Offered at $125,000 through Collectors Garage, it was campaigned extensively in period, and is in original condition—including the tires.
Car of the Week: This Ford Galaxie 500 Is a Monster From the Glory Days of NASCAR. Now It’s Up for Grabs
Car of the Week: This Former Paratrooper’s 1975 Ford Restomod Project Will Be Auctioned on Veterans Dayraces about four to one, America’s favorite race series still attracted about 3.7 million fans who turned out last year., now in its 74th season, was founded in 1948 by an auto mechanic named Bill France. The rest, as they say, is history. The competition and the cars are almost as wild and woolly as they were back when the first sanctioned race was run in Daytona Beach, Fla., last century.
Shown here in the middle is the car’s first driver, Curtis Turner, who took first place in the 1966 Daytona-Permatex 300.After retirement, most race cars either become trainers, parts donors, or worse. But this Galaxie retains its original paint and interior, including the racing seat, Stewart-Warner gauges, seatbelts, asbestos flooring, and original tape on the steering wheel. It even still wears the racing tires from Donnie Allison’s 1969 run.
Hand-built by Ford, the car was later improved by Jim “Hammer” Mason, who worked with the marque’s engineers and brought his own fabrication and engine-building skills to play.Interesting too is that the fame of No. 87 continued to resonate long after its racing career had ended. Wearing its 1966 “Blanket Order Special” paint and graphics, Mason’s Galaxie inspired a Racing Collectables Legend Series model, released in 1991.
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