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Cup10s Earnhardt Paint Schemes
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- Owner: Robert Vining
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| 1980 #2 Mike Curb-Hodgon posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 04:16 PM | 215 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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This 1980 Olds 442 was raced only on super speedways in 1980, the year Dale Won his first of seven stock car series championships. Dale piloted this Rod Osterlund car (sponsored by Mike Curb/Hodgdon) in the firecrackers 400 in 1979 (race 20 at Talladega), his rookie season, finishing third. Mike Curb is questionably well known (at least) for the song "Burning Bridges", the title theme for the film Kelly's Heroes, recorded under the label Mike Curb Congregation. This yellow and blue paint scheme is similar to the 80 Monte Carlo with the difference in the Wrangler sponsorship not showing and the blue hood work being straight and not angled. The spoiler is apparent as is the chrome front bumper. This was the only Oldsmobile that Dale drove in his Winston Cup Career. The sole difference between this and the 1979-80 un sponsored incarnation is the spoiler color and the presence of the Mike Curb sponsorship.
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| 1979 #2 Rod Osterlund Ride posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 04:13 PM | 216 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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This car (owner Rod Osterlund) brought Dale his first career Winston Cup win, the Southeastern 500 at the Bristol International Raceway on April 1, 1979, in his 16th career start. In his first full-time NASCAR cup season, Earnhardt earned Rookie of the year honours, beating out the likes of Millikan and Terry Labonte, and finished 7th in points, 1081 points behind champion Richard Petty. He claimed four poles in twenty-seven starts and gathered eleven top 5's and seventeen top 10's. The determined Earnhardt's first win was only his third race working with Jake Elder. The young intimidator led in sixteen races, including the Daytona 500 where he finished 8th.The yellow and blue paint scheme is similar to the 80 Monte Carlo with the difference in the Wrangler sponsorship not showing and the Crane Cams logo is on the angle frame.
This year, David Pearson took over in the #2 car after Dale was injured at Pocono. He drove it for something like 4 or 5 races. He did so well in it (finished second once and won a race also) that Dale was beginning to get worried that he may not have a ride. |
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| 1978 #96 posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 04:11 PM | 203 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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1978 Cardinal Tractor. Not clear whether or not this predated the Rod Osterlund sponsored #98. As the #98 is reported as Dale's 5th car and the Belden #19 the 4th, that suggests the #96 to be Dale's 6th car. However, according to Dale Cline in "Remembering Dale Earnhardt", Dale drove in 3 races in 1978 for Will Cronkrite in a Bud Moore car, starting with the World 600 in Charlotte, prior to joining with Rod Osterlund for his rookie season. That should make the Torino his 5th NASCAR ride. This suggested that the vehicle, along with its make, uncommon to the cup, was a Busch (Grand National) car only, which would then support the #98 as the 5th Cup car.
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| 1978 #98 Rod Osterlund Ride posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 04:08 PM | 212 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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This vehicle theoretically launched Dale's career in the stock car series. This was an un-sponsored car owned by Rod Osterlund, which Dale drove in his 6th NASCAR event (actually his 6th ride and 9th start) at Atlanta (Race 29). Rumors from DEI itself suggest that Dale only drove this in the Busch series, however, Dale Cline in "Remembering Dale Earnhardt" suggests otherwise. This car was driven only once in the last race of the season at Atlanta. Dale qualified 10th, lost a lap twice, and climbed back up to finish 4th out of 6 lead lap cars, against the likes of Darryl Waltrip and Cale Yarborough.
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| 1977 #19 Beldon Asphalt posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 03:12 PM | 185 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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From 1976-79 Earnhardt drove in eight Winston Cup races altogether. Sponsors agreed that he was an excellent driver. He possessed the natural grit and calm demeanor to be a champion driver. Earnhardt was fearless, in fact, to a fault. He crashed and flipped cars as if they were old soda pop cans. As a result his potential went largely untapped because he could not find sponsors willing to subsidize the cost of repairing his cars.
With the failure of his second marriage in 1977 he returned home briefly and lived with his mother. He stopped racing on the asphalt circuit and drove the dirt road tracks again. He worked for Chrysler Motors, testing so-called kit cars. |
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| 1976 #77 Hy-Gain posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 03:07 PM | 232 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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Through 1976 and 1977 Dale continued Sportsman racing while begging the occasional Winston Cup ride. Dale never won any track championships, he moved around too much. He just raced wherever he felt good about going.
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| 1976 #30 Army Chevelle posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 02:59 PM | 227 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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In 1976, Dale Earnhardt drove two different cars, the Hy-Gain #77 and the Army #30 Malibu. This car looked great in the orange paint scheme with the blue numbers and lettering! Throughout his career, Dale Earnhardt had some interesting paint schemes and this is definitely one of them!
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| 1975 Dodge 10,000 RPM Speed Equipment posted by Cayce Rogers | 06/12/10, 02:53 PM | 205 | 4.96 (2 votes) | |
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Earnhardt began his Winston Cup career in 1975, making his first start at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600. Earnhardt drove an Ed Negre Dodge Charger(#8) and finished 22nd in the race, one place ahead of his future car owner, Richard Childress.
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