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Car of the Day: May 20, 2008; Team Caliber '03 Ford Taurus Stock Car
Topic Started: May 19 2008, 11:35 PM (608 Views)
jedimario
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Today's Car of the Day is Team Caliber's final Ford Taurus, featured with Ricky Rudd's Motorcraft paint scheme from the 2003 Bud Shootout. This scheme was created to celebrate Ford's centennial anniversary.

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The NASCAR edition of the Taurus was developed by the Penske Racing South group based in Mooresville, North Carolina. The first one was owned by Don Miller, the co-owner and manager of Penske Racing South. [64] The stock car Taurus made its debut to over 300 people, including news media, team representatives, and Ford drivers, on July 30, 1997 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, right before the Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


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You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taurus#Use_in_NASCAR

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This is one of my favorite NASCAR schemes, I've always loved silver and blue together.

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Those tampoes are amazing! Team Caliber nailed them.

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craftymore
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Really good looking interpretation of a modern NASCAR car in small scale. Tampos look right on This would be one of the last body styles that would be unique as all the current cars raced are the same style with different stickers. Kind of makes you long for the days of past.

Where did you find this casting at Robbie?
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jedimario
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This, along with my Carl Edwards Fusion, came straight from the souvenir trailers at the races.
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Support your local demo derby.

Cool pickup to always remember that day by. Thanks for the excellent pics Robbie.

Post 1,001 is in the books. YEAH! :D

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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Awesome! I had stopped collecting NASCAR pieces by this point, but even I admit I like this one! And the cool thing is this our second NASCAR cotd, and both have featured Ricky Rudd's rides. :thumbup:
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ivantt
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Caliber makes some of the best NASCAR diecasts, and I remember their 1/64 as being better than most other brands. They also make 'cheaper" versions for promo deals, but they do a good job all-around. Nice choice you show here.

I've got a few track-trailer cars myself, and they are always a better choice than what little selection you have nowdays at WM/KM/TRU/Target, etc., which are mainly the Winners Circle/Action select drivers.

The good old days of Racing Champions having almost every driver available at WM are long over, and as Crafty said about the Taurus, so are the days of the car bodies resembling their real counterpart.

Car of Tomorrow= plop in your brand engine and apply your number, and all else is the same. How exciting. But the same best teams still win the big races.

"Robbie," one question---did they sell this one in a padded box or tin because of the unique paint sheme? Was it part of a two car Ricky Rudd set? Sometimes Caliber does this.
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I'm fairly sure it come in a clamshell, and I'm certain it came by itself.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
ivantt
May 21 2008, 10:39 AM
The good old days of Racing Champions having almost every driver available at WM are long over, and as Crafty said about the Taurus, so are the days of the car bodies resembling their real counterpart.

Car of Tomorrow= plop in your brand engine and apply your number, and all else is the same. How exciting. But the same best teams still win the big races.

Exactly why I stopped collecting NASCAR- I gave up in 1998 when I couldn't get a whole field of drivers even between all three brands that (at the time) were available at retail (Hot Wheels, Action, and Racing Champions). Add to that the price almost doubled at around that time for the RC and HW offerings (the Actions were always way too expensive...), and I frankly gave up.

As for the racing today- common template cars on cookie cutter tracks driven by drivers who have all been cloned from Jeff Gordon. Talk about boring! Aero push? C'mon, give me a break! Give me the days of the Ford Thunderbird, Chevy Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix, etc. Give me Elliott vs Earnhardt, Waltrip vs Wallace, Petty vs Pearson.
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Swifty, because some cars don't qualify for races, there is always more than 42 cars or teams out there trying to get in a race. When RC was selling ALL the drivers and cars (probably close to 45 or 50 different cars), at a buck or 1.25 each, I wanted to make a 42 car field for a grandson, and after a few weeks of searching pegs, I was able to do so!! I don't know if there was any one race that actually had those particular 42 cars qualified, but they were all the same year issues, so it was quite possible and realistic. This was around 10 years ago. I wish I had bought TWO of each and made myself a diorama of the lineup!! :(
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Can you see what I'm saying?
I absolutely love this car!
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
ivantt
May 22 2008, 12:26 PM
Swifty, because some cars don't qualify for races, there is always more than 42 cars or teams out there trying to get in a race. When RC was selling ALL the drivers and cars (probably close to 45 or 50 different cars), at a buck or 1.25 each, I wanted to make a 42 car field for a grandson, and after a few weeks of searching pegs, I was able to do so!! I don't know if there was any one race that actually had those particular 42 cars qualified, but they were all the same year issues, so it was quite possible and realistic. This was around 10 years ago. I wish I had bought TWO of each and made myself a diorama of the lineup!! :(

At the time I used to hold races on my kitchen table and actually kept a point standings. I had managed to put together enough cars to race each year previously, but after 1997 Racing Champions drastically cut down on the number of available drivers, while Hot Wheels only had 20-something themselves. Unfortunately there was a lot of overlap with Hot Wheels and Racing Champions, while the Actions were harder to find, more expensive, and rolled like garbage.

Joe Ruttman, driving his 1993 Ford Thunderbird (Fina #20) won my last points championship in 1998 (using the '97 field of cars). I had approximately 50 cars trying to qualify for each race and every race had 44 starters (at the time 44 starters was possible at certain races on the West Coast if a Winston West provisional was awarded- I made that my standard field, and at least six cars went home from every race). Hot Wheels, Racing Champions, Action, Matchbox, Pit Row, and even RCCA all had cars represented.
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A Ford Taurus in small scale...still has a nice sound to it.
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craftymore
May 19 2008, 11:41 PM
This would be one of the last body styles that would be unique as all the current cars raced are the same style with different stickers.
Fortunately, 10 years on, this is no longer true! We're back to unique bodies and those identical bodies feel like ancient history. Chevrolet now runs a "Camaro" and Ford will be running a "Mustang" next year. I watched part of the All Star race and, dare I say, it was actually entertaining. They were using an experimental package with heavy aero and restrictor plates. I may have to swing by the track next weekend to catch some of the 600 to see how the normal cars run.
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Nice looking race car - for me too this was after I had pretty much stopped collecting NASCAR. Team Caliber made nice models.
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Pegers
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the car looks good.i never did get in to the racing stuff.
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Pegers
May 20 2018, 09:16 AM
the car looks good.i never did get in to the racing stuff.
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I miss the Team Caliber cars. I admit to still being a NASCAR fan, even though the team of one of my favorite drivers (Kevin Harvick) defected from Chevy to the blue oval last year. (Tony Stewart claimed that one of the reasons he wanted to own his own team was to get out of that foreign car and back into Chevys!). Harvick has proven he can win no matter what sticker is on thee nose. Anyhow, this Taurus still looks well executed ten years on. The ones they carry at WalMart today (I forget the brand name at the moment) are pretty well done, in my opinion.
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