{"id":150845,"date":"2025-09-12T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:42:07","slug":"pettys-nascar-museum-contains-heartbreaking-piece-of-9-11-history-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150845\/","title":{"rendered":"Petty’s NASCAR museum contains heartbreaking piece of 9\/11 history – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9\/11, 2001, and tributes have rang out throughout the greater sporting world \u2014 Donald Trump will even attend <\/a>the New York Yankees<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, popular NASCAR<\/a> historian Brock Beard visited the Richard Petty Museum in North Carolina on Thursday and spotted an old diecast.<\/p>\n

Petty, one of the greatest drivers of all time<\/a>, collected a fair few interesting artifacts for his museum. Beard spotted an old diecast of an old car retrieved from the rubble of the Twin Towers on display in the museum.<\/p>\n

“An unexpected and profound exhibit I saw at the Petty Museum earlier this year was this 2000 John Andretti 1:64 scale diecast recovered from Ground Zero after the 9\/11 atrocity,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“The car’s remnants were delivered to Level Cross. Seeing the nearly complete damage to what was such a small and sturdy-built car (photo of mine for reference), I couldn’t help but wonder where it was that morning.<\/p>\n

Petty raced a long time ago, winning a record (since tied) seven Cup Series titles between 1964 and 1979. He boats a series of records, including for the most ever Cup Series wins.<\/p>\n

The 88-year-old is one of the most revered racing figures of all time, having been named the sport’s most popular driver on nine occasions. He earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and was elected into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9\/11, 2001, and tributes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[93044,93045,1960,425,93043,75371,99],"class_list":["post-150845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-9-11-history","tag-john-andretti-diecast","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-museum","tag-richard-petty","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}