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Post by JC Motors on Sept 12, 2012 14:51:08 GMT -5
Anybody remember the NASCARS that were sponsored by WCW? Back in the 1990s Ted Turner when he owned WCW and Cartoon Network had sponsored a few NASCAR's I have two different diecasts of them. Also some of the wrestlers were featured on the cars.Here is what some of the NASCAR's looked like.  #23 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Lance Hooper  #81 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by the late Blaise Alexander.  #9 Ford Taurus driven by Jerry Nadeau There was a lot of other WCW sponsored cars as well. |
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Sept 12, 2012 14:56:49 GMT -5
There was a #23 car ran by Steve Grissom. I remember having a 1:64 scale version of that one.  There was also the same paint scheme on the 29 car at one point with WCW. The pic is the car I had at one point, given to me by my uncle. And Kyle Petty drove a #49 nWo car once. Here is a picture of that one.  |
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 12, 2012 14:58:48 GMT -5
There was a #23 car ran by Steve Grissom. I remember having a 1:64 scale version of that one. There was also the same paint scheme on the 29 car at one point with WCW. The pic is the car I had at one point, given to me by my uncle. And Kyle Petty drove a #49 nWo car once. Here is a picture of that one. Actually Steve Grissom drove the 29 car. Lance Hooper drove the 23 car. I couldn't find the picture of the one Kyle Petty drove so I'm glad you posted it. I think the NASCAR's helped lead to the downfall of WCW |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 15:01:47 GMT -5
How did they help lead to the downfall? WCW was a southern company, NASCAR was a southern sport. Good advertising on their part.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Sept 12, 2012 15:30:18 GMT -5
There was a #23 car ran by Steve Grissom. I remember having a 1:64 scale version of that one. There was also the same paint scheme on the 29 car at one point with WCW. The pic is the car I had at one point, given to me by my uncle. And Kyle Petty drove a #49 nWo car once. Here is a picture of that one. Actually Steve Grissom drove the 29 car. Lance Hooper drove the 23 car. I couldn't find the picture of the one Kyle Petty drove so I'm glad you posted it. I think the NASCAR's helped lead to the downfall of WCW Oh...crud you're right. My mistake, I had the 29 then because the card that came in the packaging with the car had Steve Grissom kneeling down next to it. |
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Post by jammer311 on Sept 12, 2012 16:11:59 GMT -5
There was a lot of WCW NASCARS I thought. Cause I have a toy WCW Sting one, and a WCW Halloween Havoc one on display.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 12, 2012 17:30:57 GMT -5
How did they help lead to the downfall? WCW was a southern company, NASCAR was a southern sport. Good advertising on their part. In my opinion Ted Turner blew money on NASCAR's whose driver's never won a race except for Jerry Nadeau who won 1 race in a WCW sponsored car. That money could have been used to hire better writers and maybe less forgettable talent. |
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 12, 2012 17:43:22 GMT -5
I had a couple of the 1:64 scale cars. I had the #29 Steve Grissom car, #49 Kyle Petty NWO car and then I also had a Black Slim Jim/Halloween Havoc car driven by Jason Keller. I think I had the #9 car but I cant remember.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 17:50:47 GMT -5
How did they help lead to the downfall? WCW was a southern company, NASCAR was a southern sport. Good advertising on their part. In my opinion Ted Turner blew money on NASCAR's whose driver's never won a race except for Jerry Nadeau who won 1 race in a WCW sponsored car. That money could have been used to hire better writers and maybe less forgettable talent. You realize getting a sponsorship on a big name team would be ridiculously expensive right? I'm sure they tried to get bigger names, but at least their brand was still out there. Not the worst thing they spent money on. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 17:54:50 GMT -5
not even close to the worst thing they spent $$ on.try Kiss concerts,the ludicrous amount of money to have the Kiss Demon as a wrestler.what they were paying ICP or a 100 other things.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 12, 2012 19:22:25 GMT -5
In my opinion Ted Turner blew money on NASCAR's whose driver's never won a race except for Jerry Nadeau who won 1 race in a WCW sponsored car. That money could have been used to hire better writers and maybe less forgettable talent. You realize getting a sponsorship on a big name team would be ridiculously expensive right? I'm sure they tried to get bigger names, but at least their brand was still out there. Not the worst thing they spent money on. It's not that bad compared to the United States Border Patrol sponsoring a NASCAR. |
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Post by jeffro2000 on Sept 12, 2012 19:54:42 GMT -5
I know they sponsored several different drives, and had numerous color schemes. I know most if not all were in the "Busch" series not the main cup series. I don't remember the NWO car, or atleast I don't think I do.
I do remember as a kid having a computer game called Nascar Racing 2, and I made an NWO car very similar to that though. I was badass.
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Post by specterkev on Sept 12, 2012 19:57:26 GMT -5
I liked it  I remember my brother and I flipped on once to see the car and not long afterwards the great american bash car crashed... I was like.. well.. I know what we'll be seeing on the WCW road Report.. (they used to show updates on the nascar for thos who did not know) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 20:17:22 GMT -5
I loved a lot of those #9 Melling cars. There's nothing as awesome as Lake Speed's 1998 pink and blue Cartoon Network Happy Birthday race car, though. Nadeau's Powder Puff Girls car was also intense. This one looks really pretty (yeah, I like pink, wanna fight about it?):  Also, Kyle Petty cuts a good 17 second promo at 1:20 here with the nWo. Lol. |
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 12, 2012 20:32:31 GMT -5
I liked it I remember my brother and I flipped on once to see the car and not long afterwards the great american bash car crashed... I was like.. well.. I know what we'll be seeing on the WCW road Report.. (they used to show updates on the nascar for thos who did not know) it sounds More like the Great American Crash car. |
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Post by threehgame on Sept 13, 2012 0:26:43 GMT -5
How did they help lead to the downfall? WCW was a southern company, NASCAR was a southern sport. Good advertising on their part. In my opinion Ted Turner blew money on NASCAR's whose driver's never won a race except for Jerry Nadeau who won 1 race in a WCW sponsored car. That money could have been used to hire better writers and maybe less forgettable talent. You do realize WCW paid Russo and Farrara more to jump to WCW than they put into those NASCAR teams, not to mention WCW had as much talent as WWF, they were just playing to a different crowd. For a while WCW managed to get their crowd plus the hipsters who tuned in to wrestling just because. Austin took the hipsters away and and WWF exploded. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 1:42:34 GMT -5
I do remember WCW and NASCAR.
They had monster trucks too.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 13, 2012 5:23:48 GMT -5
I do remember WCW and NASCAR. They had monster trucks too. I remember the Goldberg truck, which after WCW got bought by WWE the truck was known as Team Meents and is now known as Maximum Destruction |
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