening and racing my little Hotwheels diecast Nascars around his oval rug.

I know I comment this all the time so here I go again…Another great video on racing history ! keep up the great work Mitchell and Logan love your channel !

Love the video I also would love to see you guys do a video at the Winston museum at Winston Salem

The Bobby Allison gold Miller 1988 Daytona 500 car has to be one of the best looking paint schemes ever.

Awesome content.. I wish Nascar was as relatable now.

I remember watching that race with Michael Waltrip. It was crazy seeing him hit that open wall.

Man it would be really cool to see some more DEI stuff. Alot of history in that museum. The Richard Petty car wpuld have to be one of my favorite, got goosebumps seeing it knowing he raced in that exact car. Thanks for the content guys, keep kickin ass.

You guys are awesome keep it up!

Great vidio!! I did not know that Scott Stovall (the 0 car) was in there I know Scott very well and worked on cars that ran against him in ARCA and him and my home town track Bear Field Speedway in Fort Wayne Indiana that is now closed. Scott is now a truck driver and before I retired I also worked on the truck he drove. I am very surprised that Teresa donated cars to the museum it doesn't sound like something she would do But for the sake of history I am very glad she did. Thank you for the video Great job!!!

I would most definitely get lost in this museum for sure, love the video, keep them up

If anyone's thinking about paying that museum a visit, plan to spend a lot of time there - I've been there twice, one time making a whole day of it, and I still don't feel like I've seen it all. Also, take a moment to talk to the lady at the front desk, she knows her stuff and she's got some great stories!

Been there many times. That AMC matador was a bad mamajamma ! The white Trans am pace car outside ,Elmo Langley took me and my dad around the track in 79 w.o.t. .

Great video, brings back memories from my visit there back in 1997. Good to see they have added cars to the museum over the years. Glad to see that a lot of cars are still there, that I saw in person.

Can’t get enough of this stuff! Good job Mitchell & Logan!

Joey should run a throw back to the Fireball 22, to pay homage to the 1962 season! That would pull some old fans heart strings! We need more history pumped back into the sport! Thanks for your part! Taking the reins and leading the way! You guys may not know it but you are becoming part of the sport by video logging the history and stories that would be lost in time! You are earning your spot in the hall in my opinion! Keep up the hard work and we will be behind you every day!

Bro, I was there in 2017. No DEI stuff. Thank you for sharing and I hope Teresa lets more of the cool history of DEI out so people can see it. Thanks again!

18:37 I have a picture of me with this Davey Allison car from back in 1992, it looks exactly the same as it did 30 years ago.

God damn I love your videos man. I actually saw you at the Pennzoil 400 this year. I was on the track during driver intros and you were across the way. Wanted to say hi but didn’t want to bother you. Keep these videos coming.

I love your museum tour videos! So cool. Thank you for sharing!

I have that jet black attack Dale Sr shirt, it is mostly faded now. I was 14 at Dale’s last win that year. We had tickets but someone gave my dad better ones so we tried to sell the worse seats on site. 2 guys in their 20s and a little buzzed already wanted to buy them but didn’t have the cash with them and needed to use a ATM, but the ATM’s were only inside the admissions gate. We let them use the tickets to get in, they asked where our seats were and asked who my favorite driver was. We told them and they set off to find the ATM, we went to our seats. About 30 mins later they came to us with the money and gave me that shirt for trusting them enough to get in the gate to get the money. One of the things I’ll never forget about talladega.

Love the videos, they are RAW and perfect!

Good stuff guys! Been over twenty years since I’ve been to that museum.

Outstanding Video Again ! I could spend many hours at this place. How many Aero Coupe's were there ? Plenty of great history and racing memory's parked and on display . The sad part is that plenty of our hero's are gone, not all by racing crashes either. Keep up the great work finding the history that a bunch of us remember.

Great video, excited you were filming with Mark again!! Hope you both had a nice Thanksgiving!

We are from Michigan, my son traveled there and love it!! Now his mother wants to go!!

This is the kind of stuff I like. As you said back when stock cars were stock cars. I have toured the museum at Darlington a bunch of times down through the years. They have a big collection of illegal items found on some famous cars.

I went to Darlington like 20 years ago with my grandma who lived in SC. It was the middle of the summer and it was during a weekday and they had the gate open right before turn 3 and visitors were allowed to walk on the track. It was super cool being 14 years old and getting to actually lay down on the track and get my picture taken. They had a little museum there as well and if I remember correctly they had DW’s number 17 wrecked Daytona car in there..pretty neat. Thanks for all of these videos!

I’ve been here a few times, and what I love about it is that every single time I go they add something new. I know this footage is over a year old but I hope the new stuff, like the DEI cars, are there when I go back in hopefully 2023! I haven’t been there since pre-COVID. I’ll probably cry if I see that Dale Jr car because I grew up playing NASCAR Thunder 2003 and that #8 car was always up front, especially at Daytona and Talladega!

We only get to see the end result, you guys must spend weeks getting to these posts, everyone is superb. Thank you for your efforts, thank you for posting..!! Paul🇬🇧

I've got to say that even though I'm not even remotely a Cup racing fan I'm a huge history fan and the stuff you're doing is great.

That blue Buddy Baker Charger must have been making an insane amount of power if they didn’t care about taking all that extra weight out.

Thanks! Been watching since the pfi Dyno... You have stayed honest and just do cool sh*t. You know the deal!!

#9 car literally blew the field away that day. What an awesome race and performance by awesome Bill from Dawsonville!

Another great video of a place I would not ever had seen. Thanks guys.

I love this content! I am very grateful to her for letting those cars be there. Seeing the tech tape still on there was really cool!! I hope to see a video from DEI sometime that would be amazing

When I was in highschool I worked for a company that built the wheels for Bobby Allison's cars in the mid 70s. I try to visit the museum every couple years since I only live an hour and a half away. Thanks for another great video!

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