kscarbel2 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Car & Driver / November 30, 2019 The Dale Jarrett UPS truck was built in 2006 by Mike Ryan, a stunt-vehicle builder, in less than three weeks. His team took a 23-foot-long 1990 UPS P-800 Package Car with more than 300,000 miles on the odometer, stripped it down completely, and transformed it with a fabricated roll cage, a TRD race engine, a custom transmission, racing suspension and shocks, a roll cage and racing gauges, and a racing harness, On December 4, that truck is going up for auction online by Iron Horse Auctions, with a minimum bid of $1 and a one-week period of bidding. UPS originally formulated the ad campaign featuring the truck to promote their NASCAR sponsorship, but as it caught on with fans, there was a push for the truck to appear on the track that became a running joke. UPS then shot another commercial of Dale Jarrett agreeing to race the truck to great acclaim, and he drove it around the track at the All-Star race, his final event before retiring in 2008. . 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex g Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I'd like to have had that truck when my kids were little and drop them off at school with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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