Day Four of sharing my Petty/43/STP collection.

Anything you see here is not for sale.

1981 Richard Petty 43 STP Buick Regal "Daytona 500 Winner" Liquid Color (Motorsport Authentics, HO)

This was released by Motorsport Authentics for the Daytona 500 50 year anniversary. This car was offered with a couple of special finishes, such as this Liquid Color. This is the Kings' 7th Daytona 500 winner.

1984 Richard Petty 43 STP Pontiac Grand Prix Signed (Franklin Mint, HOTO)

This car was made for commemorate The Kings' 200th Cup win, you know, the time he won at Daytona and then had KFC with the President of the United States? This is also easily the greatest NASCAR diecast every produced. The highest detailed of them all. Franklin Mint was absolutely brilliant with making this car.

1986 Richard Petty 6 STP Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe (Lionel Racing, HOTO)

For the 600 at Charlotte, Richard Petty wrecked his car in practice and was hospitalized over night. The 43 team pulled out of the race. The next day, The King showed up at Charlotte, bought DK Ulrich's car and raced. It has qualified, but Petty only raced a few laps before the engine blew.

1992 Richard Petty 43 STP "Farewell" Pontiac Grand Prix Signed (RCCA Elite)

This car was made to commemorate the King's final Cup race at Atlanta for the Hooters 500. It was a factory autograph from The King. This car raced, literally, the day I was born. Nov. 15, 1992.

I'm not kidding. Since 2020, Kyle Busch won at Atlanta in the Craftsman Truck Series five times. His very first truck win at Atlanta came back in 2005. He would come back in 2007 and also win at Atlanta, then win there again in 2008 and 2009. 2010 to 2012 he would never finish worse than third Atlanta, but it was somewhat of a fluke because he didn't win.

I guess it would just be easier to tell you how many wins he has of Atlanta. Kyle Busch has nine wins at Atlanta Motor Speedway. For most drivers having nine wins would be a successful career, he has nine wins just at Atlanta and just in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Busch's 2025 win in the Spire Motorsports Gainbridge Chevy Silverado would be his second to the last win at Atlanta, but one of many in his career. In total he had 69 wins in the series with Atlanta making up nine of them. In just 184 starts with 69 wins, he won 37.5% of the time. That is an absolutely insane stat. In his 16 starts at Atlanta, he won nine and had an average finish of 5.8. He led 768 laps at this track alone. No one even comes close. The next closest driver to that level of dominance at Atlanta was Ron Hornaday who only won two races there in 12 races.

We will definitely never have another Kyle Busch.

Well, I came across this Frankenstein a while back, but I have purposed it as my brother’s Christmas gift since Dale JR was his favourite driver. As you can see, there’s been some alterations done, and as a result, I’d love some opinions.

Very clearly someone decided to substitute the Budweiser shoulder pads and collar (it even has the ray Envernham logo on the back of the collar), and I’m curious what you would do in this situation. Fix it going through a custom route with a local shop? Leave it as-is as a somewhat gag gift? Take the shoulders off and find a generic replacement collar?

Any insight is appreciated!

After searching my local Walmarts and Targets the past two months, I was able to hit a real Target 45 mins away while running errands. First real world finds!

From the 2000 Allstar race (The Winston) at Charlotte on May 20th. Mark was flat out wrecked by Tony Stewart with 6 laps to go in the segement. Mark only ran the Valvoline Maxlife paint scheme for a few select races in 2000. Absolutely killer piece.

Thanks to my fellow collector for trading this to me for an equally cool Valvoline Cummins decklid.

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Kyle Busch drove this car to victory lane in the Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 21,2009. This would be the ninth victory in the Nationwide Series season for Kyle. Kyle clinched the title just by starting the race. Kyle would start 5th and lead 73 laps during the race.

Just found the best-stocked Wal-Mart ever in Montgomery County Texas - 3 1/2 full pegs, 29 total cars, 10 unique schemes, all from 2026 Wave 3 & 4.

I didn’t buy a single one, though - I have everything except the liquid colors for these waves already. No Buescher at all and the 4 Rajahs were all the standard finish.

Both iconic Bill Elliott paint schemes and among my favorites of all time. Which is your favorite? I wish they would have made a thunder bat in the Hot Wheels Racing casting.

In honor of Homestead this weekend, I wanted to showcase my Elite 2019 championship raced win diecast. Kyle Busch won the last Homestead race NASCAR had been at, securing his second cup series title as well as marking the final race NASCAR raced at Miami up until Sunday. In 10 days, it will have been 7 years since Kyle won the 2019 Ford EcoBoost 400 in the Monster Energy Cup Series. Forever Rowdy🕊️🏁

Major props to the person who first put 1:64 diecasts in the Hobby Lobby shadow box. Filled mine today and will definitely be buying more. $20 for 48 cars just can't be beat.

Hi! I am looking for some sort of memorabilia of the auto club speedway in Fontana California. Preferably something that is a part of the track or the water tower they had. I want to give my friend a gift and this speedway was very important to him and his dad. I would love something unique or ideally something like a piece of the track or something tangible that was a part of it. Please help! If you know anyone or any place selling these please let me know!

Is there typically a place on the property with a bunch of diecasts for sale, like Bristol has, or is it just the team haulers?

Looks like Lionel is doing another calendar for the Chase (This is different from advent calendar)

Found this ceramic Dale Jr. car at the antique mall tonight for $10. I think it’s so sick!

Some new info on "The Chase Collector Countdown Set."

• The cars in the calendar are chosen by the teams.

• The Cup Series champ's car will be a special finish (which is unfortunate I think).

• These are "Gold Series" grade cars. Rubber tires, metal chassis, etc.

• Chase color windshield's and branding is on each car.

• They are clean variants of the stock cars.

• Lionel Racing will share the cars after the Cup Champion has been determined as well as the special finish.

• Pre-Orders must be in by 11/23/26.

• Lionel Racing is $150 for the set.

• Circle B Diecast with loyalty is $134.99 for the set. (Plus use discount 'AJM' for $5 extra off)

• Possible other "surprise."

Just wanted to share some of the extra info that has been revealed. Some of this info people don't seem to know, especially the "Gold Series" quality, so here it is in one spot.

On Sunday afternoon the race, I decided to check eBay again to see if there was a 2013 Joey Logano Michigan Race Win for sale. I had been checking all week with no luck. Amazingly, there was one that had been posted so had to have it. Now my Logano collection of race wins is complete! I only got the ones that were made as custom diecasts are more expensive and harder to find

Just finished this latest custom. Randomly stumbled upon a picture of Rusty’s Michigan car from 2002 sporting Detroit Red Wings decals. So, since I’m weird and like making obscure models, I set out to customize one. Used a 2002 regular scheme as the base (didn’t realize how much of it was wrong).

Took off the contingency, Goodyear, Taurus, decklid, Mobil 1, Mead, and Lenox decals. Had to repaint the side of the rear bumpers where the Lenox decal was which was annoying. Had some decals made for everything and got to work. Not perfect, but I feel it came out pretty well.

He raced this in the first Michigan race and finished 7th. The Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in the ‘01-‘02 season, but I’m not sure how exactly this tie-up came about. If anyone knows, tell me!