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Car Of The Day: June 8, 2017; Hasbro Winner's Circle's 1999 Ford Taurus NASCAR (Dale Jarrett)
Topic Started: Jun 8 2017, 10:07 PM (266 Views)
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Today's Car Of The Day comes from be77bt's collection and is Hasbro Winner's Circle's 1999 Ford Taurus NASCAR stock car (Dale Jarrett).

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Dale Arnold Jarrett (born November 26, 1956) is a former American race car driver and current sports commentator known for winning the Daytona 500 three times (in 1993, 1996, and 2000) and winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship in 1999. He is the son of 2-time Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett, younger brother of Glenn Jarrett, father of former driver Jason Jarrett, and cousin of Todd Jarrett. In 2007, Jarrett joined the ESPN/ABC broadcasting team as an announcer in select Nationwide Series races. In 2008, after retiring from driving following the 2008 Food City 500, he joined ESPN permanently as the lead racing analyst replacing Rusty Wallace. In 2015, Jarrett will be part of the NBC Sports Broadcasting Crew for NASCAR events. He was inducted in the 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.


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For more information and pictures of the real car, please visit: Dale Jarrett

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Drive that truck, Dale.

I know we ran another blue COTD from Hasbro earlier this year that was quite popular. Can Mr. Dale Jarrett deliver the same kind of performance in the COTD polls as he did on the track back in the '90s?

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Despite the win, Jarrett left Wood Brothers to drive the No. 18 Interstate Batteries-sponsored Chevrolet for the fledgling Joe Gibbs Racing team. In their first year of competition, Jarrett had two Top 5's but dropped to 19th in points.

In 1993, Jarrett won the Daytona 500 after battling Dale Earnhardt (commonly referred to as "The Dale and Dale Show"). While Jarrett did not win again that season, he had a total of 13 Top 5's and finished fourth in the final standings. During the spring race at Bristol, Jarrett threw his helmet at the No. 90 car of Bobby Hillin Jr who crashed Jarrett while been lapped. The next season, Jarrett won the Mello Yello 500, but chose to step down from the Gibbs organization at the end of the season.

Jarrett signed to drive for Robert Yates in 1995, piloting the No. 28 Texaco-sponsored Ford in place of an injured Ernie Irvan at the Winston Cup level. His Busch Series team also made the switch to Ford as well. With engines provided by Yates and sponsorship from Mac Tools, Jarrett scored four Busch Series wins during the season. However, only three of the wins counted. His win at Michigan was disqualified due to an unapproved engine part.

He won his first Cup race for Yates at Pocono Raceway and finished 13th in the final standings. When it was announced Irvan (who had returned toward the end of the year in a Texaco Havoline-sponsored Yates car numbered 88) would return to the 28 after a year-long absence due to injuries, Yates had planned to help Jarrett compete in his own team with Hooters sponsorship. The deal fell through, however, and Yates promoted the 88 car to full-time in the Winston Cup Series with Ford assuming sponsorship through its Quality Care Service and Ford Credit divisions. In 1996, Jarrett won the Daytona 500 for a second time, and finished in the Top 2 in each of the first three races of the season. He also won the Coca-Cola 600 and the Brickyard 400 and finished third in the final point standings behind Hendrick Motorsports teammates Terry Labonte and Jeff Gordon. Jarrett's kissing of the bricks at Indianapolis started a tradition that has been used by every NASCAR team at the race since then and in the Indianapolis 500 since 2003.

The following season, he won a career-best seven races but lost the championship to Jeff Gordon by fourteen points, who by Jarrett's own admission on August 25, 2012, was "eleven hundred times the driver I ever dreamed of being".

In 1998, Jarrett won three races, and finished second in the last two races of the year, ending up third in the final point standings to Jeff Gordon, despite suffering gallbladder problems, which made him miss the exhibition race in Japan. After an offseason surgery, Jarrett returned in 1999 and took the points lead after his first win of the season at the Pontiac Excitement 400 and held it for the rest of the season, when he won his the Winston Cup title by 201 points over Bobby Labonte with four wins - Richmond, Michigan, Daytona, and Indianapolis. He also retired from the Busch Series to become a part-time owner, partnering with National Football League quarterback Brett Favre to field the No. 11 Rayovac-sponsored Ford for his son Jason, Yates teammate Kenny Irwin, Jr., and Steve Grissom. He had 11 wins in the Busch Series when he retired.


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I still yearn for a street version of this oval-headlight generation of Taurus. Maybe someone, someday will show some 1/64 attention to the different Taurus SHO generations. I'm not holding my breath, but I still hope to see it happen one day. In the meantime, the NASCAR versions have to fill the void.
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i am learning how many different drivers used the same number at different times.
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You know, I think I have a gold Mark Martin/Valvoline version of this casting that I got years ago from NAPA. I can remember Dale Jarrett using the No. 88 years before Earnhardt.
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Dean-o-mite
Jun 8 2017, 11:23 PM
I still yearn for a street version of this oval-headlight generation of Taurus. Maybe someone, someday will show some 1/64 attention to the different Taurus SHO generations. I'm not holding my breath, but I still hope to see it happen one day. In the meantime, the NASCAR versions have to fill the void.
You just need to convince someone in Hollywood to make it the star car in an upcoming TV series or major motion picture. Then GreenLight will undoubtedly make one... ;)
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Swifty
Jun 9 2017, 09:06 PM
Dean-o-mite
Jun 8 2017, 11:23 PM
I still yearn for a street version of this oval-headlight generation of Taurus. Maybe someone, someday will show some 1/64 attention to the different Taurus SHO generations. I'm not holding my breath, but I still hope to see it happen one day. In the meantime, the NASCAR versions have to fill the void.
You just need to convince someone in Hollywood to make it the star car in an upcoming TV series or major motion picture. Then GreenLight will undoubtedly make one... ;)
This brings a tear to my eye, as the 1/64 Pontiac Aztek from Breaking Bad appears to have been completely cancelled, leaving only the 1/43 available. Ugg.
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Dean-o-mite
Jun 10 2017, 01:38 PM
Swifty
Jun 9 2017, 09:06 PM
Dean-o-mite
Jun 8 2017, 11:23 PM
I still yearn for a street version of this oval-headlight generation of Taurus. Maybe someone, someday will show some 1/64 attention to the different Taurus SHO generations. I'm not holding my breath, but I still hope to see it happen one day. In the meantime, the NASCAR versions have to fill the void.
You just need to convince someone in Hollywood to make it the star car in an upcoming TV series or major motion picture. Then GreenLight will undoubtedly make one... ;)
This brings a tear to my eye, as the 1/64 Pontiac Aztek from Breaking Bad appears to have been completely cancelled, leaving only the 1/43 available. Ugg.
Was there an official announcement of some sort, or are you basing this on the fact we've yet to see a prototype?
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