{"id":950825,"date":"2026-10-29T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950825\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:18:09","slug":"darrell-waltrip-gives-joey-logano-piece-of-nascar-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950825\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Waltrip Gives Joey Logano Piece of NASCAR History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip<\/a> has gifted Joey Logano a piece of NASCAR history that many would consider to be priceless.<\/p>\n

The Hall of Famer, making a rare public appearance after announcing he had been diagnosed with<\/a> Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD), used the 2026 Waltrip Brothers’ Champions Dinner to give Logano his No. 95 Mercury.<\/p>\n

“That car started out as a ’67 (Ford) Fairlane,” Waltrip said in a video filmed by Braking Bob<\/a>. “And Mario (Andretti) won the Daytona 500 in it. And then they brought it to Holman and Moody and made it into a ’69 Mercury.”<\/p>\n

Waltrip continued and explained that the same car went to Talladega Superspeedway and qualified on the outside pole. Though it didn’t finish the race due to an engine issue.<\/p>\n

The team ultimately took the ’69 Mercury back to the shop. They didn’t have plans for it until Waltrip came calling. The future Hall of Famer then agreed to pay $12,500 for the car, which he used during the early days of his Cup Series career.<\/p>\n

Waltrip then kept the Mercury his collection until giving it to Logano on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

“I know you love it, and I know you’d like to have it,” Waltrip told Logano on stage. “…So, I want you to have that car.”<\/p>\n

Logano is someone who has a sizable car collection ranging from custom classics to race cars and modern marvels. This is a driver who will cruise around in a custom No. 22 Mustang GTD on one day and then a massive car hauler the next.<\/p>\n

Logano will drive his Ford GT \u2014 also branded with the No. 22 \u2014 and then a Ford Model-T. He also has a C1 Corvette, a Fox Body Mustang, an amphibious Jeep, and a Hudson truck. He’s also previously showcased a 1946 Ford, a 1972 Cutlass, a Ferrari 512 TR, and a DMC DeLorean.<\/p>\n

Now, the three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion has a special Mercury that multiple legends of the sport have controlled during their Hall of Fame career, and it’s a vehicle that plans to keep for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip has gifted Joey Logano a piece of NASCAR history that many would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,179169,5793,634,8354,82,5794],"class_list":["post-950825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darrell-waltrip","tag-joey-logano","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-sports","tag-team-penske"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}