If you point to any car and say that there is any kind of tie to Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr. you can bet that any NASCAR fan is giving you their full and undivided attention. Junior Johnson is NASCAR, the moonshiner-turned-racer who could wing whatever car he was driving on whatever surface you threw him on, the team owner that oversaw a laundry list of drivers over decades of racing, and the good ol’ boy personality who could both be the perfect Southern gentleman and a cunning adversary. In 1986 Johnson was running a three-car team with drivers Davey Allison, Neil Bonnett and Darrel Waltrip, and this Chevrolet Monte Carlo was Waltrip’s super speedway car. After the car was located and restored by Rhine Enterprises, it was shown to Junior Johnson, who last set eyes on the car in 1989, when he loaned the ARCA team who then owned the car a carburetor to run at Daytona. Looking at the lines of the car, the Monte Carlo straddles the fine line between a stock-sourced car and a silhouette race car about as perfectly as one can, and seeing Junior’s reactions as he sees his old car for the first time in years just puts a smile on your face.
that was very cool. Lucky find.
Junior seems like a genuine good old boy.
Wasn’t Davey Allison driving a TBird in 86? Or was this just before that?
this car was owned by classic car barn.com out of Doylestown Pennsylvania in 2000 these good ol boys ran this car in a hot rod event at Maple Grove Raceway the Hot Rod Power fest possibly the only guys to drag race with a NASCAR it was a lot of fun to see this happen.
It was also drag raced at Super Chevy Maple Grove 2001.