Dale Jr. makes new addition to car yard ? Danica?s No. 10 car from Kansas
By Staff Report NASCAR.com May 21, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Photo credit: @DaleJr
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a collector of wrecked race cars. He keeps them in the woods of his property around Dirty Mo Acres.
On Sunday morning, Earnhardt tweeted about his latest addition ? the No. 10 Ford driven by Danica Patrick at Kansas in the Go Bowling 400. Patrick was involved in a three-car wreck on Lap 199 that involved Joey Logano and Aric Almirola in last weekend?s race.
The incident left Almirola sidelined for at least the next two months with a fracture of of his T5 vertebrae suffered in the accident.
On why he collects wrecked race cars, Earnhardt told ESPN?s ?SportsCenter? in 2014 that ?when we would build a car, you?d put so much into that one vehicle. Then when you would destroy it, or it was beyond repair, I just couldn?t bring myself to throw it away because we had spent so much money on it. So I started throwing them in the woods out behind the house, and we?ve got around probably 25 to 30 cars out there just from JR Motorsports alone.
?I started getting other cars like the Juan (Pablo) Montoya car that was in the Daytona (500 in 2012) accident with the jet dryer, stuff like that. Cars that have some sort of neat story behind them so we started getting those cars as well. I don?t pay for them or anything. I just call up the owner and see if they?re willing to give them up.?
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