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Mark started deep in the pack in 26th, finishing in 6th place. Just a year prior he had won at Sears Point in dominating fashion.

This is the only race I can find images with the same contingency sponsor orientation and even the riveting from the now missing splitter brace aligns perfectly from race imagery.

This paint scheme is really good. I actually like the increased white up front. It's just a really clean looking design!

Got lucky they had all these

This is my complete collection of my diecasts and im slowly adding more

Slide #9 are my favorites in my collection plus the mark martin viagra 1:24

Good thing is i’ll be in Charlotte this weekend so i’ll check there!

Here are my three Ty Dillon Petty-GMS customs with the newest one being his Allegiant Airlines paint scheme. It's such a simple design and I absolutely love it. I always wished it was produced as an official car. It was one of his three primary sponsors that year (Allegiant, Ferris, Black Rifle Coffee).

Im happy with how my detail painted interior of the Allegiant car turned out. It looks better than just an all black dash. It was built off an Authentics car, so I painted the interior black with all the wiring and tubes, seat, etc, painted uniquely.

In 2022, Ty Dillon had a best finish of 10th at Bristol dirt and an average finish of 22.6.

Mark was in at least three incidents and couldn't seem to catch a break. It's a shame too, he drove from 34th all the way into the top 10 but a lug nut issue on pit road and late spin set him back, he'd later finish 16th

I was waiting for and dreading this day of the festivities at the same time. This car represents a beautiful moment, but I still find sorrow in the fact that Rudd would never get to see victory lane at a Cup event after this.

The 2002 Dodge/Save Mart 350 was the 16th race of the 2002 Cup Season. For Rudd it was also an advantage. Victory is never guaranteed in the cup series, but Rudd is a pretty successful Cup series road course driver regardless of the composition of the rest of the field. Rudd had also been doing pretty well for RYR since he arrived, and proved behond a doubt that he could be competitive. He finished 5th in points (right behind Jarrett) in 2000. In 2001 he finished 4th in points (right in front of Jarrett), and in 2002 he would end up 10th but with a win to his name (that is the win we are talking about today specifically).

That day, Jeff Gordon lead most of the race, with the normal cast of characters normally filling out the top 10 of a 2002 cup weries event. Rudd was usually hovering between 5th and 10th for most of the race. Jerry Nadeau took the lead by not pitting under caution with 19 laps to go. Nadeau led 22 laps that day, driving for Petty Enterprises; however, with 2 laps to go his engine blew and he pulled off the track just past the start/finish line to avoid causing a caution. Ricky Rudd, had been the focus of the broadcast for the previous 10 laps since he had been slowly catching the Petty car a little more each each lap. Nadeau, relinquished the lead that day just as Darrell Waltrip commentated on the air, "Finally, it goes the other way for Rudd." Stewart moved into 2nd but was never closed enough with Rudd to try anything. Rudd crossed the finish line first and this time he got to keep his victory (see the previous 31 days of Rudd cars entry focusing on the Hendrick 5 cars for more details). The sad part is that this was also his final Cup win of his career. Not his final win in a race car, but we can all agree that a Cup win is special.

Rudd holds 23 career wins in the Cup series; twenty were done in the span from 1983 to 1998, where he won at least one race a season for sixteen consecutive seasons. The other 3 came from his time in the Havoline Machine and this is the final of those wins.

For me, it is obviously a bittersweet memory I replay often. Especially since I have a framed photo of Rudd driving the Sonoma win car (chassis number RYR24) on my (dog's) rec room wall, but remember it is not the destination that matters the most. Instead it is all about the Rudd's we collect along the way.

As for the scheme itself, between the 28 Red and Yellow Havoline machines, my personal loyalty will always be red. In fact, this car should have been red as well, if not for some corporate buggary that happened behind the scenes. The oil and gas giant Chevron had completed a take over of Texaco in 2001 and had no interest in Texaco as it competed with one of their main brand. They did want to keep Havoline going though, so for the 2002 season Texaco was removed from all 28 cars, and they ran as yellow Havoline machines for the season before leaving RYR altogether for the newly formed Everham stables.

I will say as a final side note. I miss the clear plastic "diecasts" and wish they made more. I really love this 2002 clear car and wish I had more.

We've had it about a year. Picked it up at a garage sale last summer because Nascar, but don't know a whole lot else about the truck. Google hasn't been helpful.

I just finished this using an old Brett Bodine kit from 1996 that I picked up at a model show. The scheme was made using decals from Porch Time and a Power Slide tire sheet. Everything turned out really nice, but unfortunately the 30 year old plastic had a pretty good upward warp on the left front.

I also included some companion pics with a fantasy build I recently did for a group build on the model cars sub. For that I put the 1998 scheme on a Tamiya Mustang GT kit. That one must also have been pretty good since I won my category, lol.

This is my contribution to Rudd Month! A month that honors Ricky Rudd!! In 2004 Ricky Rudd sported this Wonder Woman/DC Comics themed Ford Taurus. At the time, there was a big push on the latest DC cartoon and this was Wonder Woman's design. In fact, Hot Wheels had a Wonder Woman figurine that came with the car (which I don't have!). The paint job looks like a super combo of heroic proportions!

hi! i was thrift shopping and found this nascar jacket. the inside tag was jh design. i love this jacket for just wanted to know the general opinion. thanks :)

I was so shocked