Barry Hall raced this car one time at Talladega on August 6, 1977 in an ARCA race. He qualified 7th, but on lap 7 he lost a piston and blew the engine, finishing 29th.
You mentioned that Bob Davis drove the charger. In 1969 Bob bought a charger from Lefty Robinson ,Shawna’s father. He had been running USAC at a road course in Memphis. Bought the hauler also which broke down in Huntsville Alabama on the way to Ft Lauderdale. Myself and his son Gary went to Huntsville and I drove it to Ft Lauderdale. It was a Norm Nelson car that Jim Hurtubise won Atlanta with. Bob put a new charger body on it. Randy Tissot was supposed to drive it,but when we got to Daytona for some reason Bobby Mausgrover got in it. That car made very few cup races and one ARCA race at Daytona. Dick May,Frank Warren and the owner Bob Davis were some of the drivers. In 1972 it was reskinned to a Plymouth and was repainted white and sponsored by Steel Fabricators. When it was a charger it was yellow and sponsored by Artcraft Metals. In 1972 Bobs son Gary died and he moved to NC. I lost track of that car. I don’t think that this is that car and I don’t think that the drivers you mentioned drove it. I have been to the NASCAR archives in Daytona,and info is very limited on that time frame
Wow that's a fascinating story and great information! The information I have was what was told in the auction bill. Like you mentioned I found next to nothing to corroborate any of it. The only photo I found if the car wearing #84 had H.C. Blackwell Kenworth as a sponsor on the rear quarter panel. I did find record of 1974 Talladega Superspeedway Winston Cup Series race #21. Buster Davis team; Johnny Ray driver and Blackwell Kenworth listed as sponsor. Sounds like the car you mentioned may have raced in the same time frame. Maybe even raced together who knows... very cool to ponder. What an exiting time in racing history. Thank you for sharing your experience! I absolutely love hearing accounts like this.
stevenbuis4490 as i'm sure you remember,in that timeframe (1960's-late 70's) a race car "hauler" like you mention buying from Mr. Robinson was most always an open trailer with a fabric car cover on the race car, pulled by a box van etc. An interesting family "tale" from my uncle who was a HPD (Huntsville) officer then & told the story of officers noticing a "NASCAR" just being left overnight, broken down, in a VERY sketchy area of Huntsville known for "chop shops. Night shift tried to keep tabs & eventually "reps" of the owner showed in daylight, were briefly interrogated & eventually proved legit. Before they left they showed officers inside a WELL equipped box van with everything including an engine, transmission, rear gears etc.
Saw this when it was listed and love these old stock cars. Really wanted to bid but tough with a live auction and I'm on the West Coast. Very reasonable price for the car.
The racecar could be authenticated by pettys garage which still exists today. If that car was brought down to level cross north carolina They would be able to identify if the car is real or not . Richard Petty's crew chief Dale inman is still alive. That racecar can be authenticated. There will be tell tale signs if it's Is original Petty Enterprise built Racecar.
I felt they missed the opportunity to build excitement for this car. I feel it's cloudy past put a damper on that. In regard to your comment, I feel as though he's not pursuing the craft. Thanks for watching. If you haven't seen my older videos, I've recently done two Higgins auctions. It's is one of my favorite auction company's.
I think the guy that owned the company Bearfinder which was a radar detector was from Dayton Ohio , he had a cup car in the mid 70 early 80s dont remember his name but he was a friend of my father in law
Ahh sold for 12 grand I guess that is reasonable. Hopefully the new owner won't try to pass it off as a Petty car which I doubt it is without researching it but I bet they try...
@@lewinsmodelspeedshop Unless there is some sort of nascar vintage race series that lays out ridiculous amounts of cash prizes that I havent heard about, the only thing that car is good for is white trash yard art. You know, the type that wins a multi million dollar lottery and paints their doublewide Petty blue and sports a static display of a useless race car in the weedy front yard .🙄
Doesn't look like a Petty Enterprises car to me. Cage and other fabrications look very amateurish to me. plus there is no "Petty bar" in it which was a staple by then at Petty Enterprises. And under the hood looks nothing like Petty cars...not even close. Every old Mopar race car that comes along these days the owners claim them to be built by Petty Enterprises to increase the value and hard to prove otherwise.. I would think if the Pettys were selling race cars they would have some kind of ID number on them so I would be skeptical on that claim without research. Can't go by "Well my brother in law's uncle's sister had a boyfriend that use to work with a guy that knew Richard Petty's great aunt who's mother lived next to a person that got Richards autograph at the end of the 1975 Daytona 500 and asked him about some Dodge Charger that was sitting in a barn someplace"... don't work that way. But I see regardless the buyers bought it hook, line and sinker...
Terrible auctioneer! Starts way to high then begs, won’t take $ 100 increment to walk the price up. No cadence to excite the crowd the dwells way too long. This was hard to watch
Where did you find the pic of the Dodge Ramp Truck with the number 84 on the back? I've owned that truck for many years. It was originally the Bobby Yowell Pro Stock drag racing hauler.
@@WoodyFixit Like Richard Petty's 73 Charger with the 426, one of his favorite cars and believe 73 was the last year the teams were allowed to run big block engines.
@@WoodyFixit The cage and inside fabrication looks too sloppy to be a Petty Enterprises car... welds, from what I can see, were done by an only very average welder not by a professional race chassis builder. I built a couple of Mopar dirt street stocks that looked better than that Charger years ago...
They banned the 426 Hemi because they kept winning and Ford/gm were complaining.. cool Fact..today and always in Top Fuel,Top Alcohol Drag Racing Ford/gm/Toyota always used a Chrysler HEMI they do today and always,they slap a Ford/gm/Toyota name on the valve cover but it is a Chrysler 426 HEMI,yes reproduction blocks and bigger cubic inches/bored out but its 100% MOPAR..
Hopefully it would have the engine! That alone would bring more that this car would around here. Those fellows down under don't mess around when it comes to engines and their horsepower!
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Should be in a museum!
I agree it that would be much better that locked hidden in a barn. Maybe it can have a new engine too!
Barry Hall raced this car one time at Talladega on August 6, 1977 in an ARCA race.
He qualified 7th, but on lap 7 he lost a piston and blew the engine, finishing 29th.
That's nuts doing 200 at Talladega in that tank! When stock cars were pretty much modified stock cars!
Holly crap batman 😳 put that in my garage 😳
You mentioned that Bob Davis drove the charger. In 1969 Bob bought a charger from Lefty Robinson ,Shawna’s father. He had been running USAC at a road course in Memphis. Bought the hauler also which broke down in Huntsville Alabama on the way to Ft Lauderdale. Myself and his son Gary went to Huntsville and I drove it to Ft Lauderdale. It was a Norm Nelson car that Jim Hurtubise won Atlanta with. Bob put a new charger body on it. Randy Tissot was supposed to drive it,but when we got to Daytona for some reason Bobby Mausgrover got in it. That car made very few cup races and one ARCA race at Daytona. Dick May,Frank Warren and the owner Bob Davis were some of the drivers. In 1972 it was reskinned to a Plymouth and was repainted white and sponsored by Steel Fabricators. When it was a charger it was yellow and sponsored by Artcraft Metals. In 1972 Bobs son Gary died and he moved to NC. I lost track of that car. I don’t think that this is that car and I don’t think that the drivers you mentioned drove it. I have been to the NASCAR archives in Daytona,and info is very limited on that time frame
Wow that's a fascinating story and great information! The information I have was what was told in the auction bill. Like you mentioned I found next to nothing to corroborate any of it. The only photo I found if the car wearing #84 had H.C. Blackwell Kenworth as a sponsor on the rear quarter panel. I did find record of 1974 Talladega Superspeedway Winston Cup Series race #21. Buster Davis team; Johnny Ray driver and Blackwell Kenworth listed as sponsor. Sounds like the car you mentioned may have raced in the same time frame. Maybe even raced together who knows... very cool to ponder. What an exiting time in racing history. Thank you for sharing your experience! I absolutely love hearing accounts like this.
stevenbuis4490 as i'm sure you remember,in that timeframe (1960's-late 70's) a race car "hauler" like you mention buying from Mr. Robinson was most always an open trailer with a fabric car cover on the race car, pulled by a box van etc. An interesting family "tale" from my uncle who was a HPD (Huntsville) officer then & told the story of officers noticing a "NASCAR" just being left overnight, broken down, in a VERY sketchy area of Huntsville known for "chop shops. Night shift tried to keep tabs & eventually "reps" of the owner showed in daylight, were briefly interrogated & eventually proved legit. Before they left they showed officers inside a WELL equipped box van with everything including an engine, transmission, rear gears etc.
@@WoodyFixit Buster was Gary’s nickname and I believe Johnny Ray did drive that car at least once
Saw this when it was listed and love these old stock cars. Really wanted to bid but tough with a live auction and I'm on the West Coast. Very reasonable price for the car.
The racecar could be authenticated by pettys garage which still exists today. If that car was brought down to level cross north carolina They would be able to identify if the car is real or not . Richard Petty's crew chief Dale inman is still alive. That racecar can be authenticated. There will be tell tale signs if it's Is original Petty Enterprise built Racecar.
I agree .I appreciate your insight. Thanks for your comment
That auctioneer is terrible. He doesn't even deserve that title actually.
I felt they missed the opportunity to build excitement for this car. I feel it's cloudy past put a damper on that. In regard to your comment, I feel as though he's not pursuing the craft. Thanks for watching. If you haven't seen my older videos, I've recently done two Higgins auctions. It's is one of my favorite auction company's.
I think the guy that owned the company Bearfinder which was a radar detector was from Dayton Ohio , he had a cup car in the mid 70 early 80s dont remember his name but he was a friend of my father in law
Lets start at 50K for a car that did basically nothing in its racing career! But I guess you cant start low and go high
With no motor!😅
You must know nothing about used race cars rollers.
@@lewinsmodelspeedshop Obviously neither do you...
Ahh sold for 12 grand I guess that is reasonable. Hopefully the new owner won't try to pass it off as a Petty car which I doubt it is without researching it but I bet they try...
@@lewinsmodelspeedshop Unless there is some sort of nascar vintage race series that lays out ridiculous amounts of cash prizes that I havent heard about, the only thing that car is good for is white trash yard art. You know, the type that wins a multi million dollar lottery and paints their doublewide Petty blue and sports a static display of a useless race car in the weedy front yard .🙄
Doesn't look like a Petty Enterprises car to me. Cage and other fabrications look very amateurish to me. plus there is no "Petty bar" in it which was a staple by then at Petty Enterprises. And under the hood looks nothing like Petty cars...not even close. Every old Mopar race car that comes along these days the owners claim them to be built by Petty Enterprises to increase the value and hard to prove otherwise.. I would think if the Pettys were selling race cars they would have some kind of ID number on them so I would be skeptical on that claim without research. Can't go by "Well my brother in law's uncle's sister had a boyfriend that use to work with a guy that knew Richard Petty's great aunt who's mother lived next to a person that got Richards autograph at the end of the 1975 Daytona 500 and asked him about some Dodge Charger that was sitting in a barn someplace"... don't work that way. But I see regardless the buyers bought it hook, line and sinker...
Thank you for commenting your thoughts.
Nah it's not a petty car but has history
Terrible auctioneer! Starts way to high then begs, won’t take $ 100 increment to walk the price up. No cadence to excite the crowd the dwells way too long. This was hard to watch
We had a tilt cab ford grain truck eerily similar to that flatbed.... I hated that old 68 truck.... sold for scrap, couldn't afford to fix the brakes
Sadly the brakes are usually what ends up doing a lot of old medium duty truck in. Just too costly or parts unavailable. Thanks for commenting Jim!
Where did you find the pic of the Dodge Ramp Truck with the number 84 on the back? I've owned that truck for many years. It was originally the Bobby Yowell Pro Stock drag racing hauler.
It was from one of the guys on the Bagatelle racing team that helped get the car from Florida
All it needs is the mighty 426. 😎
Very true! How cool would it be to hear it roar to life once again?!
@@WoodyFixit
Like Richard Petty's 73 Charger with the 426, one of his favorite cars and believe 73 was the last year the teams were allowed to run big block engines.
Exactly. And I was thinking to those questioning if it was a real Petty built car, well, a guy could always ask him! 😉
@@WoodyFixit The cage and inside fabrication looks too sloppy to be a Petty Enterprises car... welds, from what I can see, were done by an only very average welder not by a professional race chassis builder. I built a couple of Mopar dirt street stocks that looked better than that Charger years ago...
They banned the 426 Hemi because they kept winning and Ford/gm were complaining..
cool Fact..today and always in Top Fuel,Top Alcohol Drag Racing Ford/gm/Toyota always used a Chrysler HEMI they do today and always,they slap a Ford/gm/Toyota name on the valve cover but it is a Chrysler 426 HEMI,yes reproduction blocks and bigger cubic inches/bored out but its 100% MOPAR..
They should have brought it to Carlisle probably would have did better.
It went to Pennsylvania to the new buyer. Who knows, it may end up there. It will be interesting if we see more of it.
🏁 Very cool!!!!! 🏁
Thanks Tim! I got goosebumps when I first walked up on the car!
I think his name was Nelson Malik or something like that could have been one of his cars
If that was a ex aussi race car of that era it would be worth $250000 any day of the week 😂
Hopefully it would have the engine! That alone would bring more that this car would around here. Those fellows down under don't mess around when it comes to engines and their horsepower!
Cool charger!!
I agree! Hellcat swap would be cool in this!
@@WoodyFixit yes it would
Cool
I thought so too!
should have posted on interweb
Feel free to share!
Give you 5 bucks for the auctioneer
SOLD! 🪒😆
Being from Lancaster county PA where some of the best auctioneers are this dude is terrible. Must have been a long auction.
We have some really great Auctioneers in this area too. 😉
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That is not a petty built car
I'm not knowledgeable on the details but it has sparked debate. Some of it fairly heated. I just hope folks enjoy the video.
low ballers a bound
I agree. I'm not going below 500s: Goes to 50s 😜
Low ballers are gay
Worst auctioneer ever
Where in Ohio is this at
Northwest of Dayton
@@WoodyFixitthank you
Worst auctioneer I've ever seen
We have some really proud multi generational Auctioneers that clearly have a passion for their craft in this area. 😉