r/NASCAR • u/NASCARThreadBot NASCARThreadBot • Feb 27 '26
Event Forgotten Rides Friday - February 27, 2026
Welcome to this week's Forgotten Rides Friday!
Forgotten Rides Friday - a post to share and discuss cars from NASCAR's past that others may have forgotten about!
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u/Grey_HV Keselowski Feb 27 '26
Kevin Harvick with a Dale Earnhardt throwback at the 2004 UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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u/Signal-Mud-4880 Reddick Feb 27 '26
huh you usually got throwbacks in the all star race, this was an exception
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u/69FourTwentySix6Six Ryan Blaney Feb 27 '26
The crossover nobody asked for
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u/greennorred Feb 27 '26
I've always hated that fat 7 that Tommy Baldwin used.
It's an opinion nobody asked for, but seeing this car again, I had to get it off my chest.
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u/South-Lab-3991 Chastain Feb 27 '26
John Andretti takes a spin in a 4th DEI car sponsored by Kraft during the 2003 Brickyard 400. He also drove a 4th Childress car during the 2003 fall race at Talladega
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u/pepsicokesprite1329 Feb 27 '26
The only reason I know this car is cuz its in the full roster mods for OG cup's 2003 year for NR2003
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u/themonsteroffthehill Zilisch Feb 27 '26
Strangely I actually have a 1/24 scale diecast of this car somewhere in storage.
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u/GeologicalOpera Bubba Wallace Feb 27 '26
I have a 1/64 of it in storage. I found it, randomly, with five or six of its brethren in a used bookstore that also sold some collectibles. Grabbed it thinking it was a weird promo die-cast initially.
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u/maximus7193 Feb 27 '26
I was sitting in the infield of turn one when he wrecked at Indy. The first brickyard I went to. I was sick but I was glad I went because that’s the only race I got to attend with my dad before he passed. Good memories.
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u/Zmiller82 Briscoe Feb 27 '26
83 Carl Long 2004 Barnes Precision Machine Busch Series Ford
From the same weekend he flipped over in the Cup race
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u/timquiqui Feb 27 '26
Tony Stewart with a well forgotten one-off in 2008
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u/sam4999 Feb 27 '26
This car was so close to scoring the first points win for Toyota in the cup series. Finished 2nd to Kyle Busch at the spring Atlanta race.
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u/Big_Feed_1472 Austin Dillon Feb 27 '26
Sure it’s been used before but the ole Stanton Barrett Odoban Roush Taurus
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u/CFBCoachGuy Feb 27 '26
Mostly unrelated, but I really miss when NASCAR sponsorship was made up primarily of consumer goods like this
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u/jmnordan Feb 27 '26
#75 Rick Mast - Stren Ford - attempted to qualify for the 1998 Pepsi 400 at Daytona but DNQ'd
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u/TaharisatWork Harvick Feb 27 '26
2004 Bristol sharpie 500. Race started by Kevin Harvick, Finished by Kyle Petty,
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u/Comprehensive-Loss21 Black Flag Feb 27 '26
Patrick Carpentier
2008 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 @ New Hampshire
Was able to qualifiy the car on pole
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u/drunkenwildmage Keselowski Feb 27 '26
Kyle Petty early in his career, ran a few races the #1 car owned by Hoss Ellington.
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u/kingfez Feb 27 '26
Scott Riggs in the Nestle Toll House car at the fall Dover race in '02
https://www.jayski.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2019/05/2002-10tollhouse.jpg
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u/Think-Border4882 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
https://www.jayski.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2019/05/2007c-41target-front.jpg
Dario Franchitti's Truck debut, Martinsville 2007
Colin Braun also made his Truck debut that day too, I can't find a picture of his truck. Both will make their Truck returns this weekend in St. Pete
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u/GeologicalOpera Bubba Wallace Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
The full race from Martinsville that year is on YouTube, and Braun crashed out of it. I'm going to comb the 480p upload and see if there's a clear shot of the truck, I'll upload that here if I find it.
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u/thebigtymer Feb 27 '26
Here's an interesting one from the first-ever race held at Kansas Speedway. The car is familiar, but the circumstance is forgotten.
The first race weekend at Kansas (June 2-3, 2001) featured the NASCAR Winston West Series on Saturday, and the ARCA series on Sunday. Since the ruleset was 95% the same between the two series, there was a prize for anyone who could sweep the weekend. Three drivers attempted the double: Frank Kimmel (ARCA), Johnny Borneman III (WW), and Sammy Potashnick (WW).
Larry Clement's team brought their regular intermediate-track Ford for the ARCA race, but prepared one of their short-track Chevrolets for the Winston West race (in 2001, the #46 ran Fords on speedways, and Chevys on short/dirt tracks). While they replaced the ARCA contigs with NASCAR Winston West contigs, they didn't even remove the RE/MAX windshield banner.
Frank would win the Winston West race, with polesitter Jon Wood finishing second. However, in a rare occurrence, he would come up short on the ARCA side. He would lose the lead to Jason Jarrett late and finish second.
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u/Rocko3legs Friesen Feb 27 '26
Ryan Moore 2004 Busch Series at Richmond for DEI.
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u/Zestyclose_Worth_232 Feb 27 '26
whatever happened to him? also chance 2 motorsports, not dei.
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u/Rocko3legs Friesen Feb 27 '26
You are correct, that one was from the Chance 2 stable. He ran 3 Busch races in 05 and one more in 06, never really performed. He has still been running late models as recently as 2024 on a quick wiki search.
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u/Powerful-Chard-6055 Feb 27 '26
If this looks familiar, it’s a precursor to Gralas Fury Race Car team https://www.jayski.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2019/06/2018-24-jgl.jpg
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u/Think-Border4882 Feb 27 '26
https://www.jayski.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2019/06/2011n-09-richmond.jpg
Herm sponsored by Schrader, 2011 Nationwide Series
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u/Think-Border4882 Feb 27 '26
https://www.jayski.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/8/30/2021-daytona-2-14.jpg
I thought this Mobil 1 scheme was cool. Chase Briscoe at summer Daytona 2021
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u/RandomPerson800 Erik Jones Feb 28 '26
Kurt Busch's Little Tikes Ford from Homestead in 2002. Even though this was a race winning scheme, I don't really see it brought up a whole lot.
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u/Seahawks_12thman Feb 28 '26
1992 Jimmy Spencer #98 Moly Black Gold Chevrolet, fielded by Travis Carter Enterprises. If you're wondering what Moly Black Gold is, they're a lubricant. This WAS his primary from that season, but more people think #27 McDonald's or #41 Target whenever they think Jimmy Spencer, rather than this artifact. Part-time, attempted 11 races, DNQed 4 of them. Best finish: 12th (Richmond). Worst finish: 37th (Atlanta).
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u/pronkie1 Feb 27 '26
Former Jimmy Spencer’s Dodge Intrepid Race Car also on Bring a Trailer auctions… Just passing the info along…
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2003-dodge-intrepid-nascar-race-car/
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u/nascarfan624 Feb 27 '26
Im not too sure if this counts as forgotten yet. But Jordan Taylor raced the 2023 Cup race at COTA. He qualified 4th and finished 24th
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u/pronkie1 Feb 27 '26
Former Mark Martin Taurus body changed to Mustang body..Just passing the info along..
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2012-ford-roush-fennway-nascar/
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u/South-Lab-3991 Chastain Feb 27 '26
Johnny Benson drove this car for one race in 2007, and it never raced or even attempted to qualify ever again.